After October, the first batch of government troops to change defenses arrived in Pingyang. They were Shao Xun's top Luonan killers, and together with their troops, there were a total of 6,000 people.
Yi Congjun arrived from Liyang.
Heijin's left battalion came from Hanoi, and Yinqiang's middle battalion came from Bianliang, replacing the two left and right battalions of Yinqiang.
Ten thousand people from the right guard of the Forbidden Army also arrived in Hedong.
The change of defense is actually a big expense, and as usual it is supported by grain transportation from the four counties of Chen, Liang, Nanton, and Xincai.
From this point of view, the fundamentals are still the best. During the disaster relief in Hebei, tax collection was quick and the officials did not have any constraints and sent a steady stream of grain to Hebei.
Of course, there are more than twenty counties in the world. There are also a lot of holes to be filled among the twenty counties, and the real big head has to come from other places.
On October 20, the first day the Luonan Mansion soldiers arrived, they solved a major case, which opened the eyes of the six thousand soldiers of the Heijin Zuoying who had just arrived.
A group of disgraced scholars were escorted by the government soldiers into a military camp outside the city to be sent to Liu Kelan. The charges were provided by Shao Pi, the governor of the assassination: brewing wine secretly and violating the ban; being drunk in the mourning hall and violating human ethics.
These seven or eight children from the Cai family in Kaocheng, the Luqiu family in Juye, the Zhong family in Changshe, the Feng family in Beihai, and the Xu family in Gaoyang are considered dead.
When an old man died in the Jia family in Xiangling, it was normal for him to make some wine during the funeral. The assassination governor originally turned a blind eye and didn't intend to take care of it.
However, these seven or eight people who came to express their condolences got drunk before leaving, and even ate some Wushisan. After running to the mourning hall, they drank heavily again, and then got naked in front of all the guests, with their hair disheveled, and danced.
At the end, seven or eight naked men danced around the host's female family members...
However, it didn't take long for Pingyang County Magistrate Liu Fang to follow the orders of the old chief Shao Fan and lead troops to the door and arrest all these people. By the way, he also locked up several people from the main Jia family.
If nothing unexpected happens, these scholars' children will pack their bags and go to settle in Langu County, Kelan County. As for whether Amnesty can come back, it depends on the situation. In short, it is not optimistic - the preferential policy is for family members to follow whatever they want.
, and settled in Lan Valley together.
Hou Feihu, the general of Fujun (third rank), had no expression after hearing this.
He had the power to open the shogunate, and the lower-level staff of the shogunate were given more care to his older brothers, or recruited some local tycoons and children from poor families, but the middle- and high-level staff needed to be reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for approval, so there were several children of rich families, so he knew these people very well
of virtue.
A while ago, a son of the Liu family of Pei State was fired because he had sex with the host's concubine at the wine table when he attended a party. A group of people also watched and commented together and exchanged their experiences.
Although this move was not uncommon among scholars, it was still too frivolous, so he was dismissed.
Hou Feihu has a keen mind. He feels that today's arrest of these people is not only because of the listed crimes, but more likely to attack the wealthy families.
Without breaking the rules, fair and just punishment will leave people speechless.
The person who assassinated the governor, Shao Fan, had probably been secretly observing them for a long time.
"General Hou." Wei Zhan, Zuo Cheng, Minister of the Fifth Army, had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Hou Feihu dismounting from his horse, he immediately stepped forward to salute.
Although Hou Feihu is only a third-rank Fujun general, don't forget that he has the privilege of opening a government office.
In the bureaucracy of the Liang State, "Kaifu Yitong Sansi" was an additional title, a casual official, ranking from the first rank. This was given to him as a reward for capturing the enemy's capital, and should not be ignored.
"Mr. Wei." Hou Feihu saluted.
"That's serious." Wei Zhan said with a smile, "General, does he have a nickname?"
"Yuan Ren."
"General Yuan Nen, your Majesty has prepared a palace in the city for you. It is the same house that you lived in before. General Wang (que'er) has just moved out and vacated it. From today until the middle of the twelfth lunar month next year, it will be the general's residence.
