"Shen Yang was appointed as the magistrate of Guangde, and he became more cautious in his actions. Except for Qin Wen who was appointed as the chief historian in charge of the palace, and Zheng Tong who was in charge of the Gong Cao, the officials, etiquette, soldiers, punishments, household Cao Cao, as well as the prison chief, post office, and government school , the vacancies of medical officers, prefecture Sima and other positions, as well as the hundreds of subordinate officials, large and small, who filled the various positions, also followed the wishes of the people in Yueyang, either selected and appointed from the old officials of the three counties, or selected from the sons of Xuanhu and the two prefectures - —At present, it seems that the problem in Guangde is not big, and resettlement and other matters can be continued, but if we do this, problems will occur sooner or later..."
Feng Liao and others had fast horses to deliver news on the way, and they had a more timely and detailed grasp of the situation in Jinling than Han Qian who returned to Xuzhou.
The latest message was delivered to Feng Liao. It has been a month since the official establishment of the three counties of Guangde. The situation there seems to have stabilized, but the main thing is that everything is currently being prepared for the general attack on Jinling City, and all aspects of careful thinking are at stake. Hidden and tucked away, even if there are some conflicts, they will not intensify for the time being.
However, Feng Liao, who knew the inside story better, was not optimistic about the future of Guangde Mansion.
Han Qian could only shrug his shoulders. The poor clans had been at odds with each other for so many years. The previous dynasty had begun to conduct imperial examinations to recruit scholars, but the actual influence was extremely limited. In the middle and later periods, the separatism of vassal towns was equivalent to nullification, not to mention that the clans had to be separated. Do noble families agree to accept that their social status is worse than that of common people, and that they are worse than slaves who are the same as animals?
If nothing changes, and history proceeds according to its established course, in the next forty or fifty years, the world's heroes will fight endlessly, and the noble families will kill each other in the continuous wars and consume them completely, and their power will be greatly affected. After weakening, a new dynasty emerged that did not rely on aristocratic families, but recruited scholars from the common people to govern the world.
However, this dynasty was also born with weak genes and has never been able to escape the shadow and threat of the Hu people in the north.
In the established historical process, the aristocratic families no longer become an obstacle to the complete abolition of the old system of slaves. It is actually the result of the continuous blows and weakening of the wars in the 40s and 50s.
Could it be that he could bridge the gap here with just one year of hard work?
And he was able to do this in Xuzhou because of years of hard work. The generals in Xuzhou mainly came from the bottom of society.
Even so, Xuzhou is still under strong vigilance from surrounding forces.
As for the hidden dangers in Guangde Mansion, Han Qian was beyond his reach. With his ability, he could only take a step at a time. He hoped that Shen Yang, in charge of Guangde Mansion, could keep the lid on for a longer time.
At the moment, Han Qian is still more concerned about the progress of the Yueyang troops' offensive against Jinling.
Although the general trend has been achieved, even if Yang Zhitang, Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, Zhang Chao and his uncle Han Daoming cannot be regarded as first-rate counselors and officials, they are still above the standard in the world, as long as they are not stupid enough to commit fatal crimes. mistakes, there should be no problem in capturing Jinling.
Predicting this is one thing, Han Qian also hopes to grasp more detailed changes.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, more than 80,000 elite troops from the Longque Army on the left, the Guangde Army on the right, and Huzhou soldiers formally advanced to the gates of Jinling City. They built camps in front of the city, laid out war equipment, and launched an offensive against Jinling City.
Jinling City was built on the basis of the original Shengzhou City, with the addition of outer city walls, imperial city, and palace city. There were a total of four walls of different heights and thicknesses inside and outside.
The palace city was mainly rebuilt based on the former Shengzhou Jiedu Envoy Office, while the construction of the outer city walls and the imperial city was also presided over by Yang En, Marquis of Liyang.
The outer city wall stands along the Yangtze River and is built along the streams, lakes, hills and mountains on the south bank of the river. The actual height and thickness are not uniform, with a total length of more than fifty miles and a height ranging from two feet to two feet and three feet.
