The mobilization order for war has been issued with a quick horse.
Lingzhou mobilized quickly.
Not only did the five unified military offices in Lingzhou receive mobilization orders, but the local and inland government troops stationed in Lingzhou also received military orders.
There are also local united soldiers and Tibetan soldiers in the city.
"Since the founding of our country in Lingzhou, a total of five unified army offices have been established, with a total of 4,640 soldiers. Previously, a government office was also established in Yanzhou."
These Lingzhou soldiers were also the cornerstone of Lingwu. Those selected were originally from the homes of powerful landlords, and after being selected, they were all granted a hundred acres of military land.
However, Lingzhou has been under great military pressure in recent years, so Lingzhou's local soldiers basically do not go to Chang'an, but are divided into five groups to garrison on the fortress.
There are probably a thousand soldiers from the mainland to guard the city, but Lingzhou is the front line, and a thousand frontier soldiers are not enough. Therefore, there are about 5,000 soldiers from the mainland in Lingzhou for a long time, from Guanzhong to Longyou and even to Shannan in Henan.
He was transferred from the ground to be on duty.
"Originally, the garrison troops were rotated on duty, and the period was usually changed once a year. However, in recent years, the Turks have repeatedly invaded in large numbers, so the border troops were not allowed to postpone the rotation. They changed the rotation to three years, but they failed to do so after the three years expired.
On the other hand, some of the border troops now are actually transferred from the mainland and have been on guard duty for five years and have not yet returned home."
They agreed to be on duty for one year, but ended up working for five years without being able to go home. Everyone would probably collapse.
Therefore, there have been cases of soldiers escaping in Lingzhou before.
Later, Li Daozong was appointed as the governor, and the treatment of border soldiers was strengthened here, mainly to let them participate in the smuggling trade and share the benefits.
Slave catching, salt trading, horse trading, even private casting, etc., the border army, the government soldiers, Tuanjie, the city side, as well as the officials, and even the children, all shared the benefits.
Li Daozong was very impressive. Originally, Lingzhou was quite unstable at that time, with soldiers escaping from time to time, and logistical supplies were unstable. Everyone was complaining, and the Turks and Liang divisions kept coming to attack. Everyone was miserable.
But later, under the leadership of Li Daozong, they relied on their own efforts, and each of them started to get rich. From the governor to joining the army and then commanding the army, captain, and even ordinary frontier soldiers, they had stable income, and everyone was no longer in a hurry.
Gone home.
So even if one year turns into three years, and three years turns into five years, the morale of the soldiers in Lingzhou is quite stable, all because of this. They eat and drink well here, and even make a lot of money, so why are they rushing home?
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Even if you can't go home, you can send money home.
If you can't go home to visit your relatives, you can let your wife and children come over to visit and reunite.
Wu Huaiyu had previously discovered that Lingzhou had a tendency to become a vassal town, and it was precisely because of these discoveries.
The soldiers here in Lingzhou originally had a complex and diverse composition, including local government soldiers, rotating government soldiers from the interior, local united soldiers, city-side and Tibetan soldiers, etc. However, they turned out to be a very harmonious group. There were not so many local and foreign soldiers.
Han people and Hu people.
It is common interests that bind them together.
The government troops transferred from the mainland did not change their defenses for a long time, which made them more localized and better understood.
"This is a hidden danger."
Yang Gongren couldn't help but frown after hearing Wu Huaiyu's explanation.
The combination of local powerful people and these military groups is very scary. Even if there is no chaos now, it does not mean that there will not be chaos in the future.
"I suggest that we take advantage of the gathering of soldiers from other prefectures and mobilize these soldiers in the name of the summer expedition to Liang, and then make some arrangements."
"specific?"
"First, let's give them rewards and subsidies for the five thousand soldiers who were transferred from the mainland for defense, and end their defense. They would have been rotated back to rest a long time ago,"
"I have already asked the saint for permission to deploy new soldiers from the mainland to replace the defense."
There were more than 600 military mansions in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, with a total of more than 600,000 soldiers, half of which were in the Guanzhong area. This was the strategy of guarding the internal weakness and the external weakness, strong branches and weak branches.
