Entering September, the weather is getting cooler, like smoke in the rain, and occasionally a few yellow leaves fall in the lush green shade of Yuelu Mountain.
Han Qian stood under the pavilion, with the wind and rain coming in, and he could already feel a bit of chill on his face.
"No one knows the circumstances of Shaojian Shen's death. Even the two eunuchs who served him during his lifetime were beaten to death in front of the palace gate the next day for stealing personal belongings..." A young man from the Xi family who was sent back by Feng Liao, Report on the news they collected during their time in Jinling.
Han Qian nodded, and the Xi boy wearing a coir raincoat went down the mountain into the mist and rain.
Han Qian sighed slightly and couldn't help but fall into deep thought...
Although Shen He was destined to die, in order to make him appear to have recovered when he was in Tanzhou, Han Qian ordered a large amount of tonic to be used in the medicine given to him, which actually overdrawn his last bit of vitality in advance.
Shen He failed to survive August, and Han Qian could be said to have helped Anning Palace behind the scenes.
In the past two months, Prince Tan's Mansion and Hunan Marching Army have also made every effort to reorganize the forces in the eight states of Hunan after the vassal reduction.
The five prefectures of Yue, Lang, Tan, Shao and Heng were recovered, and a total of 40,000 prisoners were taken into custody. In addition to the soldiers and horses who had surrendered with Zhang Han, Gao Long, Miao Yong and other surrendered generals, there were also nearly 6,000 soldiers.
Among the 46,000 people, the total number of rural soldiers drawn into the army was about 26,000. After discussion, everyone in Xingtai finally decided to allow 11,000 rural soldiers to return home to ensure the farming of the states. The other 15,000 rural soldiers who were drawn by lot were incorporated into the newly planned state camps in Langzhou, Yuezhou, Tanzhou, Shaozhou and Hengzhou to protect local areas. The necessary armed forces for public security and basic defense are preserved.
The appointment of state Sima, military and horse envoys and even grassroots military attaches are mainly carried out by recruiting military attaches and veterans from the Longque Army.
The veterans of the Longque Army preferred to return home to reunite with their families after the war, and even resisted being transferred to various prefectural camps to serve as grassroots military attachés.
Even if their families are relocated, a large number of veterans are brave enough but illiterate, do not have enough time for training, and have poor adaptability to unfamiliar environments. It is difficult to expect them to be able to coordinate. Hao has complicated relationships with local clans and rural soldiers, and conflicts between local clans and rural soldiers are also endless.
This also resulted in the state battalion's combat effectiveness being quite limited.
However, at present, it is necessary to ensure that Xingtai has absolute control over local governments and prevent local dissent. This is also a method that must be implemented.
At this time, Jinyun Tower used the name of searching for rebels to monitor and spy on local areas, which became an indispensable supplementary means to control the states and counties.
In addition to Jinling and the troops who secretly sneaked into Shu to spy on the news from Liang, Jinyun Tower's monitoring agency for the eight states of Hunan had also recruited manpower from captured rural soldiers to expand to 400 by the end of August.
In addition to the local soldiers, there are more than 20,000 captured soldiers, who are the soldiers and horses of the military government directly under the jurisdiction of the Ma family. These people, together with more than 130,000 dependents, will naturally be organized into the military government of the Longque Army this time. Military household.
The original Tanzhou military camps located in Taojiang, Ziyang, Ningxiang and other places had a total of more than 900,000 acres of grain fields, which were naturally cultivated by the original military households.
Since the vassaling war along the Dongting Lake did not last long, major cities such as Tanzhou, Yueyang, and Hanshou were almost recovered without suffering military disasters. The damage to farming and urban handicrafts was minimized and did not cause any damage. A devastating blow.
In the past two months, Jinling has also dispatched a large number of civilian officials to fill the vacancies caused by the massacres and purges of rebels. The situation in the counties along Dongting Lake soon stabilized. After September, the rivers, lakes, and rivers
As well as Yi Road and Chi Road, business travelers began to frequent the area and became prosperous again.
Although the city was captured during the Tanzhou Festival,
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The direct inspection of the Du Envoy's Mansion yielded very limited results. However, following the in-depth liquidation of the rebel civil and military officials, more than 800,000 acres of grain fields, mulberry fields, more than 6,000 houses, pawn shops, and warehouses were searched successively.
There are more than 100 buildings, including three shipbuilding yards, six iron ore mines, six coal mining yards, 12 weaving yards, and more than 60 large and medium-sized water mills.
