Chapter seven hundred and eighty sixth look down at the wind
"His uncle, where did Zhou Kun go? He has been honest and trustworthy all his life. He usually helps uncle with things, always being careful and without making mistakes. Why was he suddenly taken away? What's going on with him? We are orphans and widowed mothers.
How are we going to live?"
After Zhou Kun and Zhou He left with Xu Jin late at night on Shangyuan Festival, no news came back for four days. At this time, Songzhou City was completely taken over by the Yajun. Ordinary civilians were prohibited from leaving their houses and walking around in the streets during the day.
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Zhou Kun's wife was a commoner woman who followed Zhou Kun to take shelter in the Zhou Mansion. Although Zhou Kun was often laughed at for his disability, she found her life peaceful and nourishing. But when she suddenly encountered such a big thing, she panicked.
God, I couldn't help but come to the courtyard again today, grabbed Zhou Shen and cried.
"You really don't know who Zhou Kun usually comes into contact with?" Although Zhou Shen was tired of hearing Zhou Kun's wife cry, he still asked patiently.
The city was now in a terrible silence like before a storm was about to come. With his identity, he could not get much information when he went to the government office. He only knew that the current situation was completely controlled by the crown prince Xu Sizhao and Xu Jin, the commander of Zuodu.
However, except for a few trusted generals, Xu Sizhao and Xu Jin also saw no other officials, making it unclear what the situation was like in the Jiedushi Mansion.
And when Zhou Shen thought about these years, he was completely unaware that Zhou Kun might have an affair with Liang Jun. He also didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse for Zhou Kun and the servant Zhou He that Zhou Kun picked up on the way to escape to be taken away by Xu Jin.
"Squeak!"
They were in the atrium and heard the front door open at this moment. After a while, they saw Zhou Kun's six-year-old son Zhou Tiao running over, throwing himself into his mother's arms and shouting: "Dad, he's back!"
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Zhou Shen and Zhou Kun's wife walked to the front yard, only to see Zhou Kun and Zhou He approaching surrounded by a group of armored soldiers whose uniforms were completely different from those of the Shouzhou army.
Zhou Kun's stooped body was wearing a crimson official robe. Zhou He, who used to look unremarkable, was wearing a general's armor and standing in the vestibule holding a sword. At the age of fifty, his beard and hair seemed to be a little gray.
But he has a burly figure and reveals a sharp edge.
Zhou Shen was stunned for a while, not knowing what happened between Zhou Kun and the servant Zhou He who disappeared for four days and then reappeared.
"Where have you been with the Zuodu commander for the past four days? Why did you come back at this time? What happened to the robes you changed on?" Zhou Shen couldn't help asking, looking at the many sharp figures outside the gate.
The fierce armored soldiers felt weak in their hearts.
"The Shouzhou Army will be dispatched to the designated location within three days to accept the reorganization of Henan Province; after that, there will be soldiers and horses to take over Songzhou City - from this moment on, no surprise, Songzhou has already
It has been officially merged into the Daliang territory..." Zhou Kun said.
"This, this..." Zhou Shen stammered for a long time and didn't know what to say. What happened today? After calming down for a while, he swallowed his saliva and pointed at Zhou Kun. Zhou He asked,
"What the hell is going on with you?"
"We are the advance personnel of Henan. We were ordered to lead 200 troops to Songzhou first to ensure that everything can be transitioned smoothly and no trouble occurs," Zhou Kun said. "We don't have a government office in the city, and the eldest brother's house is still there."
It's quite spacious, so I thought of coming over to use the branch courtyard to supervise the work, and wait until the transition is completed before officially moving to the new government office. I was in a hurry and didn't send someone over to inform my elder brother. I won't blame you, right?"
"How come, you want to supervise the general affairs, how can you borrow the courtyard? Your sister-in-law and I will move to the west courtyard and squeeze in with Zhou Zhi, and you and General Zhou will stay in this courtyard with others..."
"That's fine," Zhou Kun said, "then I need my eldest brother's help to find Mr. Qiu Ji at the end of the alley. We may first need to use his house to imprison a group of prisoners with unpardonable crimes, but it's best for Mr. Qiu to be able to
Don't move around at will while waiting in the house, others can move to their other courtyards in the east of the city first..."
"Qiu Ji has done many evil things and he needs to be punished?" Zhou Shen asked in horror, "Did he do more evil the more he did for the Shouzhou Army in the past?"
"Qiu Ji is temporarily included in the list of war criminals, but how to deal with it in the future will not be known until the Supervisory Office interrogates - Brother, don't worry, you have done a lot of things for the Shouzhou Army in recent years, but these are all
It was specially approved by Luoyang. Of course, it does not mean that the more you do for the Shouzhou Army, the more severe punishment you will receive. It doesn’t matter if you just serve your master and fulfill your duties loyally. The main thing is to see if there are any other evil deeds!"
Zhou Kun comforted him and said.
Zhou Shen thought about it for a long time, secretly feeling that apart from his usual love of drinking wine, he had never done anything bad like bullying men and dominating women, so it should be fine.