"Wei Zhan said: "The palace has all the facilities, if the general has a family -"
"Brought it." Hou Feihu nodded.
Wei Zhan was confused and subconsciously glanced at the driver who was being guarded by his own soldiers.
He inquired that Hou Feihu was slightly younger than King Liang, had been married for ten years, and had a son and two daughters.
The first wife came from a small family and was born into a wealthy family in Luyang. She died of illness during the great epidemic.
When Ye Wang held his funeral, it could be said that generals and schools gathered together, and officials from Hanoi, Shangdang, Jijun and other places also sent people to express their condolences, which was very exaggerated.
It has been almost a year now, and Hou Feihu has not married a new wife, so many people are interested in her.
Wei Zhan was hinted by Shangshu Ling Pei Miao that he planned to marry Wei's daughter Hou Feihu as his wife, but he hadn't taken action yet and planned to test it out first. However, who are the so-called family members he brought today?
Hou Feihu has a delicate mind and is vaguely aware of Wei Zhan's thoughts.
In fact, it was nothing, he planned to straighten his concubine Liu.
Mrs. Liu was the concubine Liu Cong given to him by King Liang, and she had given birth to a son. He still liked Concubine Liu very much.
It was not that there were no people around him to advise him, saying that it was unethical and unethical to take the concubine of an enemy country as his wife, which would affect his future career. However, Hou Feihu came from a grassroots background and was sometimes too emotionally attached. He was determined to make Concubine Liu his head wife and had no intention of marrying a new wife.
Fortunately, Master Shao didn't blame him and even sent someone to give him a gift.
It was better to have Mrs. Liu as his wife than to marry a woman from a wealthy family. He didn't want to get involved in too many troubles.
Wei Zhan calmed down his thoughts and added: "There are 40,000 dendrobiums of millet, 20,000 dendrobiums of wheat, more than 10,000 dendrobiums of millet and beans, and 50,000 bundles of hay in the camp..."
"There are already 20,000 bundles of arrows required for training. If the swords, guns, swords and halberds are damaged, someone can be sent to the Imperial Household for repair. Next year, an ordnance supervisor may be set up. The Imperial Household will no longer have jurisdiction over ordnance matters. There will be dedicated personnel at that time.
Come and hand over..."
"There are also herbs, quilts, shoes and boots..."
Wei Zhan spoke eloquently, Hou Feihu only nodded slightly, and then handed the order to his staff to check and deliver.
"Is there any movement at the rope head?" Seeing the howling wind and cold weather, Hou Feihu was about to enter the camp and asked casually.
"Yesterday, an envoy from Helan Aitou came and said that he had entered Shengle at the end of last month. Wuyuan County Duke Tuoba Yihuai supervises the country's administration, with Helan Aitou as the assistant prime minister. I don't know how many more generals entered the palace.
You can ask your Majesty when you have an audience." Wei Zhan replied.
"This happened!" Hou Feihu was a little surprised and a little excited.
"Who says otherwise!" Wei Zhan said with a smile: "He Lan looked forward and backward, but he finally entered Shengle before winter. According to what the captive envoy said, there was no resistance wherever he passed. Xianbei near Shengle, the Xiongnu
, Wuhuan adults came to the city one after another to celebrate, Tuoba Yihuai has become a popular event."
"After winter, will we no longer be able to fight?" Hou Feihu asked.
"The grassland mostly rains in summer and snows in winter. Once winter comes and the weather is cold and freezing, you may be able to fight, but it will probably be very difficult. Therefore, Helan Aitou also saw the right time before entering the Shengle, which is to bet on Tuoba Heli winter.
Stop the troops and ignore him." Wei Zhan said: "And spring is not a good time to use troops. In this way, Helan Aitou had half a year to reorganize his internal affairs, appoint officials and make wishes, and consolidate his power. In the early summer, even if Helan Aitou
It’s not that easy to send troops to attack.”
