Chapter 227 First recruit a hundred thousand troops
The first to bear the brunt was the team of hundreds of servants with completely different spirits. These servants all had their own horses, and Tang Dingwei gave an order.
Hundreds of servants jumped on their horses, looking even more powerful than the regular army of the imperial court.
Yue Buqun saw this scene in his eyes and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
If such a team of servants were to face a Jianghu sect, to be honest, Yue Buqun felt that except for a few sects, there really weren't many sects that could withstand it.
If nothing else, let’s just say that their Huashan faction is absolutely no match for such an elite team of servants.
These servants are definitely different from those that Yue Buqun saw when he followed Li Huan in Fujian.
Although in Fujian, the servants raised by local powerful men may not be any worse than the servants of the Tang family in terms of bravery.
But there are obvious differences between the two.
The servants raised by the rich and powerful in Fujian are just a bunch of rabble with no courage, and the servants of the Tang family are obviously elite soldiers in the army. Not only are they extremely brave, but more importantly, these people are proficient in military formations.
, even if they only have one point of power, by uniting them, they can exert several times the power.
Just when Yue Buqun was distracted watching the servants getting on their horses, Han Le beside him gently pushed Yue Buqun and said: "Mr. Yue, get in the car! It's time for us to set off."
It turned out that a carriage was stopping in front of them at this moment, and Han Le was looking at him.
When Yue Buqun came back to his senses, a gust of wind blew by. Yue Buqun couldn't help coughing, nodded to Han Le, and then walked into the carriage.
The carriage is not big, but it can accommodate Han Le and Yue Buqun.
It can be seen that the Tang family takes good care of these accountants who are from literati backgrounds. To be precise, most of these accountants are helpless people. If they are allowed to ride horses, I am afraid that all of them will have to ride from the horse.
If it falls, it will kill you half to death.
The large group of people were obviously in a hurry to get on their way, so naturally they couldn't let the accountants, who were out of breath after walking a few miles, go on foot, so the Tang family specially equipped carriages for these accountants.
The group of servants outside the car, surrounded by more than a dozen carriages, left the Tang family's large manor in the dark.
These people are not in Suidezhou County, but in a large manor outside the city. Otherwise, such a big movement from the Tang family would still alarm many people, even if it was done in the evening.
Looking away from the outside, Yue Buqun couldn't help but look at Han Le with a bit of surprise: "Brother Han, what are we going to do?"
Yue Buqun had suppressed his curiosity from the beginning, and now naturally couldn't help but ask Han Le, an old man who had stayed in the Tang family for many years.
Han Le sighed slightly when he heard this: "I don't know which family is going to be unlucky this time."
Yue Buqun couldn't help but be stunned for a moment after hearing this, with a look of surprise and confusion on his face.
Han Le saw Yue Buqun's reaction in his eyes, smiled slightly and said, "Brother Yue thinks that the Tang family has almost become the most powerful person in Yulin Road. What do you rely on?"
Yue Buqun raised his eyebrows, looked at Han Le and said, "Could it be killing?"
Han Le nodded and said: "Yes, but all the forces or families that are against the Tang family have been razed to the ground by the Tang family. In recent years, there are not more than thirty or fifty families that have been directly or indirectly destroyed by the Tang family.
Already."
Yue Buqun couldn't help but said: "So many families have been wiped out, do the local officials just ignore it?"
Han Le sneered and said: "There is no proof, and the commander of the Tang family is here, who would go to seek the displeasure of the Tang family?"
As he spoke, Han Le looked at Yue Buqun with a smile on his face and said, "It seems that Master Tang Jiu is planning to incorporate you, Mr. Yue, into the Tang family this time. Otherwise, such an action would never be possible."
Take Mr. Yue with you."
Yue Buqun raised his hands to Han Le and said, "It's thanks to Brother Han that you spoke kindly for Yue in front of Tang Jiuye. Otherwise, how could Yue, an outsider, gain Tang Jiuye's trust?"
