In the spring and summer of the fourth year of Yanyou, Shao Heng actively prepared for the war against Yongchen and Chenzhou.
The battle at the east entrance of Tongbai Mountain also turned from attack to confrontation.
After Li Zhigao captured Yiyang City, he was limited by the fact that the east entrance passage of Tongbai Mountain was in disrepair, too rugged, and narrow, and it was inconvenient to transport grain, fodder, and military supplies, so he limited the scale of military deployment to Guanghuo and Guanghuo Prefectures, so he stopped military expansion.
In addition to focusing on the management of Yiyang City, Li Zhigao mobilized tens of thousands of civilians to expand the passage from Lishan County to Yiyang through the east entrance of Tongbai Mountain to prepare for the next military attack.
After the great victory at Wujinling, Huaixi entered a rare period of calm.
The Shouzhou Army shrunk the defense line on the east flank on a large scale, and the Tangyi army was deployed to take over the new jurisdiction. The generals had to be trained and the defense lines had to be organized. There were too many things to do. The construction of the inner line could not be stopped. The accumulation in the early stage
There are also many casualties. If you want to launch a large-scale war in a short period of time, you will inevitably make mistakes.
Compared to the fact that the main force of the Liang Army besieged Luzhou in the southern part of the Jin Kingdom for more than half a year, and the drought in the spring and summer between the Hehuai River and the Huaihe River was severe, it can be said that the weather in Dachu this year is smooth, and the country is peaceful and the people are safe.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Emperor Yanyou and the Queen Mother rarely ordered the four gates of the imperial city to be opened, allowing ordinary people to enter the imperial city to enjoy the lanterns, and the whole world celebrated together.
The palace had already set up a colorful shed on the north bank of the Yudai River. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, courtiers were also invited to board the colorful shed to have a banquet and admire the moon with His Majesty, the Queen Mother and the concubines in the harem.
Emperor Yanyou, the Queen Mother and the concubines of the harem sat in the main booth in the middle, while the princes, ministers and generals sat in the side booths on both sides.
After nightfall, the sky was thin and overcast. Although the full moon was not completely covered by thin clouds, it was as thin as a paper cut and cast a dim reflection in the Yudai River.
Except for the concubines who were usually confined in the palace city and were quite excited to see the bustling crowd on the south bank, for many courtiers, there was not much fun and interest at all.
More people still regard tonight as a special ceremony. The only advantage is that everyone has a seat, and there is no need to stop for a long time like the usual ceremony. People often faint from exhaustion.
Of course, everyone was still chatting and laughing happily.
In the past three or four years, Da Chu has experienced too much turmoil. In chaos, people want to govern, and in chaos, they want peace. Many people here cherish it to some extent to have such a peaceful and quiet night.
Not long after the moon-viewing banquet started, Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Han Wenhuan, Han Daoming, Zheng Yu, Zhang Chao and others were summoned to the main tent to sit down and have a banquet.
Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang led the crowd to the main shed to express their thanks.
After thanking him, Shen Yang was about to sit down, but saw that His Majesty's face was a little gloomy. He felt strange that His Majesty was in a good mood before. Was it because Yuan Guowei stood beside His Majesty and said a few words just now that spoiled His Majesty's mood?
What did Yuan Guowei say?
As the prime minister, Shen Yang sat next to Yang Yuanpu. When he saw Queen Mother Wang Chan'er turning around and talking to the concubines, he lowered his voice and asked Yang Yuanpu: "What is troubling your majesty?"
Yang Yuanpu glanced over with a gloomy expression and said, "Yuan Guowei once again mentioned the matter of returning home to recuperate due to illness. This is really disappointing. Could it be that I am really the one who betrayed him?"
Shen Yang's face also darkened, knowing what His Majesty was upset about.
Zhang Ping, Yuan Guowei, Jiang Huo and others were in charge of internal affairs before the Jinling Incident; during the Jinling Incident, most of the eunuchs in the palace were involved in the rebellion. After the Jinling City was recovered, no matter what, they were just
Zhang Ping, Yuan Guowei, Jiang Huo and others who have the most senior qualifications and greatest achievements can be appointed to take charge of the inner court.
However, Shen Yang also knew that His Majesty was suspicious of Zhang Ping, Yuan Guowei, Jiang Huo and others who had close relations with Han Qian. He was deeply influenced by Han Qian. After he ascended the throne, he vigorously promoted An Xiang, Chen Ruyi and others to divide the positions of Zhang, Yuan and Jiang. authority.
