"General Manager Pei, seeing that things are coming to an end, how busy are you with the immigration matter?" In the Weishui camp, Shao Shude asked after he had just finished beating his muscles.
"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, the immigration to Guandong is still going on." Pei Tong said: "The war in Henan is endless, and many people are rushing to Shaanxi and Guo with their families. In the river, the horses have been closing in. However, the price of food has skyrocketed, and the cost has become more and more expensive.
Come higher and higher.”
"It doesn't matter, money is an external possession. Even if you don't make much money from selling horses, it doesn't matter. Someone just wants someone." Shao Shude sat down and said, "As long as the accounts are clear."
"Commander, there are more than a thousand families of sergeant relatives coming from Kanto this year, and they should be the last batch. The rest will not come if they don't come."
"Okay, my son, I will bring my family over to have a happy birthday. I feel relieved about a big thing."
Pei Tong also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. It is too difficult to find relatives of sergeants. Some people don't know where their families live at all. They only know a certain county in a certain state. As for which township or village, sometimes they have to rely on fellow villagers to remind them. In addition, this
In recent years, people have moved and fled from time to time. When they get to the end of the country, they may not be able to find anyone, and the cost is extremely high.
As for those who died of illness during the period, there were even more horse guards for the bandits. Accumulated over several years, this pension was not a small amount. Now the horse-selling business of the Dingnan Army is not so much a subsidy for the military's shortages as it is a
It's looking for people and transporting people.
Shaanxi, Guo, Hezhong, Zhaoyi, and Hebei are considered friendly forces. Hedong is barely neutral. In Heyang, bribing the local generals is not a big deal. They just spend a year selling large amounts of money.
The funds obtained from a hundred war horses. If it were further away, what would be the cost? I don’t dare to think about it, and I don’t have the ability.
The family members of the sergeants who came from other towns were naturally arranged to go to Xiazhou.
However, this matter has become more and more a worry for Shao Shude. The population of Xiazhou has skyrocketed. What should we do?
There are now more than 30,000 troops, and the sergeants have not completely moved their families to Xiazhou. After all, selling houses and fields in other places is not something that happens overnight. But as far as the sergeants' true intentions are concerned, they must want to serve as yamen soldiers in Xiazhou.
Get your family members here too. Otherwise, when the boss gives you leave, you won't have time to go home and meet your family members.
In the foreseeable future, the population of Xiazhou will definitely continue to rise. This will not exceed the carrying capacity of the land, but what about in the future? Is it possible to follow Xixia and build a new ruling center in Huaiyuan County (Yinchuan) to allow a huge number of yamen
It is indeed a good idea to move military families and bureaucracies there. When it is impossible to go south to Guanzhong, the Yinchuan Plain can indeed feed a large population. Moreover, with the advantage of water transportation, money and food from each county can be quickly gathered into the political center.
A hundred thousand troops and hundreds of thousands of dependents are no problem.
The development of Lingzhou will be accelerated!
"In addition to the relatives of the sergeants, we also collected more than 2,300 households in Hebei, Henan, and Zhaoyi." Pei Tong reported again.
Most of these Guandong Han people will be sent to Lingzhou, and a small number will be on the newly cultivated land in Youzhou. In the first half of the year, Lingzhou defeated several tribes and established 4,000 households and 20,000 people in the farming party. But this kind of
Things can't be done again, so if you can get this one, you will laugh. If you want to organize households and people later, you will have to use gentle methods.
After these Han people from Guandong are sent there, plus the original local population, the population of the six counties and two cities in Lingzhou should exceed 80,000. A land of 10,000 people is still pitifully small.
By the way, the 1,500 shipbuilders and navy family members collected are already on their way. Together with the more than 2,000 craftsmen who were just sent away yesterday, the total population of the eight places in Lingzhou should be over 100,000.
I just don’t know where the ordinary households in Guanzhong who took the Fangfang road are. There are more than 2,500 households, and recruitment is still continuing. They will first go to Xiazhou to provide work as relief for two or three months, and wait until
After spring, head to Lingzhou to cultivate fields.
To put it bluntly, because my arrival has made the situation in Guanzhong less chaotic, there will definitely not be too many people willing to leave, which is a bit of a pity. But I can't force them to use force to rob the craftsmen, which has already ruined my reputation.
It has been a little affected, but it is still within an acceptable range. If we continue to "kidnap" ordinary households to Lingzhou, it will be really ruined.
We can only coax and scare them.
I hope that before I leave Guanzhong, I can raise five to six thousand households. That would be very satisfying.
At this time, a scout came to report that more than two thousand cavalry appeared east of Yueyang. Judging from their attire, they were three Hu cavalry from Shatuo and five from the north.
"Let's go to Huayue Temple." Shao Shude put on his military uniform with the help of his soldiers, then got on his horse and left the camp with his soldiers and two thousand cavalry from the Tielin Army.
Huayue Temple was the location of this meeting.
The temple is not big, but it has been well-known since the dynasty. Cen Shen and Yuan Zhen both wrote poems. Shao was arty and had previously asked Lu Siye to write it down silently and read it several times.