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Han Le said with a smile: "You and I hit it off immediately. It was just a matter of effort for Han to recommend Mr. Yue to Tang Jiuye."
Xi'an Prefecture
Nowadays, the four gates of Xi'an Mansion have been taken over by the imperial army. The day before, the Zhenwei Battalion of the Beijing Camp finally arrived at Xi'an Mansion under the leadership of its commanders Ren Ping and Guan Zheng.
Almost immediately, Jingying took over the four gates of Xi'an Mansion under Li Huan's order, completely controlling Xi'an Mansion.
At the same time, Jin Yiwei began to ransack homes in the city.
From the Chief Envoy to the Chief Envoy, down to a government official, it can be said that all officials who were found to be involved in major corruption cases were arrested.
Nearly twenty wealthy merchants in the city had their homes confiscated, and there were dozens of officials with surnames in the government office. It can be said that Xi'an's prison is now overcrowded.
After several days, Jin Yiwei's arrests had just stopped. Of course, this was just a large-scale arrest and house raid. The people of Xi'an Prefecture could still occasionally see people from Jin Yiwei going around to arrest people involved in the case.
Li Huan's residence has been transferred from Jinyiwei Qianhu Office to Xi'an Fuyamen.
After a large-scale purge, it can be said that there are no officials left in the Xi'an government office. Including the lower-level officials, only a dozen or so people are left.
These dozen people are now leading a group of poor scholars and village elders selected from the victims outside the city, and are busy handling many government affairs.
Although it looks busy and clumsy, it does not hinder the operation of the entire Chief Envoy Office at all.
After all, the handling of these affairs are usually carried out by many middle and low-level officials. As for the chief envoys and general inspectors, they can at most make decisions on some major matters.
Li Huan almost emptied the entire Chief Envoys' Department and the Inspection's Envoys' Department at once, but at the same time ensured the normal operation of government affairs to a certain extent. It was obvious that after experiencing what happened in Fuzhou, he had some experience and coping strategies.
Policy.
At this time, Li Huan was sitting in a side hall, looking through the reports reported by each of them.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps was heard. Li Huan looked up and saw Gu Yuzhang, a member of the Jinyiwei Baihu household, striding towards him with a look of joy on his face.
"I pay my respects to you, Your Majesty."
Li Huan glanced at Gu Yuzhang indifferently, nodded slightly, his eyes fell on the secret letter in Gu Yuzhang's hand and said: "What's the matter?"
Gu Yuzhang handed the secret letter in his hand to Li Huan and said: "Return to your lord, this is the news secretly sent from the hundred households of the Jinyi Guards on Yulin Road."
Li Huan raised his eyebrows, with a somewhat solemn look on his face.
Yulin Road is where Yulin Town, one of the nine sides, is located. There are several Jinyiwei Hundred Households in Shaanxi, one of which is located on Yulin Road.
Generally speaking, most of the news coming from the Yulin Road Jinyiwei is about the Tatar invaders in the grassland. Regardless of the scale of the invasion, any Tatar invasion will definitely alarm all parties. Even if the scale is slightly larger, there may be
Hearing this from Heaven, alarmed the imperial court and the capital.
At this moment, news came from the hundreds of Jinyiwei households on Yulin Road. Could it be that there was something strange happening among the Tatars on the grassland?
Reaching out to take the secret letter, Li Huan opened it. When he saw the contents of the secret letter, Li Huan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said in surprise: "I didn't expect Yue Buqun to live in Yulin Town."
Gu Yuzhang, who was standing aside, couldn't help but raise his head in shock when he heard this. His face was full of surprise, and he said in a trembling voice: "Sir, you said that Yue Qianhu is not dead, but he is in Yulin Town?"
Li Huan nodded slightly and said, "Yes, this secret letter is a safe letter sent by Yue Buqun through hundreds of Jinyiwei households in Yulin."
As he said this, Li Huan handed the secret letter to Gu Yuzhang. After reading it, Gu Yuzhang said with joy on his face: "Master Yue is fine, that's great."