Although Lingyan is also in Guanzhong, it is a peripheral fortress. There were only five unified army mansions in the past, and Yanzhou only had one.
Based on the household registration in Guanzhong at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was basically one soldier per household and a half. However, in fact, at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the household registration was greatly reduced, but the actual population was not reduced that much. It was just that the powerful
The government took the opportunity to turn many refugees into unregistered tenants or even slaves.
For example, before Lingzhou, the number of official household registrations was very small, just a few thousand households, but there were more than 4,000 soldiers, basically one per household.
In fact, Lingzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, where industry and commerce are prosperous, the population is large, and agriculture is also very developed.
Just as there are six thousand in the Tu Tuan, there are still four thousand in the city.
These are all false household registrations.
"Now that these border troops are being rotated, are they willing to go back?"
"Many people traveled thousands of miles away from their hometowns to guard the border. What was originally said was a year, but ended up not being able to rotate for three to five years. I believe that the vast majority of people still want to go home, but they were unable to go back due to special circumstances in the past. Later, there were also
I got some benefits, so I stayed.
Now to get them back, the key is to compensate them."
"We confiscated Peng Han and others before, and also obtained a large amount of money, silk, etc. In addition, the Lingzhou government treasury is quite full, so we can directly use money and food to reward and subsidize everyone."
Wu Huaiyu had already thought about the subsidy plan. Based on the time he was stationed in Lingzhou, he would subsidize one stone of grain every month, and then half a bolt of silk every month, and finally pay the annual travel expenses.
For example, a mainland soldier who has overdue service and guarded the border in Lingzhou for five years can receive a subsidy of 60 shi of millet, 30 bolts of silk, plus 5,000 yen for travel expenses.
"Give this much?"
"If you really think about it, it's actually not much. In the early years of the Sui Dynasty, the border garrison troops had to give them twelve stones of millet and seven bolts of silk for food and clothing a year to support their families.
Although the garrison soldiers from the mainland in Lingzhou had received some food and clothing before, and even earned some extra money, they had indeed served for a long time overdue, so they should be given some subsidies, not to mention that Mr. Yang was also on duty.
You know, before they were in Lingzhou, they participated in various gray industries and made a lot of profits. Now that they are allowed to go home, they have to make some compensation."
"In addition to this subsidy from the government, my plan is to ask Cao Liu and others to give them ashes, and then give some money to the governor's office, and we will distribute it to the soldiers returning home."
This money is equivalent to their share of the money, which is considered a withdrawal of shares.
Anyway, we have to make these five thousand mainland soldiers go home happily and willingly, and even let them think of the Governor's Mansion and the good of the imperial court.
You can't be resentful, let alone have no money for travel, and do some theft and robbery along the way. That will have a bad impact.
"The newly arrived soldiers from the mainland will guard the border with peace of mind from now on. After one year, they will change their defense. They will not be allowed to participate in smuggling and other matters again."
"What about the local government soldiers? I heard that the government soldiers from the six local unified military offices are also deeply involved."
"For the local soldiers, this is what I plan to do. We have just recovered a large amount of land in our hands. I plan to set aside some of it and give it to the soldiers of Lingyan. Many of the soldiers have honors, but this
For several years, the land has not been divided into numbers. Now that I have the land in my hand, I can give all the land I owe.
In addition, each of the Fu soldiers will be allocated one to twenty acres of land. In addition, if the Fu soldiers' families have mature men or middle-aged men over the age of sixteen, if they have not been allocated land yet, priority can be given to them.
If the land is sufficient, you can allocate one hundred acres according to the land equalization order, and the middle man will be given half the full share. If the land is insufficient, you can get a smaller share.
Allocating land to the fields was a compensation reward for the local soldiers.
And Unity, Chengbang, can also make up for it.
The exchange for these compensations is that you will quit smuggling and other gray goods in the future and serve as a soldier with peace of mind. As for whether you farm or do small business in your spare time, the court has no control over it.
However, officers and soldiers are no longer allowed to engage in smuggling and other activities while on duty.
"In addition, I plan to allocate some more land and pasture to the Tongjun Mansion or the Unity Camp as military farmland. They can plant it themselves, hire people, or rent it out, and the land rent income can also be used as military land.