In addition, a total of more than 90,000 slaves and maidservants, as well as rebels and children who were demoted to slavery, were searched.
They searched 260,000 dan of grain and more than 5 million dan of other property.
The money and food confiscated were undoubtedly confiscated and used as public funds for Hunan Province and the various states, as well as to support the Longque Army.
Twenty or thirty iron mines, shipbuilding yards, weaving yards, coal mining yards, and more than ten thousand official slaves were all under the jurisdiction of Xingtai. They were run by the Salt and Iron Yard with Zhang Qian as the supervisor. The money and grain earned from the operations every year
They were all used to make up for the lack of public funds for traveling to Taiwan and money for raising the army.
In addition, there were more than 40,000 official slaves and maidservants, totaling more than 7,000 households, and more than 300,000 acres of grain fields, mulberry fields, and hemp fields, further expanding the scale of the Longque Army's military households and military farms.
At this point, the number of military camps under the jurisdiction of Prince Tan's Protectorate was expanded to ten, with a total of 60,000 military households, nearly 100,000 strong and brave men, and more than 2 million acres of grain fields.
This also means that at this stage of the war to reduce the vassal state, the size of the military households and farmland under the direct jurisdiction of Prince Tan's Mansion has more than doubled.
Regardless of the extreme situation when a war breaks out, the Left and Right Dragon Bird Army must maintain a standing combat strength of about 30,000 people on a daily basis, which is almost equivalent to one of three soldiers. This is equivalent to the average number of soldiers in the army.
They have to undertake nearly four months of military service every year, and the purchase and repair of soldiers' armor are all the responsibility of the military household.
In addition, every ten military households had to support a mule and horse, and they also had to pay a certain amount of land tax according to the household.
For ordinary soldiers, this burden is still quite heavy.
However, for Prince Tan's Mansion and Hunan Xingtai, it is enough to maintain an elite combat force of 30,000 people and a local state camp of about 30,000 people, as long as a large-scale war does not break out.
In order to support the popular sentiment, the newly recruited military households were even exempted from the land tax for three years.
In addition to the 200,000 acres of grain fields, mulberry and hemp fields and more than 2,000 official slaves and maidservants, which are directly designated as the private property of the Third Prince Tan Palace, there are also nearly 300,000 acres of grain fields, mulberry and hemp fields and nearly 4,000 official slaves and maidservants.
Give rewards to generals who have made meritorious deeds.
With the support of the third prince, Han Qian and his father Han Daoxun were still determined to be the first to eliminate the vassal, ranking ahead of Xinchang Hou Lipu and Zheng Hui, Zhenyuan Hou Yang Jian, Shen Yang and others.
In addition to the house in Tanzhou City, Han Qian and his father Han Daoxun were also rewarded with more than 6,000 acres of grain fields, 200 households of official slaves and maidservants, and were allowed to compile 300 military songs.
This time, 8,000 soldiers were drafted by lottery from the newly added camp military mansion and more than 30,000 soldiers were transferred to Shaozhou, where they were incorporated into the Zuo Longque Army and accepted the command and training of Li Zhigao.
At this time, Li Zhigao was on the southern front. In addition to directly commanding the newly formed Zuo Longque Army, he also controlled the state camps in Shaozhou and Hengzhou. He was temporarily responsible for suppressing and resisting the remaining rebel soldiers who had fled into Yongzhou.
Although Li Zhigao had 23,000 troops under his control at this time, more than three-quarters of them were surrendered troops and captured soldiers. It is difficult to say how much combat effectiveness he had, and it was also difficult to launch an attack on the Yongzhou rebels from Wuzhisiling in a short time. A massive offensive.
However, in addition to the more than 15,000 elites of the Youlongque Army and the more than 3,000 naval officers and generals of the naval force who were resting in Tanzhou City, there were 3,000 elites of the Chenzhou Fan Camp under the command of Xiying, and 5,000 soldiers of the Tanzhou Prefecture Camp. Outside Ma, after the ancient post road over Xuefeng Mountain was opened, the distance from Qianyang County to Wugang County in Shaozhou was shortened to 130 miles. If necessary, the Xuzhou State Battalion can also be transferred to Wuzhisiling in the southeast of Shaozhou at any time to assist. Combat.
Jinling is relatively calm for the time being. The third prince is in Tanzhou, mainly to stabilize the situation in Hunan.