Zhou Kun's wife grabbed her son's little hand and stood aside timidly. She couldn't believe that the man in front of her was her husband who was shouted around by his uncle and brother, who was laughed at for his disability but could only smile cowardly?
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As nearly 30,000 Shouzhou troops were gradually deployed to designated locations on both sides of the Wushui River, handing over their armor and weapons for adaptation, south of Bianliang and west of Surabaya, spanning both sides of the Wushui River, a total of eighteen counties were occupied in the southern Henan region.
, finally a peaceful solution was achieved.
On the 12th, Feng Yi rode a tall bay-green horse and entered Songzhou City with Wei Xu's 5,000-horse infantry. He led the horse to stop at the foot of the city tower and looked up at the big beam, the dragon and the blue background flag were officially raised on the south city gate tower.
He looked at Xu Sizhao who came to greet him with emotion and said:
"More than twenty years ago, when you returned to the capital as the son of Marquis Xu, you didn't even show your face. You sent someone to pick up Xiao Baifeng from Chunxiang Tower. Did you know that Zhou Kun and I smashed Xiao Baifeng at that time?
How many gold cakes did we have to hold just to hold a little hand - Kong Xirong and Han Qian were still full of envy at that time, saying that if they become like Brother Si Zhao in this life, life will be worth it."
"Ahem..." Xu Sizhao really didn't know how to answer Feng Yi's words, so he could only pretend to cough for a while to cover up the topic.
Although Han Qian had no intention of proclaiming himself emperor for the time being, the Internal Affairs Bureau of the left and right were upgraded to Zhongshu, Shangshu and other provinces after the year, and the various departments were also upgraded to Zhubu.
Because of Xu Jin and Xu Sizhao's meritorious service in the Song Dynasty, Han Qian issued an edict to confer on them the title of Doctor of the Ministry of War, and appointed them as deputy envoys of the Ministry of War.
The handling of nearly 40,000 Shouzhou troops was first reorganized, and then after a certain period of discipline and education, the vast majority of them were eventually sent back to their local places for resettlement.
Daliang implements a recruitment system, and the scale of active elite troops is strictly controlled and will not expand without limit.
At present, there are more than 250,000 elite soldiers and horses in various camps and some reserve and auxiliary troops. In terms of the scale of soldiers and horses, it is enough to unify the world.
In addition, it is lenient enough to accept the surrender of the Shouzhou Army and not treat it as prisoners. There is no way that after they surrender, they can enjoy the preferential treatment of the elite generals in Daliang.
However, it has not been easy for Xu Mingzhen to maintain the Shouzhou Army in these years, and the survival of the Shouzhou Army generals has also been extremely difficult. At this time, he can get rid of his military service and be reunited with his family, but there is nothing unsatisfactory.
The conditions for dealing with Xu Sijun should be relatively generous.
From the beginning to the end, Han Qian never considered using Xu Si's army to participate in the attack on Bianliang City.
With the Second Central Central Battalion cooperating with the Henan Marching Army, it would not cost much to capture Bianliang City. Han Qian initially hoped that Xu Si's army would be responsible for containing the Shouzhou Army after surrendering, but he did not expect that the Shouzhou Army would surrender.
The speed was not much slower than that of Xu Sijun.
The nearly 60,000 Xu Si troops do not need to undertake combat missions and will be directly reduced to three reserve brigades to take charge of public security in the Xu Si area.
This is a war period, and these three reserve brigades can have a strength of 15,000 soldiers. When the wartime situation is over, they will be further reduced to 2,000 soldiers; but there is also an advantage, that is, the three brigade-level military establishments will be retained.
Can arrange some generals and military attaches.
Han Qian also instructed Zhongshu Province and the General Staff Office to arrange and dispatch them to local areas as much as possible after most of the old generals of Xu Si's army had been transformed.
Unlike the Shouzhou Army, except for a few people such as Xu Jin and Xu Sizhao who will be awarded some insignificant positions or central official positions, most of the generals will be directly demoted to civilians without special arrangements.
Those with traces will also be handed over to the Penal and Prison Departments under the Supervisory Office for liquidation.
But it wasn't Xu Jin. Xu Sizhao didn't want to get some preferential treatment for the subordinates who had followed the Xu family for many years. In fact, when he followed Zhou Kun to Dancheng for negotiations, after seeing the scene of the test firing of two smoothbore cannons, Xu Jin and Xu Sizhao thought in their hearts.
It's better to save yourself first.
Although most of the Shouzhou Army generals did not know the existence of artillery, they behaved calmly when they were taken over and reorganized; even the middle-level military attaches did not have much strong will to resist and quickly accepted the reality.
Counting from the beginning of the Jinling Rebellion, how many times had it been defeated by Han Qian and Liang Jun? Even if the Mongolian army was not destroyed, how many generals in the Shouzhou Army really thought they could fight against the rising Liang Army?
Late at night on the Lantern Festival when Xu Mingzhen died, Xu Hui led his soldiers into Zhao Mingting's house. Zhao Mingting also had a calm look on his face, and even felt like he was finally free...