Nine hundred and seventy-first chapter of the footsteps of war (2)
Starting from April in summer, people in Jinyang and Taiyuan have obviously smelled an unusual smell.
On the wide galloping road, heavy-laden carriages carrying cartloads of corn and wheat flour meandered forward along the straight road opened by Qin Shihuang.
Sometimes, from morning to night, the flow of transport vehicles passing through the road never stops.
At the same time, county soldiers stationed in these areas also mobilized and joined the team to transport food.
In some areas, there were even hundreds or even thousands of heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages or ox-carts, blocking the entire track.
Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet.
The powerful people in Daibei were the first to react.
They hurriedly wrote letters to recall their nephews who were studying abroad or traveling around the world.
At the same time, the storage at home was opened.
Armor and weapons that had been dusty for a long time were taken out.
Then it was distributed to retainers and soldiers.
Preparing for war started with the local powerful.
In Longyou County, in Dai County, in Shang County, in Yunzhong County, in these rural pavilions in the north.
One by one, the soldiers, retainers, and nephews of famous local families have all prepared their troops and even started training.
In these places, the powerful families, nobles, and official families have sufficient conditions for their children, nephews, descendants, and family retainers to receive sufficient and excellent military training.
However, for a long time, the Han government in this area also implemented the policy of all people being soldiers.
Under normal circumstances, the powerful nobles and officials in these areas are inextricably linked to the military.
Either someone in their family is currently serving in a military unit with outstanding achievements, or their ancestors once served in a military unit with outstanding achievements.
For them, riding horses and archery, practicing martial arts, and stockpiling weapons are just like the landowners of Qilu, who are good at reading documents, dancing with long sleeves, and annexing land. It is their natural instinct and survival skills.
Because, in these places.
The benefits gained from annexing land, enslaving and exploiting neighbors are far less than joining the army and making meritorious deeds.
In these places, almost 70% of the powerful landowners and noble families obtained their status, wealth, power and even land from their enemies through war.
As for exploiting neighbors?
Tell the truth.
Take Shangjun as an example...
The average yield per mu of land is only two dan, and in many places, it is only one and a half dan. It is a poor county full of barren mountains, bad soil, and barren mountains and remote areas.
How much money can be made by exploiting farmers?
Moreover, the folk customs in these places are fierce, and the people are mostly impassioned and passionate warriors.
These are the places where revanchism and blood revenge are strongest.
Landlords, if they dare to exploit their neighbors unscrupulously, they will eat and drink their fellow villagers.
There is no need for Chang'an to send a censor down.
The local people took care of those fools themselves!
The Northland is powerful, these four words.
Not just an adjective, but a verb.
Strong and powerful, not only has a smart brain, but also has well-developed muscles!
To the wealthy powerful people in the North, land rent from tenant farmers was just a small amount of money.
Avoid it if you can.
What they need is the loyalty and support of the tenants, as well as the recognition and approval of the family.
Just like the famous Li Guang brothers.
Their family was in Chengji, and they were already one of the top big families long before Li Guang became famous.
It has thousands of hectares of fertile land and numerous tenants.
However, in the past dynasties, the land rent paid by the Li family to its tenants was so small that Qilu landowners would hit the wall.
The rent and tax for tenants under the name of the Li family is only 50%!
It seems very high!
But in fact, the Li family was responsible for the oral taxes, corvées, and exorbitant taxes on these tenants.
Therefore, in reality, the tenant’s rent is less than 10%!
It is precisely because of this Shi Ren.
Li's family soldiers are tall and strong, and more importantly, they are loyal to Li's children and love and respect Li.
This allowed Li Guang to soar into the sky.
Even if the Li family could become an important military aristocratic group of the Han family in the future, it would be inseparable from the dedication and dedication of these soldiers.
The same is generally true for wealthy families and nobles in other places.
Here, in this northern frontier area surrounded by mountains and rivers, with wide plains and howling north wind.
Almost every powerful and noble family knows one truth: use force to conquer everything.
The wealth of the family, the prosperity of the family, the future of the family, and the power of the family are all based on the word "武".
Just win on the battlefield and behead the enemy.
Then, everything you put in will be rewarded.
And the rewards are doubled!
What's more, being in the frontier, the imminent threat of the Huns and the destruction caused by the Huns' invasion forced them to choose only to advocate force and use force to obtain privileges and benefits.
This makes even the princes and county guards here completely different from the noble princes and nobles in the hinterland, especially Qilu.
In Fenyang County, not far from Taiyuan City.
The contemporary Marquis of Fenyang, Jin Kang, looked at the horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts on the Chi Road like a stream of traffic.
He laughed loudly, grabbed a wine bag, drank the strong wine in large gulps, then smashed it on the ground, pulled out the sword from his waist, and said loudly to the hundreds of soldiers behind him:
"Ever since my father was ordered by Emperor Taizong, my family and all the princes have been guarding this place for generations, and it has been twenty years now! The ancients said: a thousand days of raising an army can be used in one moment. I and you all hope that the king's troops will come out of the fortress, and it will take more than a thousand days.
day?"
