(Everyone has a holiday today, so I can’t seem to wish you a happy Tomb-Sweeping Day! Haha)
In mid-December, it snowed heavily for three consecutive days at the western foot of Tongbai Mountain, covering the Nanyang Basin with heavy snow. Going south from Fangcheng, before entering the Tang River, there was a line of carriages and horses meandering in the snow. Looking from a distance
Go, like an ant walking.
When the Yuan Dynasty returned to power, Liu Tingzhou rode on his horse and held the reins. Sometimes strong winds would pick up snow particles and hit his head and face, making people even more sad in this bitter cold weather...
In December, Yue Zhi also led his troops to move north. Lin Fu planned to issue an order from the Privy Council in Fancheng to formally reorganize the Huaidong and Henan armies into the Henan Recruitment Army, with Dong Yuan as the requisition envoy and supervising the Henan armies.
Yue Lengqiu was appointed as the envoy to supervise the army and also supervise the provisions of the armies in Henan. Liu Tingzhou was appointed as the censor of the military capital and in charge of the Xuanfu envoy in Henan. When Yuan returned to the government, he was appointed as the envoy to observe the appearance of the army.
Six town commanders were established under the Henan Recruiting Army, with Deng Yu, Tao Chun, Xiao Kui'an, Chen Juxian, Liang Chengdong and Suizhou surrender general Luo Jian as town commanders. Yue Zhi, Zhong Rong, Wang Xian'er, Huo Tong and others would be the town commanders.
The deputy commander sent Tao Chun and Yue Zhi to garrison Guoyang, with Shangqiu and Yucheng as the front base; sent Chen Juxian, Luo Jian, and Liang Chengdong to garrison in Xuchang, with Changge as the front base; sent Deng Yu to garrison Zhengyang and Queshan.
Xiao Kui'an was stationed in Ruzhou.
The Henan Recruitment Army is being reorganized. Xu retains a total strength of 130,000 troops, of which Tao Chun (the deputy commander is Yue Zhi) has 30,000 troops and Deng Yu has 20,000 troops for Xiao Kui'an, Chen Juxian, Liang Chengdong, and Luo
A total of 80,000 soldiers were established in the four towns. The remaining men were all assigned as garrison soldiers on the spot and cultivated in the fields to consolidate the land.
The Privy Council Order drafted by Lin Fu seemed to have no problem at all at first glance.
Before the war, Huaixi's total strength, including garrison soldiers, was only 110,000. After deducting garrison soldiers, the number of combat soldiers was only over 60,000. At this time, the Chizhou Army was incorporated into the Henan Recruiting Army.
Xu's troops numbered as many as 130,000. It can be said that on the surface, there was no action or suspicion of suppressing the Henan armies.
The problem is that Lin Fu took advantage of his wartime power to directly reorganize the Henan armies in the name of the Privy Council and appoint generals to the Henan armies, making the Privy Council control the world's military affairs, and the "emperor's order does not leave the palace" was further made public
ization and formalization.
Another is that at the same time that Dong Yuan moved the recruiting envoys to Xuchang, Yue Lengqiu did not go to Xuchang but took charge of official duties in Woyang, which actually caused the Henan recruiting army to form Xuchang.
Military and political center.
On the surface, the two towns of Taochun and Dengyu controlled by Yue Lengqiu only have 50,000 soldiers, and the money and food paid to the Henan armies are completely allocated in proportion to the number of soldiers, which means that the central calculation is allocated to Henan every year.
Of the money and food for the army, Yue Lengqiu could only nominally control a total of one million silver in Guoyang, but the total amount of money and food returned to Xuchang was as high as 1.6 million taels.
The places where Tao Chun and Deng Yu were stationed in Woyang, Zhengyang, Queshan and other places used to be the outer defense line and city defense of Huaixi. At the same time, they were also located on the inner side of the entire Henan defense line, even on both sides of the Guohe River and Zhengyang.
Going south to the north bank of the Huaihe River, there are still hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland that can be directly used; therefore, Guoyang can barely use it since it can get one million taels of silver in food every year.