Li Huan said with a smile: "Yue Buqun is very lucky. He was able to escape with his life when Feng Qingyang and others were chasing him. Although he was seriously injured, his luck is not comparable to that of ordinary people."
Li Huan said, "Send a message to Yue Buqun and ask him to recover from his injuries and come back soon."
Gu Yuzhang responded and left.
Outside, Chen Yao and Du Guang came over with a stack of account books in their arms, faced Gu Yuzhang and nodded.
Walking into the hall, Chen Yao and Du Guang placed the pile of account books in front of Li Huan and said, "My lord, we have finally made a clear count."
In the past few days, Chen Yao, Du Guang and others have been leading the Jin Yiwei to count the proceeds from the confiscation of homes, and now they finally have a result.
Li Huan raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
Chen Yao could only be heard saying: "Sir, this raid involved nearly a hundred families, especially the Liao family, Su family, Wei family, Hu family and other powerful places. A total of 230 grains were confiscated.
Fifty thousand stones, a total of more than 5.4 million taels of gold and silver, and countless acres of land, shops, and manors. Its value is no less than tens of millions of taels."
Hearing this, Li Huan couldn't help but a flash of light flashed in his eyes and said: "You said the grain is 2.3 million shi?"
Chen Yao nodded heavily and said: "Yes, aside from the corrupt government's food relief, the grains copied by several companies amounted to two million shi. This is two million shi of food, and it is not even as good as the first batch of food provided by the imperial court.
The amount of relief food distributed is small."
Li Huan took a deep breath and said with murderous intent all over his body: "It's true that Zhumen's bones are frozen to death due to the smell of wine and meat. These people have hoarded millions of dan of food, but there are millions of people in Shaanxi who can't even get a full meal."
, and tens of thousands of people starved to death."
Chen Yao swallowed, looked at Li Huan and said tremblingly: "Sir, what should I do with these stolen things?"
Li Huan just pondered for a moment and said: "I will personally inform your majesty that the confiscated grain will be used to provide relief to the victims on the spot, while the gold and silver items will be packed in boxes and transported back to the capital to be filled into your majesty's inner treasury. As for the store,
, manors, and mines are waiting to be sold after the disaster."
As he said this, Li Huan glanced at Chen Yao and said, "Approximately how many acres of land have not been copied?"
Chen Yao said quickly: "Sir, the total acres of land are probably 1.8 million acres."
Li Huan raised his eyebrows. To be honest, this number is indeed a bit shocking. However, considering that almost 80% to 90% of the powerful people in Xi'an Prefecture, all the officials were confiscated and their families were exterminated, and the nearly 2 million acres of fertile land is not that much.
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After all, if you count hundreds of families, each family only has 10,000 acres of fertile land. Think about how Yan Song, Xu Jie and others easily occupied hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land. These powerful officials in Xi'an Prefecture are far behind.
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I saw Li Huan sitting there, tapping the table gently with one hand, and suddenly said: "Send Guan Zheng to come see me."
Not long after, Guan Zheng, who was wearing armor, strode forward. When he came closer, he bowed directly to Li Huan and said, "General Guan Zheng, commander of the Zhenwei Battalion, pays homage to the Governor."
Li Huan glanced at Guan Zheng, nodded slightly and said, "Commander Guan, please get up."
With his body clattering and his armor making a sound, the burly Guan Zheng stood up, looked at Li Huan respectfully and said, "I wonder if the general has been summoned by the commander-in-chief. What are your orders?"
Li Huan looked at Guan Zheng and said: "Guan Zheng, you immediately take people to the refugees outside the city to raise a recruitment flag for me and recruit soldiers for me. Anyone who passes the screening will join the army.
I then rewarded him with ten acres of fertile land, ten taels of silver, and five stones of grain to help him settle down."
After Li Huan finished speaking, Guan Zheng and others couldn't help but look shocked, almost instinctively. Guan Zheng said: "Grand Governor, aren't these conditions too good?"