Welfare for the regiment.”
In the past, the land in Lingzhou was occupied by local snakes headed by six powerful people, as well as Li Daozong and other senior officials. They used various excuses to seize and occupy the land. The number of household registrations in Lingzhou was always low and seriously inconsistent with the actual population.
Too many people are attached to the powerful names of these officials and become their tenants or even slaves.
Now there is a lot of land in the Dudu's Mansion, both the land that Li Daozong and others vacated from the Qing Dynasty, and the land that was confiscated by powerful people such as Peng Han and others. There is a lot of land.
If these lands just fall into the hands of powerful officials, then nothing will change. Wu Huaiyu still hopes to make some changes, allocate more land to the soldiers, and even allocate land to the landless people who have settled down, so that the country can have more self-cultivators.
People have land in their hands, which will be beneficial to the Tang Dynasty in the long run.
"With proper rectification, Lingzhou will still be stable."
Yang Gongren accepted these suggestions from Wu Huaiyu.
As a result, the eight thousand elite soldiers of Xiayan in Qinghui served as a solid backing. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the Lingzhou Dudu Mansion issued a war mobilization order.
The border soldiers and government soldiers gathered from various places did not receive military orders to attack, but instead received orders to reorganize and disband one after another.
Facing the generous compensation, these Lingzhou soldiers were unexpectedly surprised.
Being able to go home, there is also a large amount of compensation. The inland soldiers who have stayed in Lingzhou for the longest time have not changed defenses for five years. Now they can go home immediately, and they can also receive sixty stones of millet, thirty bolts of silk and five pieces of silk.
A subsidy of thousands of dollars.
There are even undisclosed benefits. Cao Liu and others also want to give them a sum of labor, which is actually the business they participated in before.
Even the soldiers who have stayed in the mainland for three years can get thirty-six stones of millet, eighteen bolts of silk, three thousand yuan of subsidies from the governor's government this time, as well as a small welfare.
For everyone, it is really hard to refuse.
Although there are some people who are unhappy, those who are unhappy are mainly the middle and upper-level officers. They get the most from smuggling and other businesses, and they have a steady stream of profits.
But now that the soldiers are leaving, of course the officers are going back and forth as well.
However, before these people had time to react, Yang Gongren and Wu Huaiyu first gathered all the officers above the head of the team together. One was a bad guy and the other was a bad guy. Anyway, they would either go home with a generous subsidy, or they might face prosecution for illegal and criminal acts.
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Moreover, no matter what choice these people make, they will have no chance to return to their own troops and will be directly led back to the mainland.
Cao Liu and others had to pay a lot of money, but they had no choice.
There are more than 5,000 local soldiers, 6,000 united, and 4,000 city guards. With subsidies, they can also divide the fields and replenish the land, which is a bit overjoyed.
Early May.
After the mobilization order was issued, the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion sent five thousand inland soldiers back first, and sent them home without waiting for the inland soldiers to change defenses to arrive.
Immediately afterwards, all Lingzhou officers came to make a major defense adjustment.
Yang and Wu used the wartime camp structure as the camp, and reorganized more than 10,000 soldiers from the four governors of Ling, Qing, Hui, and Xia into Xiangying. Officers at all levels were also reorganized. This was also the case for the imperial court's previous expeditions.
customs in war,
Soldiers from various prefectures gathered together, each guard prefecture sent generals, and then the generals reorganized into battalions and went out to fight.
After the war, he will return to his hometown and return to the defense.
The Lingwu Legion has a total of 24,000 troops, including 6,000 newly transferred soldiers from the mainland to guard the border, 6,000 local soldiers from Lingyan, and then 8,000 Ling and Yantuan soldiers, plus 4,000 city and Tibetan soldiers.
The gathering of so many people was quite astonishing.
Su Lie even thought that with so many soldiers, he could attack Shuofangliang's headquarters directly.
Of course, neither Wu Huaiyu nor Yang Gongren had that plan. This gathering was at best an exercise, and the main purpose was to solve some hidden dangers of the Lingzhou army.