In the early days of Tianyou, conditions were difficult and there was not much money and food. The city wall was only built with rammed earth. After more than ten years, a large number of city bricks were fired one after another to cover the city wall with earthen walls.
The so-called cladding is not just a simple layer of bricks.
The first layer of the outer wall against the earthen wall was first wrapped with small bricks to a thickness of three feet, and then covered with large bricks that were two feet thick.
The inner wall of the city wall is built with large city bricks and white lime, and is thicker than three feet.
The original foundation of the rammed earth wall was two to three layers of base stones; some areas encountered quicksand and the soil was soft, and there were multiple layers of large logs buried under the foundation stones, arranged horizontally and vertically, and between the horizontal and vertical logs.
Use large nails to nail it together to make it a solid whole.
There are seven city gates in the outer city of Jinling and eight city gates in the inner city. Except for the Shuiguan city gate, they all have solid Wengcheng watchtowers.
The development of traditional city-building techniques in the hands of Yang En can be said to have reached a peak, and it is also reflected in many construction details of Jinling City.
The many settings such as enemy towers, reef towers, horse paths, and city climbing roads, as well as the choice of the city wall pattern and the surrounding terrain of Jinling, all reflect Yang En's personal profound knowledge in defensive warfare.
Xu Mingzhen did not cross the river and entered Jinling City. Generals such as Xu Anlan and Zhao Mingting may still be somewhat unknown, but Wen Muqiao and Niu Gengru are all veteran and famous officials who assisted Emperor Tianyou in rising up in Jianghuai, and Wen Bo also performed extremely well when defending Chizhou.
Remarkable.
If An Ning Palace is determined to defend Jinling City, it will not be easy for Yue Yang to rely solely on troops and horses to attack.
"My lord returned to Xuzhou early, exposing the rift between my lord and the third prince, and Shen Yang was squeezed out of the core. Will Anning Palace abandon Jinling and retreat to the north bank?" Feng Liao thought of a possibility and asked Han Qian.
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"Maybe it's possible, who knows?" Han Qian spread his hands and stood up with a relaxed attitude as if it had nothing to do with him.
If there weren't so many conflicts among the people in Yueyang, the retreat of Anning Palace to the north wouldn't last long.
After all, Yueyang's strength is too strong after integrating the states and counties of Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road. With Anning Palace withdrawing from Shouzhou, there is no danger to defend. It faces enemies on all sides. The population is less than one million, but it has to support hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses.
, how long can it sustain without collapse?
Under such circumstances, how many lonely ministers and villains would choose to follow the peaceful palace to the dark side?
Now, it's really hard to say whether Anning Palace will stay for a while and find that the situation is too difficult and take the initiative to withdraw to the north bank of the river to wait for the opportunity to change.
The key lies in the choice between Anning Palace and the Xu family.
However, given Empress Xu's surly temper, even if she wanted to withdraw, it would not be at this time.
Whether Yang Yuanpu can separate in time and recruit the naval officers of the Louchuan Army, whether he can effectively join forces with the Chuzhou Army to block the river crossing channel for the north retreat of Anning Palace in time, and the physical condition of the prince Yang Yuanwo will all be determined.
He will not die of illness in the near future. These are important factors that determine the changes in the situation in Jinling.
With so many factors that are difficult to determine, Han Qian has jumped out of the situation at this time, and it is too early to judge the final destination of An Ning Palace now.
Even at this point, nearly 400,000 civilians are still besieged in Jinling City and are suffering from famine. In the end, thousands of people will inevitably starve to death, but this is beyond Han Qian's ability.
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He has worked hard and successfully prevented millions of civilians from being besieged in Jinling City. In the end, nine out of ten people would starve to death. The food shortage in Jinling City has been alleviated to a certain extent. He has been able to live up to his conscience.
As for Zuo Guangde's army and its new recruits recruited from various states and counties, they were transferred to Jinling as reserve troops and would be dispersed to replenish their elite combat strength. Although Han Qian was unable to change it, he felt it was a pity.
