On the outskirts of Xuchang, soldiers bid farewell to their families and prepared to set off.
Zhang Gou looked at his shack-like house and said to his family members who were seeing him off: "I will definitely earn some merit when I go north this time. It's okay not to want this dilapidated house that has been passed down for generations."
The house has been passed down for several generations, but it has not been passed down from one family to another. Just like their family's pitiful land - the land does not belong to their family either.
The only way out for world soldiers is to risk their lives to perform meritorious service and then be selected as a soldier.
However, the number of soldiers in the government is limited, and the competition is fierce, but it is not easy to get one.
This is the tragedy of the lower-class military households. Opportunities are so pitiful that they have to fight for their lives.
Wang Cai is still busy in the fields.
"Husband, the team is already shouting." The wife came over, grabbed the sickle, and quickly cut the grass.
Wang Cai looked at his wife's hands, which were as dry as bark from doing farm work, and sighed, then tied up the cut grass.
There was indeed someone urging him, not only the team deputy, but also the team leader came once, but Wang Cai still wanted to seize the last moment and do as much farm work as possible for his family.
After going on an expedition, without a weapon or an eye, who dares to say that he will be able to come back?
Wang Cai continued to bundle the fodder until the passing teammate yelled again, then he reluctantly put down his sickle and left three times at a time.
In a house with four entrances outside Xuchang City, Liu Shan finished his breakfast, picked up a halberd, and waved it twice.
The movements are still in place, but only he knows that as he grows older, his strength is gradually losing.
A person who is fifty years old is no longer young.
He looked down at the halberd in his hand and sighed quietly.
He used it when he was young, and went into battle with the robes to kill the enemy. When he got old, the robes of the past were no longer there, only the halberd was still with him.
If he could be twenty or thirty years younger, he would be exactly where he can be today.
The nephew lacks capable enough relatives. So far, he only has three generals: General Shao Shen, General Shao Guang, and Shao Fan. Unfortunately, the uncle's family also lacks talents and cannot provide him with much help.
His two older sons, one is Liu Bin, who has mediocre talents and looks like a middle-aged man. He is the governor of the military department in Puyang and was promoted by his nephew for the sake of relatives; the other is Liu Fang.
As a law enforcement officer under Shao Fan, he was engaged in shady activities all day long and could not make meritorious deeds and kill the enemy openly.
In the end, it was up to him, an old man who was half buried in the ground, to fight.
It's a pity that he can no longer draw the strongest bow, and his accuracy when riding and shooting is much worse than when he was young. When fighting on foot, he can't fight for too long before he loses his strength, and his brain doesn't feel as fast as before.
Now he can only manage the auxiliary soldiers - at the level of Xuchang Shibing, he is between the combat soldiers and the auxiliary soldiers, closer to the auxiliary soldiers.
"The children's studies must not fall behind." Before going out, Liu Shan looked at the wives and concubines and their families and warned: "Xiao Chong has already become famous in Luoyang at a young age. You should learn from it."
After saying that, he looked at his old wife and said, "I want to go and see the new house in Jishanfang, Bianliang, when I have time. I can also take a look at my brother-in-law and sister."
Bianliang is a new city. According to the plan, it will adopt the Lifang system, similar to Yecheng.
The city has not yet been built, but the foundations of each building have been marked out. Jishanfang is an area relatively close to the palace. Many dignitaries want to buy land and houses here. Liu Shan did not pay, so his nephew directly paid
He was given a piece of land, and he spent his own money to build the house, which is already half completed.
Since last year, a large number of refugees have crossed the river to beg, and the price of labor has been reduced to dust. Many officials and generals have taken out food and hired these people to build houses for themselves, which can be regarded as a private version of work-for-relief. Objectively speaking, the number of Liang Liang has been reduced.
Expenditures on state relief food.
"Okay, husband, be careful," the wife replied.
Liu Shan then looked at the concubines he had taken after coming to Luoyang and said, "Take care of the children."
After that, he strode out.
The soldiers brought the horses, and Liu Shan jumped up and inspected them carefully.