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In military and political affairs, Shen Yang was assisted by Xinchang Hou Li Pu. Shen Yang was assisted by Wang Lin, Zhang Qian and others. Li Pu was assisted by Wen Ruilin, Chai Jian, Li Chong and others. Han Qian joined the military as a consultant. On the contrary, Not the busiest.
After the affairs of Jinyun Tower were sorted out smoothly, the third prince ordered Han Qian to go to Shaozhou to assist Li Zhigao in reorganizing the military equipment on the southern front.
No matter what changes occur in Jinling, Tanzhou cannot be lost as the base camp. Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia's remnant troops who retreated to Yongzhou are always a worry for Prince Tan's palace and cannot be taken lightly.
After receiving the definite news that Shen He had died of illness, Han Qian was ordered to set off from Tanzhou and rush to Wuzhisiling in southern Shaozhou to meet up with Li Zhigao to help reorganize the defenses on the southern front and strive to launch an offensive against the Yongzhou rebels after winter. It would be nice to have some explanation for Jinling.
Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia led the remaining troops and fled into Yongzhou with their families and more than 100,000 people.
Although Emperor Tianyou's ruthless suppression of the Tanzhou rebels left the two rebels with no other choice but to become trapped beasts and resist, although the two rebels quickly and successfully controlled Yingyang after they fled into Yongzhou, The two large cities of Lingling have stronger troops than Li Zhigao's troops. However, due to the shortage of supplies caused by so many people eating and drinking, as well as the sharp conflicts with the local forces in Yongzhou, they are unable to turn around and attack. The Chu army in Shaozhou and Hengzhou.
The two sides can only continue to remain in a stalemate for now.
The south of Yongzhou is the whole state under the jurisdiction of Nanhai King Liu Yin. According to current intelligence, a considerable number of generals within the Nanhai Qingyuan Army are afraid of the Chu army's strength and strongly do not advocate rash action.
Although Nanhai King Liu Yin's troops have assembled tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Guizhou, south of Quanzhou, there is currently no sign of contact with the rebels Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia, and no men, horses or materials have been sent to directly reinforce Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia.
Li Zhigao used troops with great style. After Han Qian met with Li Zhigao, he saw that there was nothing for him to worry about the defense in the area of Wuzhi Ridge and Shizi Ridge (located at the junction of Yongzhou and Hengzhou), so he rushed to Shaozhou Wugang first. county.
In addition to the fact that the eastern exit of Xuefeng Mountain Post Road is located in Wugang County, Han Qian needs to borrow a road from Wugang County to return to Guizhou Yang. The 6,000 acres of grain fields he was rewarded this time include 3,000 acres of land in Longya City and nearby areas. In addition, there are 3,000 acres of grain fields located at the exit of the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road in Wugang County.
This farm was originally the private property of Luo Jia, the governor of Shaozhou. After it was confiscated, Han Qian asked the third prince to choose this farmland for his reward.
Naturally, all the farmers in the farm were coerced by Luo Jia and fled to Yongzhou. Han Qian came here this time to relocate the 200 households of official slaves who were given to him and his son.
On September 12, when Han Qian and his party entered Wugang County on horseback, when they could see Wugang County at the foot of Xuefeng Mountain, they also saw a group of about ten people coming out of Wugang City.
Slowly rush towards them.
Guo Queer, who was in charge of scouting the way forward, led the two men on horseback and rode back, reporting: "The Wugang County Magistrate, County Lieutenant and others have come out of the city to greet you!"
Wugang County Magistrate Song Ze was an official appointed directly from Jinling in mid-July and had no friendship with Han Qian. However, Song Ze did not dare to show any slights to Han Qian, the popular figure next to the third prince; and the newly appointed Wugang County Magistrate Song Ze
Wei is Han Daoxun's eldest son and Han Qian's cousin Han Chengmeng.
In the eight prefectures under the jurisdiction of Hunan Xingtai, except for the officials in Chenxu Prefecture, which remained basically unchanged, and except for Yongzhou, which was still under the control of the rebels, the other five prefectures and forty counties, in more than two months, filled in a total of
There are three hundred high-ranking officials, and Han Chengmeng, as the third prince's assistant, will also be appointed as the eighth-rank Wugang County Lieutenant this time.
In Wugang County, as the county captain, Han Chengmeng not only assisted the county magistrate Song Ze in arresting bandits and maintaining security in the county, he was also responsible for training and commanding the county soldiers of 500 people.