After Dong Yuan was forced to lead his troops to cross the Huaihe River and march north, he captured Ruzhou, Xuchang, Changge, Yanling and other places. Although Xuchang was once the center of the Henan provinces, with thousands of miles of fertile land, it has been repeatedly devastated by wars in the past ten years.
It has been completely reduced to a ruined city.
Fortunately, when Chen Zhihu's troops evacuated, they had a tacit understanding and did not further destroy these areas, making the situation around Xuchang and Ruzhou a little better, but only a little better.
Nowadays, the Central Committee nominally allocates 1.6 million taels of money and food to Xuchang every year, but this money and food is only enough for 80,000 troops and tens of thousands of soldiers to starve to death in the remaining land around Xuchang, organize defense, repair the city, and restore people's livelihood.
It's impossible to talk about it at all.
In order to support Yue Lengqiu in restraining Dong Yuan, Lin Fu allocated an additional 20% of the money and food for transportation, which was equivalent to 500,000 taels of silver, in addition to the regular salary.
"Yue Lengqiu is in control...
In the appointment of the commanders of the six towns and their garrison, Lin Fu did not hide his murderous intentions.
The Woyang town army nominally has Tao Chun as its commander, but with an army of 30,000 and Yue Zhi as its deputy commander, it can actually be easily expanded into two towns, making Yue Lengqiu's military power in Henan not much weaker than Dong Yuan's.
There are many, at least Yue Lengqiu has enough strength to contain Dong Yuan; and among the 80,000 troops controlled by Dong Yuan, Xiao Kui'an has the closest relationship with Huaidong, so he is stationed in Ruzhou, which is also the same as the Huaidong army stationed in Nanyang.
In the northern region, the three armies of Liang Chengdong, Chen Juxian and Luo Jian who were really hostile to Huaidong were isolated.
Lin Fu formally appointed Luo Jian as the town commander, which also officially recognized the status of Suizhou's surrendered army and the fact that it was merged into the Henan Recruiting Army. However, among the four generals surrendered by Suizhou, Zhong Rong had the highest status, so Lin Fu chose to use Luo Xiancheng to
Luo Jian, who was the most loyal, relatively brave but lacking in strategy, came to suppress Zhong Rong, Huo Tong, and Wang Xian'er as the town commander. Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Guizheng could understand with their toes their sinister intentions.
Although they were traveling in the wind and snow, from the perspective of Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Guizheng, the situation Xuchang faced was ten or a hundred times more dangerous than the snowy and cold place they were in...
Thinking that the meeting with Xiao Kui'an when passing through Ruyang was not pleasant, Liu Tingzhou was also worried about this. Xiao Kui'an did not say it on the surface, but he told Dong Yuan that he had withdrawn all the soldiers and horses outside Zhengyang during the war, which made him
How could you not have any objections to the matter of keeping Zhengyang alone?
Lin Fu did not pursue the matter. Otherwise, he would be accused of fearing the enemy and cowardly fighting and allowing the enemy to cross the border. He sent several cavalry to arrest Xiao Kui'an and throw him into prison. Lin Fu did not pursue the matter. How could Xiao Kui'an not know anything about it?
In addition, King Yuan Hancheng of Chu was also completely under house arrest in Shouzhou, making it difficult to communicate with the outside world.
At this time, a team of carriages and horses came from the direction of Biyang through the snow. Two riders came to report first, but it was the team of carriages and horses escorting Tao Chun from Guoyang... Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Guizheng looked at each other, walking with Tao Chun, full of emotions
Embarrassing; if you don’t go with Tao Chun when you meet, wouldn’t it mean that the Huaidong Army in Nanyang and Xiangyang laughed heartily when they saw it?
However, Lin Fu summoned the generals of the Henan Recruiting Army in Fancheng to discuss the regional defense and military deployment of Nanyang, Xiangyang, Henan and other places. Tao Chun temporarily put down his military power and rushed to Fancheng to see Lin Fu on behalf of Yue Lengqiu. This in itself was called Liu Tingzhou
, Yuan Guizheng looked at the gesture with chills.