The cavalry of the Tielin Army were led by Li Tangbin, who had served as the Youyi Envoy in the Wuwei Army. They had experienced battles for many years and were very elite. With them by his side, Shao Shude felt relieved.
Li Keyong left behind the large army and rode lightly, but he was not afraid. What was he afraid of?
After arriving at the mountain gate of Huayue Temple, Shao Shude first stopped to admire it, but he saw green pines and cypresses, and dead vines surrounding the gate. If he came here in summer, there should be bamboo forest paths, flowers, birds, fish and insects, but they were all in one place.
A nice summer resort.
However, such a peaceful place in the Brahma Sect is now occupied by a group of ruthless warriors, which is a bit disgraceful.
"Who among you, do you know what the Prince of Lingwu County is doing here, blocking the mountain gate? Get out of the way!" Lieutenant General Li Renfu stepped forward, pointed at the ten Hedong sergeants at the door, and scolded.
Shao Shude looked on calmly.
Although the soldiers looked respectful and obedient in front of him, Shao Shude was also a martial artist, so he naturally knew what kind of temperament a warrior had. He would fight if he disagreed with him, let alone a soldier and general who had always been arrogant.
The Hedong sergeant guarding the mountain gate should be Li Keyong's pro-soldier. It is said that Li "all the pro-soldiers are from the border area." The pro-soldiers are different from the pro-soldiers, but they should also be selected from them. Look at the attire of these people at this time
, some people look no different from Han people, while others still look like typical Hu people. After hearing Li Renfu’s scolding, their faces were a little hesitant, and when they were about to get angry, they saw Sergeant Hezhong, who was also waiting outside the mountain gate, hurried forward.
smooth things over.
"Shuai Shao is here, go and inform Wang Shuai and Li Shuai quickly." A man dressed as a scholar came forward, stopped between the sergeants on both sides, and said with a smile: "Wang Zhen, a member of the Hezhong shogunate, has met the king of Lingwu County."
Shao Shude nodded and glanced at the Hedong sergeants.
There was a moment of silence, and then a general came forward, bowed and said, "Li Siyuan of the Hedong Dental School has met the Prince of Lingwu County."
Shao Shude looked at him for a while and said warmly: "General Li's duties are very good."
Li Siyuan was astonished and looked up at Shao Shude. Seeing his serious expression, he said, "Thank you, Prince Lingwu, for your compliment."
He came from a very low background. He served in the Zhenwu Army with Li Guochang when he was young, and later participated in the rebellion of the Datong Army. During the siege and suppression of several towns, he survived by chance and ran north to the grassland, where he was adopted as an adopted son by Li Keyong. Part 1
During the Yuanyi Incident, he risked his life to escort Li Keyong out of trouble and made great achievements. He is currently in charge of the personal soldiers, and his position is not high, but his importance is beyond doubt.
Feng Yin and Li Renfu also looked at this "fellow" with scrutinizing eyes. Li Siyuan also looked back at the two of them, obviously understanding the other's identity.
"Go in, don't keep the two commanders waiting." Shao Shude said. Then, he entered the mountain gate under the protection of a large group of soldiers.
Li Siyuan looked at Shao intently for a while, feeling a little envious in his heart.
This kind of power can only be achieved by important ministers and military commanders.
I heard that the Dingnan Army marched south and north and repeatedly defeated stubborn enemies. The cavalry army envoy Zhe Siyu defeated Dangxiang in Hexi and built a base in Beijing to boast of his achievements. The Wuwei army envoy Lu Huaizhong attacked at night in the wind and rain, defeated Shuofang's army and killed the capital general Kang Yuancheng.
This king of Lingwu County was even more remarkable. He defeated Li Tangbin in Sanyuan County, retreated Zhu Wen in Tongzhou, and the battle of Shenggaoyi spread to Guanzhong, capturing and killing more than ten thousand general Meng Kai. Then he marched north to the grassland and marched westward to You.
Prefecture, conquered Hengshan Dangxiang. This time he went south to Chang'an, defeated Fengxiang's army in Weibei, and killed Li Changfu.
Li Siyuan secretly sighed. He had only been in the army for four or five years. Apart from a sense of bravery, he knew almost nothing. After returning from Bianzhou, he was quite valued by his lord and began to learn how to fight against thousands of enemies in battle.
Ability. Speaking of which, this is enough to be envied by people of the same age. There are many brave and brave people in the world, but how many of them can learn the skills of fighting? It is impossible to say that they will be dead soldiers until they die, and they will waste their blood in vain.
If you, Li Siyuan, can learn, you will have a chance to get ahead, and there is no guarantee that your name will be remembered in history in the future. If Wang Siyuan cannot learn, he will not be able to get ahead. He will die on the edge of a sharp edge in battle, and his bones will be buried among the weeds. He will not leave his name in the history books, or even
Few people will remember you in a few years.
The cruelty of the world is evident.
But compared with the virtuous commander Shuo Sai like Prince Lingwu, the gap is more than just Daoliji!
The cavalry envoy Oritsugu Yu was not much older than me. He heard that a few years ago he was just a talented man who defected to Lingwu County King with hundreds of cavalry. As a result, five years later, he was already the cavalry envoy and became famous.