"Gentlemen, today, you and I are both drunk. We are coming from the same robe on the battlefield to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service!" Jin Kang said loudly.
The soldiers, retainers and soldiers all cheered and waved their hands excitedly, shouting: "Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"
Fenyang Hou was a hero of Emperor Gaozu.
In the first generation, Jin Jiang, the Zhuang Hou of Fenyang, led a thousand men from Yangxia with Lang Zhongqi. His greatest military exploit and the most bragable military feat was that he defeated Xiang Yu's general Zhong Limei in a head-on battle.
He was also granted the title of Marquis for his meritorious service.
However, in the early Han Dynasty, there were famous ministers like rain and fierce generals like clouds.
Jin's status is not high.
The situation changed dramatically during the reign of Emperor Taizong.
In the sixth year of Emperor Taizong's reign, Prime Minister Guan Ying led 85,000 troops and launched the Henan Campaign to drive out the Xiongnu forces within the Great Wall.
Later, due to the severe border defense situation and the shortage of food at the border fortress.
Emperor Taizong, on the one hand, accepted Chao Cuo's suggestion of losing millet and donating titles; on the other hand, Emperor Taizong accepted another suggestion put forward by Chao Cuo: farming!
The Fenyang Hou family was ordered to take on the important task of accumulating millet in the fields near Taiyuan.
The location of the county seat of Fenyang County was therefore moved twenty miles south to the intersection of Lanshui River.
And the strategic location of this place is very important.
It guards the center of the three counties of Hexi, Taiyuan and Yanmen. To the west, it can control Chihongling, and to the east, it can guard Shimen Pass, and at the same time, it can control the Chi Road from Yanmen to Taiyuan.
The county seat of Fenyang County is therefore far larger in scale than the county seat, and is almost comparable to Taiyuan City.
Fenyang County has a radius of ten miles and a height of three feet. An army of 3,000 people is stationed in the city all year round.
The leader of this army was none other than Fenyang Hou.
Therefore, in the military directory of the Han Dynasty, there is the establishment of Fenyang Army.
Although it is not a field regiment, it is just a garrison army, similar to county soldiers.
However, the weapons, equipment and armor of the Fenyang Army are no less than those of the field army.
This is because next to Fenyang County is one of the largest granaries of the Han army in Dai: Yangchangcang.
Here, more than 500,000 dan of military rations were often stored year round.
It is the most important military grain warehouse that supplies and transports the Yanmen garrison.
The Battle of Mayi the year before last consumed all the grain reserves in the Yangchang Warehouse, and even now the warehouse has not been half filled.
This made Jin Kang feel that his opportunity had come.
Lao Jin's family has been farming here for twenty years.
However, from the first generation of Zhuanghou to his father, he waited for Jin Jie.
The Jin family has never stopped honing their claws and martial arts.
On that day, Jin Kang wrote a blood letter asking for war overnight, and then rushed it 800 miles to Chang'an.
In the blood book, Jin Kang said: My father was ordered by Taizong, the late emperor, to station in Fenyang. However, even until his death, he still thought: Attack the Hu! Attack the Hu! Now that your Majesty wants to raise troops to eliminate the Hu problem, please order me to be a dog and a horse, and act like a running dog.
The labor...
Jin Kang's method can only be regarded as an ordinary method.
Compared with Zhou Chang, the Hou of Ji Cheng, it is simply a trick played by children.
After seeing the cars and horses on the road, this guy took his whole family and set off for Chang'an without saying a word.
Then, when he arrived in Chang'an, he took his whole family and knelt in front of the bus station in tears, begging the emperor to use him if he wanted to use troops. Otherwise, he would not have the face to see his father, Zhou Die, under Jiuquan.
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Liu Che was so annoyed by him that he had no choice but to send someone to invite the old man to live in the palace.
And Zhou Chang's trick succeeded.
He was able to successfully get in touch with Liu Che, and then he began to make suggestions.
Not to mention, this guy really has a few brushes.
As for Qihou Zanghu, another feudal state in Taiyuan, his methods were much better than that of the honest man Jin Kang.
People had already hugged Yi Zong's thick legs.
In order to catch the express train of righteousness, the Laozhen family even gave up their moral integrity.
Zenghu just ignored the fact that Yi Zong was actually more than ten years younger than him.
But this strategy is very effective. The Yi clan's relatives need the participation and support of veteran lieutenants like Qi Hou.
Therefore, Yi Zong pinched his nose and accepted this little brother.
As for other princes and lords, the Eight Immortals also crossed the sea to show their magical powers.
Ordinary, just like Jin Kang, who wrote a blood letter to clarify his ambitions, saying: If you can't serve the country, what use will your Majesty's eagles, dogs, and ministers have?
There are various means of going out of line.
Some are shameless, and some are more reserved.
But in short, throughout April, Liu Che received a full box of various petitions for blood.
Looking at these bloody letters and the righteous words one by one, it seemed as if if Liu Che did not use them, they would not have the necessary princes, titles, and two thousand stones to live in this world.
Liu Che was both troubled and happy.
Because he knows that the morale of the military can be used! The morale of the people can be used! (To be continued.)