However, Liu Tingzhou had no choice but to declare his position when Yuan returned to the government. Tao Chun made sure that their carriages and horses were here, so he took several mounted guards and rode their horses to greet them first: "I stopped in Biyang for a day and waited for the Marquis of Yuan.
Mr. Liu rushed over; Jinsheng was still a guest in Woyang, and he wanted to come over with Lord Yuan, but he caught the cold in Woyang, and a letter was entrusted to be handed over to Lord Yuan..."
After the defeat of Nanyang, Yuan Jinsheng returned to Jiangning to report the news and asked the Privy Council to imprison him. After the war, Lin Fuqi used the excuse of Ruyang's defeat to seize Liang Chengyi's right to lead the army, and appointed Liang Chengdong, a branch of the Liang family, as the town commander.
, rectify the remnants of the army in Nanyang and Hezhong.
It seems that the power of the Liang family is still in the hands of the Liang family's children, and Liang Chengdong even refused to appoint the commander of the town several times, but it is still difficult for others to guess what Liang Chengdong really thinks in his heart.
After the battle in Xiangyang, Liang Chengchong died in battle, and Liang Chengyi took the responsibility for the defeat, appointed nobility, and appointed officials to serve the people. Lin Fu ordered Yuan Jinsheng to be released from prison and returned to Xuchang - Yuan Guizheng heard that Jin
I was born in Wuyang and caught the wind and cold, and my heart tightened. I thought that I had been tortured in prison in Jiangning, otherwise my body would not be so weak.
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After the recapture of Xiangyang, the Battle of Jingxiang was completely over, but the rest of the army and horses and the adjustment of defense in the later period were all a mess. Therefore, Lin Fu continued to stay in Fancheng after the Battle of Xiangyang instead of immediately returning to Jiangning.
Fancheng also had heavy snow for three consecutive days, and the weather was freezing cold. Lin Fu was used to practicing swordsmanship in the courtyard to strengthen his muscles and bones to keep fit. Song Jia was sitting in front of the porch wearing a fur coat, basking in the cold sun after the snow, watching Lin Fu's body.
Wearing short clothes and practicing swordsmanship, there was a fine drop of sweat on his forehead, and he seemed not to be affected by the cold at all.
Seeing Lin Fu sheathing his sword and walking into the corridor, Song Fu wiped off the sweat on his forehead with a sweat towel and asked him to quickly put on his robe, saying: "Liu Tingzhou, Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun met in Tanghe.
If we join the team and come south, we will reach Fancheng about the day after tomorrow..."
Lin Fu didn't want to see Liu Tingzhou. He believed that Liu Tingzhou had no ambitions, unlike Dong Yuan. However, he really had nothing to say to this kind of royalist party who was so stubborn that he even hesitated to communicate with the captives and harm the people's livelihood, but he couldn't.
Not summoning people from Henan allowed the power and prestige of the Privy Council to seep into people's hearts step by step.
Lin Fu took a piece of wiped knife and sheathed it, put it on the knife holder, put on his robe, sighed softly, and said: "This trip has taken too long. If they can arrive the day after tomorrow, we will set off the day after tomorrow."
Go back to Jiangning!"
"I want to go to Xuzhou to see Miaozhen..." Song Jia said.
"Why don't you accompany me back to Jiangning?" Lin Fu asked.
"I'm afraid that after I return to Jiangning, I will be torn to pieces by those people who are very fond of me," Song Jiayan said with a smile, "Besides, you will also go to Xuzhou after spring, so I will wait for you in Xuzhou..."
"That's okay," Lin Fu said, "but the ten-day journey from Fancheng back to Jiangning will inevitably be lonely."
"Then let Zuo Lan and Zuo Yan accompany you. At the worst, we can ask the two sisters to go back to Jiangning and tear them apart..." Song Jia said, "But I think you should recharge your batteries. Jiangning's
Some of them are hungry."