In the sheath were inserted a bow tip, an iron sword, a saber, and a small buckler tied to the side.
In the saddle bag were several short spears for throwing and a small amount of water.
He held a large halberd in his hand and a quiver on his waist.
That's enough, let's go to war!
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The mighty team marched out of Xuchang, joined the first part of Yinqian Zuoying from Xiangcheng, went north from Yique, and headed straight for Heyang.
Yu Liang led a group of scholars and disciples to Bianliang.
After returning to Xuchang at the end of July or early August, he sent people to various places to gather familiar scholars and children together.
Half a month later, almost everyone from near and far had arrived.
Yu Liang is very satisfied with this, and his appeal is increasing every year.
In particular, several scholars who had never had a relationship with him before saw him looking so respectful and respectful. They couldn't help but laugh: They must be scolding me in their hearts, right? Don't think you can deceive me by pretending to be submissive.
, we will see later.
After a brief explanation with them, a number was set: depending on the family's different properties, grains ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 were levied.
This figure hit the psychological bottom line of the wealthy people. After wrangling for a long time, they reluctantly made a small discount, and finally collected more than 700,000 dendrobium of grain - Yu Liang asked the nobles to share it, and the nobles asked the powerful people who attached to them to share it.
This return to Bianliang was at the request of the Duke of Liang. He wanted to bring the top five noble families and powerful sons who donated the most food. He wanted to "employ them according to their talents" - granting the shogunate Cao Cao the position of being a minister of the Liang Kingdom.
The group of people arrived at Guanfeng Hall happily, chatting and laughing on August 20th.
Shao Xun met Yu Liang in the bamboo forest of Lichuntai.
"The Chen family of Xuchang donated 100,000 dendrobium of grain to a person from Liang Guoshe who will be responsible for the communication." Shao Xun looked at the list handed over by Yu Liang and said.
There is no fixed number of people, it can even be said that there are many people, and they are responsible for different affairs.
Among the self-appointed staff such as Prime Minister Yu Chen and Imperial Censor Pan Tao, there was Shiren - they paid their own expenses.
For example, Liu Bai and Yang Kai were Shao Xun's direct subordinates. The former did the work of writing, specializing in drafting orders, while the latter went out in the field to deliver orders, and then retrieved more important memorials from Prime Minister Yu Chen.
Submitted to Shao Xun for reading.
This time, the person promised to Chen's family is to do the same job as Yang Kai, so as to share his pressure.
As Liang Guo became more and more stable and had more and more affairs, new positions would have to be added to everyone. On this occasion, after comprehensive consideration, of course, the person who donated the most food would be given to the Chen family in Ying.
Among the Sichuan tribes, the amount of grain donated ranked second only to the Yu family's 120,000 dendrobium.
"Is the Zao family working so hard? Offering 91,000 dendrobium of grain?" Shao Xun looked at the list and asked again.
"I heard that Zaosong tried his best to persuade the tribesmen and even borrowed 30,000 hu of grain from a close friend." Yu Liang said with a smile.
The Zao family in Changshe was in a bit of decline, and their family was so poor that they had to borrow food...
"You can be appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the General's Office, Mo Cao." Shao Xun shook the list and said.
Mo Cao is a newly established department.
The two Registrar Supervisors (Yang Yu and Jing Chan) of the General's Office have been complaining about the lack of manpower and being too busy to touch the ground, so Shao Xun has just approved the establishment of Mocao, recruiting pen holders, and managing it under the supervision of the Registrar Supervisor - joining the army in the shogunate and other matters
After getting close to the officials and supervising them in depth, some shogunates would set up a record office to specifically manage places where pen masters like Mo Cao gathered.
"Changping Yin family——" Shao Xun pondered for a while and said: "Yin Xi has made many military exploits in capturing the unborn army, so he can be reused. After this battle, he can be transferred back. Cao, the commander of the cavalry of the general's palace, is ordered by
Shi has been promoted to the rank of Peng, and he will take up the post."
Yi Congjun and Zhu Shengjun were Liang's troops, and the cavalry Cao Cao had no control over them.