No wonder Guan Zhenghui had such a reaction, not to mention other things, just ten acres of fertile land is enough to make people turn around and rush to join the army, not to mention the money and food.
In order to survive, the refugees outside the city would choose to join the army without hesitation if they were given a bite of food.
Therefore, the generous conditions offered by Li Huan were definitely beyond the expectations of Guan Zheng and others.
Li Huan shook his head and said: "Since the conditions are so favorable, the screening conditions are naturally very strict."
Guan Zheng perked up and looked at Li Huan.
Li Huan said slowly: "Remember, the people you recruit must come from good families, with parents and brothers. You must choose people with good character."
Guan Zheng couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard this. He was not a fool. He naturally knew that if he really selected soldiers according to the requirements Li Huan said, then the soldiers selected in the end would definitely be the best.
However, Guan Zheng soon said with some worry: "Sir, it is not difficult to select such soldiers. As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. What's more, Your Excellency has given such good conditions. When the time comes, among the refugees,
Tens of thousands of people can be selected at will, but how should we deal with those who are sneaky, gangsters and the like?"
Li Huan rewarded the relatives of these soldiers with fertile land, gold, silver, and food, which would inevitably attract the prying eyes of many ruffians among the refugees. Those ordinary people's homes did not dare to provoke those ruffians.
Li Huan said calmly: "This matter is simple. Once the news of recruiting troops is sent out, with such good conditions, those local ruffians will definitely be the first to respond. When the time comes, Commander Guan will command you to separate these people into a separate battalion and restrain them according to military law. They will not respect orders."
Just kill them. It will also save them from scattering among the people and harming the people."
There was a bit of excitement in Guan Zheng's eyes, and he immediately bowed to Li Huan and said: "The general has received your order, let's go and do it now."
But when he turned around, Guan Zheng hesitated and looked at Li Huan and said, "Sir, I wonder if there is a limit on the number of soldiers you can recruit?"
Li Huan smiled slightly and said: "Xi'an Prefecture allows you 20,000 places."
Watching Guan Zheng leave excitedly, Li Huan smiled slightly.
Shaanxi has produced strong soldiers since ancient times. Not to mention other things, the strong Qin Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty were all based on Shaanxi, and then conquered and unified the world.
According to Li Huan's plan, Li Huan planned to recruit 100,000 young men in Shaanxi. After all, if the Beijing camp was full, there would be an army of about 250,000. However, now that the Beijing camp has been reduced, there are only more than 40,000.
Elite, the gap is as much as 200,000.
Now that there is a big disaster in Shaanxi, if Li Huan really recruits 100,000 young people as he wishes, then according to the generous conditions he gave, he will be able to benefit 100,000 households and hundreds of thousands of victims.
As for the conditions he promised, whether it was grain, acres of land, or gold and silver, to be honest, Li Huan didn't take any money out of the capital. Now, thanks to these Shaanxi officials, everything he needed was in place.
One hundred thousand young people need millions of acres of fertile land, one million taels of gold and silver, and five hundred thousand shi of food to settle down. However, Li Huan confiscated nearly two million acres of fertile land and more than five million taels of gold and silver in Xi'an Prefecture alone.
The amount of food is more than two million stones.
Not to mention recruiting 100,000 young men, even doubling the number is easy.
It's dark, night is falling
A Great Wall stretching for thousands of miles is located between the mountains and rivers, blocking the barbarians on the grassland from outside, forming a series of checkpoints and acting as a barrier to the Central Plains.
Sanlangkou is one of the many checkpoints under the jurisdiction of Yulin Town.
Because of their size and importance, these checkpoints would be assigned soldiers to guard in the nine-sided city. Even if they could not stop the Tatar invaders, they could at least serve as a warning.
Once the bonfire is lit, it will inevitably spread in all directions at an extremely fast speed, causing the important towns in Jiubian to react.
On weekdays, the number of soldiers stationed at Sanlangkou is one hundred households, with hundreds of people.
This number is already quite large, because Sanlangkou is an extremely important checkpoint that can accommodate a large number of soldiers and horses to pass through.