Zhang, Yuan and Jiang were also rare in their knowledge and knowledge. Although they held the positions of chamberlain and young eunuch, they usually spent a lot of time in the palace, leaving many matters to the consuls and eunuchs such as the permanent attendants.
The victory at Wujinling was delayed for more than ten days before the news reached the Privy Council. Anyone with a discerning eye knew Han Qian's fundamental intention of doing this, which was to control the west bank of Chaohu before Zuo Longque's army moved north.
Although no one blamed Han Qian for this matter afterwards, Yuan Guowei was at Wujinling to express his condolences, but did not send back the news in time. It was not obvious that he wore the same crotch as Han Qian without any concealment. ?
Shen Yang thought that His Majesty would find an opportunity to deal with Yuan Guowei, but he did not expect that His Majesty would tolerate it and never mentioned it, but Yuan Guowei repeatedly complained of illness and wanted to return to his hometown for retirement.
Shen Yang pondered for a while and said: "Master Yuan is in his prime, maybe he is just impatient to deal with the complicated affairs in the inner court. Your Majesty may let him supervise the army in Tangyi..."
"Prime Minister Shen, what do you want from your majesty?" Yang Zhitang leaned over curiously and asked.
The appointment of Yuan Guowei as the military envoy to the Tangyi camp must be decided by the Empress Dowager and the Political Affairs Hall. Seeing Yang Zhitang, Zheng Yu and even Han Daoming looked over curiously, Shen Yang did not hide anything and told him directly. .
Yang Zhitang was stunned at first, thinking that everyone knew that Yuan Guowei and the Han family had been wearing the same trousers for a long time. If Yuan Guowei came to Tangyi to supervise the army, how could he exert any more restraint on Tangyi?
However, he then thought about it. It was precisely because of the close relationship between Yuan Guowei and Han Qian that neither Chao Qian nor the generals in Tangyi would strongly refuse to send Yuan Guowei out of prison in Tangyi. In the early stage, it seemed that this would not increase the court's support for Tangyi. Although it is binding, the military supervision system has finally recovered.
As long as the system of prison eunuchs in the inner court and towns is restored, even if it is more symbolic in the early days, as the strength of the center recovers little by little, a multi-pronged approach will be adopted through the system of military supervision and other means. , the binding force on the towns will also be strengthened step by step, thereby weakening the hidden dangers of feudal towns separatizing local areas and competing with the central government.
Yang Zhitang may not have supported Shen Yang in the past, but seeing that after Tangyi and Xiangbei were in Huaidong, their power expanded faster than expected, he felt that Shen Yang's strategy was very good. Together with Zheng Yu, Zhang Chao and others The people looked at each other for a few times, then nodded in agreement.
Han Daoming's face was gloomy. It was too easy for people at their level to figure out the key points. But because of this, unless Yuan Guowei insisted on not following the order, Tangyi would definitely suffer this hidden loss.
However, Yuan Guowei wanted to report illness and return home several times before. Perhaps he was really tired of the intrigues in the court and wanted to return home to take care of himself and live a comfortable life for a few years. But after this incident, if Yuan Guowei still wants to In the eyes of the world, insisting on reporting illness and returning home, will it mean that the Tangyi and Han families secretly forced Yuan Guowei to report illness and return home in order to resist the imperial court's restoration of the military supervision system?
In that case, no matter how you look at it, Tangyi and the Han family will become a little ungrateful and no longer human beings.
Han Daoming didn't express his position on the spot. After all, tonight was just for watching the moon and having a banquet. Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and the others mentioned it casually.
He thought over and over again at night and was undecided on this matter, so he wrote a letter and sent someone across the river to tell Han Qian about it and see how Han Qian would decide.
Han Qian's attitude was very casual. He did not refuse to set up a camp in Tangyi and restore the system of military supervision first, but at the same time he required all the armies near Dachu Town to restore the system of military supervision, and not just target the Tangyi family.
In any case, Tangyi's military camp system and the comprehensive implementation of the recruitment system are only slightly tighter than those in Huaidong under the constraints of the central government. If we really want to fully restore the military supervision system, it will be even more difficult for Li Zhigao, Zheng Hui, Gu Zhilong and others. .
Han Qian took the lead in accepting the imperial court's dispatch of military supervisors and dispatching military supervisors at the same time. For generals who truly independently control military power, the symbolic meaning is stronger, but for those generals who rely more on the central government, there is no resistance. room.