Theoretically, they can only manage the cavalry outside Liang's territory.
In fact, it is also an incredible power. For example, if the Hu tribes gather to form an army, then they will be directly managed by the cavalry Cao.
After the war and disbandment, the cavalry cao was no longer under the jurisdiction of the cavalry. However, this would be a war era, and the cavalry cao had considerable influence on the Hu tribes. Therefore, the shogunate assistants such as the cavalry commander or the cavalry commander were typical low-status officials.
weight.
Yu Liang felt happy after hearing this.
The Yu family and the Yin family have a close relationship and can be called political allies. If Yin Xi, the deputy governor of the Capture Army, is promoted, the Yu family can also expand their influence.
"Mr. Xun, please give me a record. Wherever there is a vacancy in the Liang Kingdom or the generals and Cao Cao, they will fill it." Shao Xun finally said: "Yuan Du (Yu Mian) has been on many missions to the Shangdang. He has made outstanding achievements and should be appointed.
Don’t drive in Qingzhou. That’s it.”
This was said to Yu Liang, but he was not asked to appoint these officials. He was just an official general and had no such power. Shao Xun just told Yu Liang to listen and let him publicize it, that's all.
Some of these official positions are newly established departments, some are the reform of old institutions, and some are newly acquired sites. They were originally going to be completed one by one in the near future, but they happened to be arranged together due to the time of raising food.
Yu Liang understood, and after discussing the details of the grain and grass collection process, he bowed and left.
The construction of the palace was suspended and he had nothing to do, so now he was solely responsible for raising food.
Tomorrow he will set off for Jiyin and other places to patrol and collect food. The task is still very heavy.
"Yu Yuangui is a little greedy." After Yu Liang left, Yang Xianrong came out of the side hall, sat beside Shao Xun naturally, and said.
"Everyone has shortcomings, just use what he is good at." Shao Xun looked at the official letter on the desk and said: "Xiangcheng collected 130,000 dendrobium grains, Luonan counties 50,000 dendrobium, Yingchuan 70
There are more than 10,000, and Xingyang has 30,000. If the counties and counties in eastern Henan and Yan can raise two to three million dendrobium, it will not be that difficult this year."
"Liu Cong is far inferior to you when it comes to raising food. What can he fight against? Even if Liu Yao takes Jinyang, it will be useless if he has an empty city." Yang Xianrong was also a little surprised.
The Xiongnu fought back and forth, always in Bingzhou and Guanxi, and even reached out to the old land of Shangjun, which had been abandoned long ago, to conquer the local Hu people. When they were closest to the rich land, they were occupied by Shi Le, who was regarded as a partial army.
That meeting in Jizhou.
"What do you think of Liu Yao?" Shao Xun held Yang Xianrong in his arms and asked softly.
"No." Yang Xianrong shook his head and said: "Langjun, you are the Holy Master of Kaiji. Liu Yao is cramped and precarious. How can you compare them?"
Shao Xun felt a sense of satisfaction and said: "One day, I will definitely capture Liu Yao in front of the steps."
Yang Xianrong felt that Shao Xun's question today was a bit strange, but she didn't think much about it and just asked: "When will you go to war?"
"Why are you asking this? It's almost over."
Yang Xianrong looked at him, a little angry.
Before and after the Chinese New Year, he stayed in Bianliang for a period of time. He seldom looked for her, but mostly hung out with Pei. He even occasionally went to Cui's place to have sex with her.
Mrs. Pei got pregnant again a few years later, and she still had nothing to show for her. How could she not be angry?
"Aren't I staying with you these days?" Shao Xun said.
Yang Xianrong was silent for a while and said: "I have asked Guangchengze to prepare 150,000 dendrobium, but it is not more than the Yu family? How do you want to reward me?"
Shao Xun was stunned. Instead of talking about feelings, let’s talk about interests, right? Okay, okay!
"I will accompany you until the expedition." Shao Xun promised.
(My dog ​​is still alive, don’t worry about voting.)
Chapter completed!