Obviously, the Langzhen will also be excluded from the official standard weapons.
The Yuanyang Formation is more suitable for controlling short-bladed light soldiers and relatively loose and fragmented battlefield space.
The city walls, the too narrow alleys in the current city, and even the narrow decks in water battles are not conducive to the use of special weapons like Langzhen.
The Yuanyang Formation seems to be somewhat out of place.
Of course, Yang Yuanpu and others decided to use this method to dismantle the Zuo Guangde Army only because they wanted to eliminate the influence of the Yuanyang Formation. They did not think of absorbing the advantages of the Yuanyang Formation and making certain adjustments to make it more suitable for street fighting, water battles, and more.
It's somewhat of a pity.
Now that Zuo Guangde's army was destined to be disbanded, the tactical advantages of the Yuanyang Formation could be inherited and carried forward by the Xuzhou Barracks.
The rugged and mountainous terrain of Xuzhou and its surroundings, as well as the strategy of raising elite troops, dictated that Xuzhou's soldiers and horses must adopt a smaller scale, short-term and long-term systems and a more balanced tactical formation in order to ensure their advantage.
Leaving aside the incident in Jinling, Han Qian discussed with Feng Liao, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Xi Xunqiao, Lin Haizheng, Xi Chang, Feng Xuan and others about his plans for the follow-up strategy of Xuzhou and his new job adjustments.
Quyang County was newly established, and Zhao Wuji was appointed as the county magistrate.
Lin Haizheng went to Zhijiang, adjacent to the Tian family in Yezhou, to serve as the county magistrate.
Tian Cheng was appointed as the magistrate of Qianyang County, Gao Bao was appointed as the magistrate of Langxi County, Zhou Chu succeeded Xi Xunqiao as the magistrate of Longya County, and Zhao Qi succeeded Gao Bao as the magistrate of China.
Based on Jiming Village, Chenzhong County was newly established, and Feng Liao was appointed as the magistrate of Chenzhong County.
At the same time, the prefecture of Xuzhou was moved from Qianyang to Chenzhong County. Feng Xiao also served as the governor of the state;
; Ji Xiyao served as the Gong Cao and joined the army; Feng Yi served as the Li Cao and joined the army and took charge of the post office and guest affairs.
In addition, a general affairs officer was appointed, with Du Yijun as the chief case officer of the Qian Bureau who joined the army and as an official, and Chen Jitang as the chief case officer of the Industrial and Construction Bureau.
Du Jiuniang served as medical officer.
Before there was a suitable candidate, Han Qian personally served as an academic officer and promoted school education in seven counties of Xuzhou.
Tian Cheng, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Gao Shao, Zhou Chu, Zhao Qi and other major generals in the army took up the official positions held by traditional civil servants such as county magistrates and Zhu Caoshan military officers. On the one hand, Han Qian lacked people like Xue Ruogu and Li Tang in his direct line.
On the other hand, the scale of the state camp will not expand too much, and there will not be so many senior generals to arrange for them.
More importantly, Tian Cheng, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Gao Shao, Zhou Chu and even Zhao Qi have no problem in commanding and commanding an army of two to three thousand, and Xuzhou soldiers and horses will not carry out large-scale operations in a short period of time.
There is no such condition for expansion, and they can only be arranged to preside over a county or an aspect of work within the state government. Only then can they have room for further improvement.
In the adjustment of the military system, Han Qian mainly separated the duties of Prefecture Sima, Bingcao Canjun and Bingma Envoy. Gao Shao became the Prefecture Sima and the leader Cao Canjun. Under the Bingcao, there was also a Du Supervisor Department, which was mainly responsible for building barracks and recruiting troops.
The management of rural soldiers and military status, military pay and military discipline is equivalent to the general logistics and the general military judge; Han Qian also serves as the military envoy, and Yang Qin and Feng Xuan serve as deputy military envoys, who are mainly responsible for the actual command of the military and horse.