Therefore, throughout the Autumn Period, the most important thing for the Chu court was to send military supervisors to the armies near the town.
Of course, sending an envoy to oversee the army, no matter how symbolic it is, is not just as simple as sending an eunuch from the inner court to the armies.
It is necessary to establish a channel and system for the secret transmission of military envoys. The military envoys themselves also need to be supervised and restricted, and the selection of accompanying eunuchs must also be carefully selected.
Yang Zhitang presided over the Privy Council, and this time he also wanted to take the opportunity to resume the collection of military information from the armies in Lianzhen, the notification system, and many discussions. It was not until late October that Yuan Guowei officially crossed the river and entered. Tangyi supervises the army.
It was another year when the wind was bleak, so Yuan Guowei took a boat to dock at the pier on the west bank of Wushou River, then changed to carriages and horses and rushed to East Lake.
In the fields on both sides of the road, the autumn grain harvest has been completed. New crops such as beans, peppers, and wheat have been planted. Inconspicuous sprouts sprouted from the dark brown soil. There are many farmers wearing brand-new cotton-padded clothes cultivating the fields. .
"In Xuzhou, Tangyi grows cotton and weaves, and its benefits spread all over the world, but the new clothes that every farmer in the field can wear are a rare sight even in the era of great rule!" Yuan Guowei pulled up the reins and followed. Feng Liao and Han Chengmeng said.
In the beginning, Yuan Guowei and Jiang Huo were assigned by Emperor Tianyou to assist the third prince in Linjiang County Prince's Palace. Overtly and covertly, they were in charge of the affairs of Jinyun Tower under Han Qian. Over the years, their relationship with Lin Haizheng, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and other core figures in Tangyi They are all very close.
Even if they are worried about Shen Yang, Yang En and others intend to restore the system of supervising the army, no one in Tangyi is at all opposed to Yuan Guowei's arrival.
Also worried that Yuan Guowei had a grudge, Feng Liao and Han Chengmeng deliberately stayed in Beijing for a few more days during their official business trip to Jinling. They waited until the day when Yuan Guowei officially took office and accompanied him across the river to the north.
Seeing Yuan Guowei praising the farmers in the fields for wearing new clothes, Feng Liao introduced the situation of farming recovery in Tangyi in the past two years.
At present, the autumn grain harvest has been completed in Tangyi. As of mid-October, the cotton and sweet cane planting area in Tangyi has been controlled at 400,000 acres. There has been no large-scale expansion. However, with the construction of weirs, dikes, ditches and other water conservancy facilities, Tangyi will continue to grow this year. More than 400,000 acres of flood and drought grain fields have been added. In addition, the arable land in the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain has been sorted out, and the Shouzhou army farmland taken over by Chaozhou City and Chuzhou City on both sides of the Longtan River, and the Tangyi camp has been established. When the autumn grain is harvested in mid-October, the total number of registered acres exceeds 2.4 million acres.
2.4 million acres of cultivated land, 2.5 million stone rice, wheat, beans, pepper and other crops and more than 200,000 dans of seed cotton were harvested in summer and autumn, and were divided among the 11 counties under the jurisdiction of Tangyi.
, the average yield per mu is almost the same as the cultivated land in Jianghuai, and there is nothing particularly outstanding.
And if there is no large-scale increase in the population in the future, Tangyi will be limited by its young and strong labor force, and it will be impossible to cultivate new fields on a large scale.
However, whether in Xuzhou or Tangyi, the rentier family clans and landlords can be said to be suppressed to the extreme. This also makes Tangyi’s total grain harvest this summer and autumn not high, but it is evenly divided to 30
With a population of 60,000 households, they can barely make ends meet, and they no longer have to suffer from hunger.
This year, the price of grain purchased and imported by Tangyi from Xuzhou and other places was still as high as 500,000 to 600,000 dan, mainly to meet the supply of military grain.
Limited by the size of the young and strong labor force, especially the large number of young and strong labor force who have to be incorporated into the battalion to confront the Shouzhou Army, it is difficult to increase the total size of the fields significantly, but the subsequent farming work will be further refined, for example
Introducing more livestock and livestock power will allow sophisticated agricultural tools to be used on a wider scale. Composting, crop rotation and ditch repair will continue to be improved. Based on the existing population, as long as there is an increase in grain production of 500,000 to 600,000 dan next year, the initial
Ensuring the supply of military rations will not be a problem.
What's more, with a foundation as thick as Xuzhou's support there, Tangyi's most difficult days have been over by now.