"As the Grand Tutor of the Emperor of Donghai, the emperor entrusted military and political affairs to the world. Since we are loyal to the Great Jin Dynasty, we must naturally respect the orders of His Highness of Donghai. However... in the chaos of the times, how can we make the Luoyang Central and the King of Donghai understand our feelings still need to be carefully considered, and there is no need to rush for a moment." Lu Yao said slowly.
After hesitating for a moment, Fang Qinzhi nodded and responded: "Yes, yes."
After Emperor Hui passed away, King Yuzhang ascended the throne and inherited Dabao. King Donghai then led his troops out of Xuchang to control the government. According to Lu Yao's intention, it seemed that while he was giving up the title of King Donghai, he also planned to communicate with the Luoyang court at the same time. Considering General Yingyang, the prefect of the county, and the military positions of the county, the supervisor of Shanggu, Guangning, and the military positions of King Donghai were actually unilaterally granted by King Donghai. After so sincerely winning over King Donghai, the young general in front of him seemed not so keen on... This attitude really made Fang Qinzhi feel quite unfathomable.
While concentrating on his mind, Lu Yao sat down again and continued, "Fang Hu'er is restless and the northern border is uneasy. I am the prefect of the Dai County, intending to integrate the Hu and Jin tribes in Ruyuan and have some relief. Mr. Fang thought, what is the urgent thing to do to achieve this goal?"
Fang Qinzhi finally waited for Lu Yao to ask about political affairs. But when he was about to quote the classics and long discussions, he saw Lu Yao's confident smile. So he suddenly realized something in his heart, bowed his head deeply, and said seriously: "What you continue to do is to show that nothing is to do!"
"Show it is nothing?" Lu Yao repeated meaningfully.
"What you need to do is to show that nothing is done." Fang Qinzhi responded.
This sentence immediately made Lu Yao's talent more respectful to the other party's Qinzhi.
Lu Yao and Shao Xu had planned for a long time before sending troops to completely conquer the Jin people in the northern border and how to manage the vast areas of Ruyuan and Bashang grasslands.
Although Ruyuan was included in the sphere of influence of the Dai County Army, the Jin family on the grassland had been isolated from the court for decades and did not have much intention of loyalty to the emperor. They were also connected through marriage and relying on clan authority and autonomy, even if outsiders had authority, it was difficult to suppress them. This time was the so-called special moment of "governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food", that is, governing the place was like cooking a small fish. Once it was stirred too much, it would be spoiled and uneducated. According to the explanation of Wang Bi, a metaphysicist of the previous dynasty, the more you need to manage a complex environment, the more you should not stir it randomly. This is because once it is restless, it will inevitably cause panic and drive the situation to worsen.
Therefore, Lu Yao planned to maintain the status quo and fully respect the status of each family, and did not make any changes in everything according to the old rules. First, settle the entire grassland before we could negotiate various specific policies. However, he never expected that Fang Qinzhi, the businessman he ran into after coming to Ruyuan, had a completely consistent opinion with him. Lu Yao couldn't help laughing: "Okay!"
The next day, the guards near Lu Yao presented a document written by himself, Fang Qinzhi and Fang encouraged him. Fang Jianzhi's three brothers were determined and studious, and had talented talents and responsibilities to work in General Yingyang's mansion. The three of them were overjoyed and immediately held a banquet to celebrate. During the meal, Fang Qinzhi boasted and praised himself. When facing the court, he was grateful to the prefect Lu and flattered him. Fang Jianzhi and the other two were grateful to their brothers and chanted long songs on the spot to show their friendship. Their words were surging like rivers and seas, which was absolutely distorted.
Obviously, as Fang Qinzhi said, these three brothers have been pretending to be chattering for more than 20 years and have already pretended to be accustomed to it.
Apart from referring to the three Fang brothers as officials, Lu Yao did not have any other moves. He stayed in Ruyuan for several days, and sang endlessly with refugee leaders from all walks of life. In addition, he spent most of his time visiting the scenery, like a scholar who went out for a walk.
On the fifth day, Lu Yao proposed to return south. On the evening of that day, local clan leaders gathered to hold a banquet for Lu Yao to practice. When he was drunk, someone finally asked a question that had been held for several days: Since Ruyuan returned to the imperial court, how would the prefect want to manage it? Lu Yaoquan replied casually that the prefect of Dai County would send various official positions to report, and everyone would be appointed as it suits. As for the governance of Ruyuan, what is Deyuan Duke, and what will happen in the future, there will be no variance. As soon as this statement came out, many clan leaders present suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere of the banquet became a little warmer.