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Yang Qin served as deputy envoy of soldiers and horses and also led Yuhou, the capital of the Xuzhou Navy. He temporarily organized two battalions of water troops, with Lin Jingzong and Feng Zhang as battalion commanders. One battalion of water troops continued to be stationed in Qianyang, and the other battalion was stationed in Chenzhong.
Feng Xuan served as the deputy envoy of soldiers and horses and also served as the capital of Xuzhou's horse and infantry army.
Guo Que and others were in charge.
Since Xuzhou is surrounded by either prefectures and counties directly under Dachu, or Jisuzhou counties that are attached to Dachu, as long as Xuzhou is attached to Dachu for a day, there is no openly available excuse to invade the surrounding prefectures and counties, let alone the surrounding counties.
The power of prefectures and counties is not as weak as imagined, so in a short period of time, in addition to further intensive cultivation in the counties, the main focus is on the development and construction of two new counties, Quyang and Chenzhong.
Han Qian moved the prefectural capital to Chenzhong, and all resources will naturally be allocated to Chenzhong County. The prefectural office, Liucao Siyuan, college, state prison, medical hospital, navy and horse infantry garrison will also be built immediately.
Waiting for a series of buildings, and the five to six thousand people who moved west this time will mainly be resettled in Chenzhong County.
In the newly established Quyang County, in addition to developing and constructing the valleys and river valleys in the upper reaches of the canal, it was also necessary to naturalize the residents of Baifan Village on both sides of the canal. Han Qian ordered Guo Que to lead a battalion of infantry to follow Zhao Wuji.
In Nanliao Village and Quyang County, Zhao Wuji gave priority to the selection of elite soldiers and capable officials in the arrangement of county magistrates, county lieutenants, and various envoys and subordinates.
As for the intensive cultivation of the counties, Han Qian officially divided each county into ten to fifteen townships. This was mainly due to the fact that Han Qian had a large number of grassroots backbones under him. On the one hand, it came from his family soldiers.
Disciples, the long-term training of Zuo Si's disciples, on the one hand, comes from the promotion of grassroots military attachés and elite veterans. It can be arranged, and it must be arranged.
At the same time, Han Qian can ensure that his tentacles can reach every mountain and every stream in Xuzhou...
Of course, with the establishment of three-level institutions at the township, county and state level, the salary of more than 700 subordinate officials, and the abolition of corvee, all public construction projects must be financed and recruited, plus building roads, cultivating new fields, etc.
Expenses, the annual daily expenses of the state government are expected to be as high as 200,000 yuan, which is already a level that even the wealthy states in the world cannot afford.
What's more, after the abolition of corvee service, the state camp maintained the recruitment of 3,000 soldiers, the construction of barracks, the repair of soldiers and warships, and the payment of military salaries. In addition, the veteran soldiers who retired from active service were paid 20 to 50% of the active military salary every year, and then saved every year.
There must be at least an expenditure of more than 100,000 yuan.
In order to save expenses, the adjusted naval force, cavalry battalion and infantry battalion have the establishment of each battalion under 400 people, and the total number of people under 3,000, which is much smaller than the 500-person establishment of the current one-horse infantry battalion.
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Grassroots military attachés and subordinate officials are mainly allocated certain grain fields, but the quantity is extremely limited, even less than the per capita cultivated land in Xuzhou. The main purpose is to ensure that their dependents have small fields for farming. In addition to salaries, other
The family can still have a basic income.
The middle and high-level generals rewarded them with the capital of the Industrial and Construction Bureau and the Official Money Bureau to restrain their impulse to acquire land. They used the dividends from the equity capital to ensure that they had a considerable standard of living and could hire a small number of servants or personal attendants to share the heavy labor.
Han Qian also personally controls more than half of the share capital of the Industrial and Construction Bureau and the Official Money Bureau, but Han Qian only employs a dozen people to work in his house. The guards are borne by the cavalry, and the excess dividends are mainly used to subsidize schools and hospitals.