"That's it." Hou Feihu said with a smile: "Ai Tou is a bit clever. If your Majesty attacks Dai State next year, it will be twice the result with half the effort, but I don't know if the food, grass and equipment are ready."
To attack the Kingdom of Dai, considering the siege, land occupation, and large-scale field battles, at least 40,000 soldiers would be dispatched. Including auxiliary troops, it would be almost 100,000.
These 100,000 people consume 300,000 hu of grain a month. If we prepare a year's supply, it will be 3 million hu of grain.
In order to send these three million hu of grain from Henan to the front line, you need to prepare more than 15 million hu of grain and beans and more than 200,000 young and strong slaves, because most of the food will be consumed on the road.
Well, we haven't considered the consumption of war horses and draft animals in the army. Those animals have a huge appetite.
Of course you can feed fodder, but you can't do it all the time. When there is a military emergency and you don't have time to herd the horses, you have to feed grain. When it's not that urgent, you can go out to herd the horses.
To put it bluntly, this is not much more than the food consumed by Hebei for disaster relief in a single year.
The only people who think that fighting a war requires little food are the children of scholars who are not familiar with the world.
Of course, all this is Hou Feihu's guess. King Liang may not send out 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers, because he still has to guard against the Huns and Jiangdong.
The final scale of the battle will be much smaller, but the consumption will still be huge, and there will not be another large-scale disaster relief effort.
Hou Feihu finally entered the camp in the evening.
The military camp is located on the bank of Fen River in the east of the city. On the river there are forests of rafts and oars. A large amount of grain harvested from Hedong, Pingyang and even Hongnong counties is loaded on ships and transported north to Jinyang.
War is a ladder for warriors to climb up. This is what Master Shao often said, and Hou Feihu believed it deeply.
Without war, he would not "open the government and unite the three divisions".
Without war, he would not have beautiful women who are proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Without war, he would not live in a tall mansion with hordes of servants.
Without the war, he and his descendants might have been farming in the East China Sea, wandering among the ravines after being conscripted.
People are different.
He had been fighting for twenty years, and had achieved such unparalleled achievements as capturing the enemy's capital. In the end, his family fortune was not as large as that of a newborn baby from a wealthy family.
Is it fair? Fair, but unfair.
The ancestors of these wealthy families may have made great achievements in the past, and they have been through fire and blood. They were also good men who dared to fight and fight. They were also good at running the family business, and their development has become a suffocating behemoth.
Sounds fair.
However, their descendants did the absurd act of getting drunk before their death, lying naked in the woods and springs all day long, squandering pleasures, which is shocking.
This is unfair again.
Hou Feihu also wants to fight for the interests of his descendants. It may take several generations for his family to accumulate the family fortune of today's aristocratic family, or it may never happen because times have changed.
But no matter what, there are only so many things. If someone else takes one more bite, he will take one less bite. This is a very clear truth.
This was the main reason why he didn't want to get involved with a wealthy family like the Wei family.
Concubine Liu was born in the emerging Liu family. After the official Guanglu of Han Dynasty, she was the granddaughter of Liu Yin, the eunuch of the Huns. Her family background and beautiful appearance were enough for him.
The Xinxing Liu family has been destroyed.
Xinxing has become uninhabited, and all the ancestral property has been lost in one fell swoop.
Most of the family property in Pingyang was also confiscated, and the rest was used by the Liu clan to barely make ends meet. Their lives were not even rich, they were just ordinary well-to-do people.
Such a woman, who is talented, beautiful, and famous, but has no family power, is the most suitable candidate for him.
After night falls, the sound of trackers on both sides of the Fen River continues all night long and never stops.
The ladder for the warrior group to rise has appeared again.
In the past twenty years, there have been too many legends about penniless people breaking into houses.
Opportunities don't come often, so every time they come up, you have to seize them.
At the beginning of winter, news came again from the grassland: Tuoba Heli sent troops to attack Shengle in the west, and Helan Aitou personally led the troops to repel them.
The internal conflicts of the Dai country finally evolved to a substantial stage after two years of interference from external forces.
Chapter completed!