The purpose is to first replace the long-standing imperial troops in the interior with defensive troops, and then take the opportunity to adjust the local imperial troops and other generals.
Twenty-four thousand people were organized into seven armies as usual.
The central army and the front and rear armies will go to the Puppet Liang territory to launch a summer offensive, mainly to destroy crops and pastures, harass and rob people, and train troops by the way.
The four armies, one on the left, two on the left and one on the right, will be stationed in the three prefectures of Ling, Yan and You. They are mainly responsible for city defense and border defense tasks, guarding the Great Wall, prefectures and counties, and beacon forts to guard against Turks.
The four armies on the left and right sides, each with 2,600 troops and a total of 10,400 men, are responsible for staying behind and garrisoning.
The central army has 6,000 men, and the left and right Yuhou troops have 3,800 men each.
Yang Gongren, the governor of Lingzhou and the commander-in-chief of the march of Lingwudao, led the central army, Shi Wuhuaiyu, the governor-general and commander of the battalion, commanded the left wing, and Sima Sulie of Yanzhou commanded the right wing.
Liu Lan became Wu Huaiyu's deputy, and Niu Jianwu became Su Lie's deputy.
In the Dudu Mansion, Lu Huairang, the camp commander, was responsible for staying in Lingzhou.
After the overall plan was arranged, for several days in a row, I was busy sending money to send the soldiers home, and allocating and granting land to the local soldiers.
Reorganize the army, deploy officers, and mobilize money, food and weapons.
busy,
Extremely busy.
Everyone is busy up and down.
Fortunately, I stayed busy and stayed organized.
Various measures were put in place, and there were no disturbances. Most of the mainland soldiers went home happily after receiving their rewards.
Since there was a lot of money for millet and silk, they could choose to carry it back with their own horses and mules, hire someone to transport it back, or, more conveniently, take the note and go to Chang'an or their hometown to pick it up.
Many soldiers don't really believe this. Although they say there is no need to worry, most soldiers would rather exchange the grain for money and silk in Lingzhou, or exchange it for easy-to-carry commodities such as cattle, horses, mules, salt, slaves, etc., and take them home.
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If you change it to horses, slaves, or spices, gold and silver are actually the lightest and easiest to carry. Of course, there are certain risks. If you run away or die or get sick along the way, you will still lose money. The spices, gold and silver will also increase.
fall.
Many officers were actually unwilling, but they were detained in the military camp by Wu Huaiyu and others. When all their soldiers left, they became mere commanders. At this time, they had no other ideas and had to lead their own army.
Part of it, and then took the wealth accumulated in Lingzhou over the years and returned to the original military government in the mainland to resume his duties.
Every day, large groups of soldiers took the roads opened by the Governor's Palace, driving cattle and horses or leading slaves, carrying gold, silver, money and silk, and drove into the interior in groups. Everyone was very happy.
The local soldiers and local troops in Lingzhou were all smiling from ear to ear when they looked at the allocated fields.
Regardless of whether they were from the mainland or from the local government, although most of them were from good families with better conditions, the compensation given by Wu Huaiyu was indeed quite substantial, which was enough to satisfy everyone.
After this hectic first half of the year was over, the three troops of Lingwu Dao finally vowed to go out for battle.
Yang Gongren once again put on the Mingguang Armor. He looked at this majestic and high-spirited army of kings and said to Huaiyu with emotion, "The military town that was gathered in Lingzhou in ten years, Erlang dismantled them in half a month.
There hasn't been any fighting yet, and the morale of this new spiritual army is even higher."
"If you have enough food and pay, strong armor and sharp weapons, and no worries, your morale will naturally be high."
When Li Daozong guarded Lingzhou for five years, he took a different path, but now Wu Huaiyu and the others are in charge of Lingwu, but they are taking a different path.
No one is right or wrong, it’s just that the situations and situations in different periods have different responses.
In fact, Wu Huaiyu now admires Li Daozong for being able to build Lingzhou into such a united and solid place, even when the world was still in chaos and the situation in Lingwu was so critical, and even the industry and commerce could prosper.
It's just that the situation is different now, and the old routine is no longer appropriate or even allowed.