The next morning, Lu Yao set out to return south, and Wei Cao also bid farewell to the clan's children and accompanied Lu Yao to the south. His official position as the left general and the Marquis of Dingxiang was granted by the court during the Taixi period. Just for the position, it was really terrifyingly high. Although the official may not take this official title that is usually given to foreign races seriously, even for the decent court, he would never be able to serve as a subordinate of Lu Yao. He could only follow the army under the banner of returning to his hometown of Dai County so that Lu Yao could consult on matters.
There were dozens of children from the Jin family in the Ruyuan who gathered urgently. Each of these young people brought their own armor and horses, and some even carried several followers. They all said that they were intentionally committed to joining the army under Lu Yao's command. Lu Yao knew that they were the protons sent by the various families in Ruyuan.
As for Lu Yao's own idea, he did not think that one or two hostages could ensure the loyalty of the entire family, but since the Ruyuan families had such a reciprocity, there was no need to deliberately refuse. If we consider it more deeply, the behavior of these families to send protons must have been tacitly approved by Wei Cao. It is very likely that Wei Cao also intended to use this to tell the Dai County regime that he had no intention of undermining the control of the imperial court and kept the tens of thousands of Jin people in Luyuan for a long time.
Therefore, Lu Yao did not pretend to refuse, and directly formed a team of dozens of young men, asking them to elect grassroots officers such as Shi Zheng and Soldiers, and chose a skillful archery and horse as the team leader. This cavalry team belonged to He Yun's troops, and on the way back to Dai County, they would take on Lu Yao's own escort mission.
In addition to these young protons, powerful refugee leaders such as Fan Ban, Jia Qing, and Li Yi also went south with Lu Yao. This is because Lu Yao announced that he would survey the entire Bashang grassland. Regardless of agricultural and pastoral land, the three tribes of the Fan family, Jia and Li were not originally under the control of the Wu family. Most of their family tribes gathered in the southern part of the Bashang grassland, and they fled to Ruyuan for refuge due to the attack of the Xianbei. They each had scattered but large amounts of arable land, and were urgently needed to be recognized by the county. Although the area of ​​the Bashang grassland, land survey was probably not a three or five years long, the leaders of each family naturally had to prepare for the preparations to avoid losing time.
The last one to fall into Lu Yao and his group was a team of hundreds of blacksmiths. The Jin people who were captured on the grassland for many years were all the most important. For a long time, they were strictly supervised by the Xianbei tribes and engaged in high-intensity work without any personal freedom. Life was extremely difficult. During this turmoil, many craftsmen were killed by the manic Hu Er, but a considerable number of them were supported by other Jin clans and fled to Ruyuan to survive. Lu Yao knew the importance of these blacksmiths more clearly than anyone else. He asked the Fang brothers to come forward to invite them and selected more than a hundred of them who were outstanding in craftsmanship and were willing to contribute to the Daijun army, and they were all included in the craftsman camp in the Daiwang City of Luochuan, Daijun.
If a craft wants to do things well, he must first sharpen his tools. Since the Han Dynasty, various prefectures and counties have had iron officials, salt officials, work officials, water officials and other departments, and they are responsible for the management based on the number of affairs. By the time of Emperor Cheng of Han, there were a total of 49 iron officials in the world, and countless copper and iron were produced each year. Among them, the iron officials in Daling County, Taiyuan State have been ongoing to this day. After several destructions, they have gradually resumed production in the hands of Yue Shigong, providing sufficient weapons for the Jinyang army.
According to the people of Daijun Township, there were several small iron ore near the Warrior Fort in the southeast of Daijun during the Wei Dynasty. Although there was no excellent iron ore output, there were huge mines in various places around Daijun, such as Fanyang, Yan State in Youzhou, Zhongshan, Changshan in Jizhou, etc., and they were mined for hundreds of years. Lu Yao planned to use the caravan power of the three brothers of the Fang family to acquire iron ore from these counties and states, and then concentrate them in Dai County for smelting, so as to meet the needs of the military and civilians.
Warriors Fort has the benefits of water transportation, and there are many trees nearby, which are suitable for the Iron Officials, and may concentrate the craftsmen in there to manage them in a unified manner. Lu Yao thought this way, and even suddenly had an idea: Maybe he could simply change the Warriors Fort to Iron Fortress to show his importance to the craftsmen?
The group winds southward and returns victoriously when the autumn is clear and cool. Lu Yao can't help but feel a little complacent. About five days later, he arrives at the Daijun Army camp located in the center of the Bashang Grassland. Lu Yao joins the army here and stays for another two days, waiting for the horse exploration sent by Zhu Sheng to Youzhou to pay back.