Lin Fu stretched out his hand and pinched Song Jia's waist. At this time, the guard came in and reported: "Master Gao, please see..."
"Zongting, come in," Lin Fu said to Gao Zongting, who was already in the outer courtyard, "I was just going to talk to you about returning to Jiangning. What do you want?"
"A message came from Jiangning." Gao Zongting came in, bowed to Song Jia, and said, "The Queen Mother sent people from the palace to spread the news, saying that based on the achievements of the three battles of Jiangning, Shangrao, and Jingxiang, she was sent to Huaidong
The generals will be rewarded with land. Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Political Affairs Hall will directly block the irregular orders that violate the rules and regulations, according to what the imperial court sees, the Queen Mother only wants to spread the news..."
"This old witch still has the strength to fight," Lin Fu stood with his hands in his belt, frowned, and said, "She is planning such a cunning plan. Aren't you afraid that I will directly destroy the Yuan family?"
"The Queen Mother may have understood a little bit that your ambition is not to simply stand on your own behalf," Song Jia said, "so she took this dangerous strategy as a test..."
Lin Fu sighed lightly. If he just established a new dynasty to satisfy his own ambitions, after the battle between Jing and Xiang, he would be 99% sure to control the situation in Jiangning, kill the Yuan clan and ascend the throne.
Even if Cao Yiqu formally separatizes Shu and Dong Yuan, Liu Tingzhou and others surrender to Northern Yan in the name of restoring the imperial family and fight against Huaidong, the war will be delayed for at most three or four years.
However, if the war is delayed for another three or four years, it means that millions of people's lives will not be saved, and many times more people will be displaced; more importantly, at this time, the Yuan Dynasty will be abolished and independent, and the generals of Huaidong will be rewarded, and the entire history may move forward again.
The old road cannot achieve its true purpose of creating a new pattern...
Lin Fu wants to make the emerging industry, mining and commerce in Jianghuai and other places the skeleton and blood of the new empire, so that the new empire has no way back except moving towards industrial society. This requires the continuous weakening of the traditional food dependence on the fields.
At the same time, it is necessary to cultivate and support the new class of people who are mainly engaged in industry, mining and commerce - the feudal land. Whether it is the rumor spread by the Empress of the Liang Dynasty, or the great meritorious officials after Lin Fu abolished the Yuan Dynasty and became independent, in fact
This will turn a large number of Huaidong generals into a new group of powerful people who rely on land rent. This is directly contradictory to Lin Fu's goal of opening up a new pattern.
This was the most troublesome and troublesome part for Lin Fu.
If Liang made the plan directly based on this, then it must be said that she made a very good risky move, which made Lin Fu have a hard time advancing or retreating.
To be honest, Lin Fu's aspirations and goals were only mentioned by a few people such as Song Jia, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others. As for the prospects of industrial society, except for Lin Fu, no matter how wise or enlightened the talents in the world are,
It's hard to imagine.
It's just that Lin Fu has the reputation and power to stand at the top of the world, and the new policies he has implemented in Huaidong for the past ten years have gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so he can attract the vision and followers of the truly enlightened and pragmatic talents of the world.
Thinking of this, Lin Fu also sighed with emotion and said with a bitter smile: "Liang Hou is in the deep palace, and he can come up with such a dangerous plan. He is indeed a master of maneuvering..."
"Ignoring it and extinguishing the rumors in Jiangning city will not cause any serious harm," Gao Zongting said.
Not to mention Lin Fu's reputation at this time, which cannot be replaced by others; moreover, the Huaidong Army is different from the current military system, and the Huaidong Army's inherent cohesion is as if this incident had not happened.
However, there is no need to worry about the morale of the military being shaken.
"No," Lin Fu shook his head and said, "I think we should open up more and ask Jiang Ning to discuss the distinction between Han and barbarians while also discussing the enfeoffment of towns and lands."
"If the trend starts, it will be difficult to suppress it?" Gao Zongting said.