In the days after the defeat of the Youzhou Army, Zhu Shengke was not idle. He used a large number of Xianbei prisoners of war captured on the battlefield to inquire about the military situation in Youzhou from many parties, and sent a large number of soldiers who were disguised as success and defeat to chase them along the route of Wang Jun and others' escape. Although it was far from enough to fully grasp the virtual reality of Youzhou, at least 70% or 80% of the large-scale military trends were discovered.
By combining these detailed reports and confirming each other, we can understand that Wang Jun and Duan Ji and Lu Jun did not enter Ji County after fleeing. Perhaps they were unwilling to be willing to be in this rare defeat. They rectified their troops in Anle and Hu Nu, and urgently recruited many cavalry from the subordinate tribes of various families. Once, they sent part-time troops to the direction of Junduxing, the gateway of the eastern mountainous area of ​​Daidi, to enter Shanggu County. But after all, their losses on the grassland were too heavy, and the noble chiefs of Duan and Yuwen tribes were very dissatisfied with this. Therefore, they quickly retreated the army, and even the Xianbei subordinate tribes of Duan and Guangning counties, which were originally scattered in ancient times, showed signs of contraction. Now it seems that unless Wang Jun takes a desperate bet and forces his subordinate tribes to launch a large number of troops, it is impossible to launch another attack.
This reminded Lu Yao that since he was ordered to supervise the military affairs of Dai County, Shanggu and Guangning, he must include Shanggu and Guangning in the scope of military control, and at the same time, he must resolutely curb the power of the Youzhou army east of the military capital Xing and must not relax a little.
This is the next direction of the Dai County Army's action. However, considering that the autumn harvest is approaching, the Dai County Army is unable to make a large-scale mobilization. Lu Yao's character and expertise of the generals under General Lu Yao pondered over and over again, and finally planned to transfer a thousand people from Chen Pei's troops to fight and recruit a number of Miscellaneous Hu cavalry to assist. After all, Youzhou and Dai County were under the rule of the court. Lu Yao was ordered by the court to take charge of the military affairs of the three counties. If Wang Jun had not been under the banner of the Xianbei people, he would not have dared to openly obstruct it. Chen Pei should have been enough with these troops.
Three or five days later, the Dai County Army basically adjusted from the fatigue after the war, and Lu Yao prepared to raise his troops and return.
At this moment, Shao Xu's messengers followed one after another.
"What happened to Dai County?" This time, the Dai County Army went north, and Shao Xu was in charge of local common affairs. Generals Liu Fei and Chen Pei were the two generals who led the headquarters to stay. The Zahu tribe of Dai County had long been cleared out. Murong Long City to the west was an ally. The east was relied on Luoshui, Luanshui and other rivers to be isolated from the Hu clan of Guangning County, and should be in a relatively safe state. However, when Shao Xu suddenly sent an envoy, Lu Yao was inevitably a little nervous.
The lack of scholars in Dai County was revealed at this time. The messenger was a frigid old soldier. When Lu Yao asked, he could not tell his face that he had a long time. He repeated the sentence: "The Chief Secretary said, please return to Dai County quickly."
Lu Yao had just sent him to rest, and another messenger came. He still didn't know anything about it, and said, "Please go back to Dai County as soon as possible."
The news of Lu Yao's victory in the northern border has long been sent to inform Shao Xu. Shao Xu just replied to the letter and sent a few food and fodder with the letter. This Shao Gong has been ups and downs in the officialdom for several years, and has been chaotic and deep in his life. He is not the kind of person who is shocked when encountering problems. Lu Yao thought about it and thought, but he didn't know why Shao Xu was so anxious. He summoned Xue Tong, Ding Miao and other generals to discuss, but the generals were confused.
The more this happened, Lu Yao became more shocked and uneasy. Fortunately, the army was ready to return to Dai County, and all preparations were ready. So he gathered the cavalry in the headquarters and selected hundreds of additional horses to set off immediately. Before leaving the camp, Shao Xu's third group of messengers arrived again.
What was so nervous that the messenger ran hundreds of miles to urge him? Lu Yao tried hard to suppress the anxiety in his heart and whipped it and said, "Bring the messenger!"
The third messenger was a literati. He rode his horse for several days, and both of his strands were worn out by the saddle, and he was bleeding. He heard Lu Yao's call, and he limped to Lu Yao's horse to bow down. When Lu Yao saw it, he realized that this person was Shao Xu's close tribe, and he was the secretary of the prefect of the county prefect, and he could contact various confidential reliable officials.
Lu Yao jumped off the horse, helped the messenger up, first said with great difficulty, and then asked in a deep voice: "What happened to Dai County? Please tell me quickly!"
Chapter completed!