A hundred households are stationed here. Unless they are raided, otherwise, depending on the checkpoint, they may not be able to block the incoming Tatars until reinforcements arrive.
On this day, Tang Ping, the official of Baihu, summoned his subordinates to gather at the pass. A strong aroma of wine came to their faces. Several jars of old wine had been opened at this moment, and a strong aroma of wine came to their faces.
The weather is cold, and what these border guards like most is wine, but they don't have many opportunities to drink wine on weekdays.
So now when they looked at their Shangguan Tangping, many soldiers showed a bit of surprise. Of course, more of them paid attention to the wine jar.
Tang Ping laughed loudly and said: "Today I accept my concubine as a concubine. I am very happy and have ordered someone to send some jars of fine wine to share with my brother."
Hearing what Tang Ping said, everyone finally came to their senses and suddenly remembered that today Tang Ping really married a charming concubine.
Immediately, a small flag official smiled excitedly and said, "Thank you, sir, for the wine."
"Thank you, sir!"
Immediately, everyone stopped hesitating, and all stepped forward to pick up the wine bowls and start drinking. Such opportunities are rare, and such fine wines are rare. If you miss it, you will really miss it.
It can be said that there were hundreds of soldiers. Except for a few who did not drink, almost all of them drank a large bowl of wine.
As night fell, outside Saburokou, a group of soldiers and horses, unknown how many there were, were slowly approaching the Saburokou pass.
The leader, Aliha, walked together with Tang Dingli, and several elite servants of the Tang family guarded Tang Dingli.
After a pause, Aliha looked at the looming lights in front of him and knew clearly in his heart that Saburokou was ahead.
The Huli tribe also broke into the pass through Sanlangkou and carried out plunder, so they were no strangers to Sanlangkou.
At the same time, Aliha also knew that the defense at Sanlangkou was very strict, especially the nearly a hundred soldiers guarding the border. Almost most of them were veterans who had fought for the rest of their lives. Their combat power was extremely amazing. If he relied on the pass, even if he did not care about the lives of his people,
If you want to break through the level, you may have to pay a heavy price of hundreds of lives.
At this time, Aliha looked at Tang Dingli and said, "Brother Tang, are you sure we can pass through Sanlang Pass without any damage?"
Tang Dingli smiled and nodded: "Brother Aliha, don't you still believe in me?"
Aliha chuckled and said: "It's not that I can't trust Brother Tang, it's really..."
At this moment, lights suddenly flickered at the checkpoint ahead. The lights swayed regularly a few times. Tang Dingli, who was watching the scene in the secret passage, immediately smiled and said: "Okay, we can set off. The people from the Tang family have already settled the checkpoint ahead."
Already."
Aliha was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then a smile appeared on his face, and he said to Solnit beside him: "Sonit, take the warriors of the clan and go to the front to take a look."
Upon hearing this, Solnit immediately excitedly called on more than a hundred Huli elites to come straight to Saburo's mouth.
At this time, in the Sanlangkou Pass, the Datongpu, which was originally used for the soldiers guarding the border to rest, was now exuding a strong smell of blood.
Tang Ping, who was dressed in armor, held a long knife in his hand and was followed by several servants. In front of them were the corpses of the border guards who had been hacked to death in a coma.
Nearly a hundred soldiers guarding the border did not die in the hands of the Tatars, but died in the hands of their own superiors.
A servant's eyes flashed with a ferocious look, and the sharp knife flashed across the neck of a sleeping old soldier. Blood spurted out immediately. The sleeping old soldier violently twitched, and his confused eyes opened. When he saw
When they saw Tang Ping and others with a sinister expression on their faces, their eyes were full of disbelief.
"Sir, a total of eighty-six people have been killed. There are still a few people on duty outside."
Tang Ping nodded slightly and said to one person: "Tang Zun, you go and send the signal, and the others will follow me to take care of those people."
At the pass, several old soldiers who had not drank alcohol recently were leaning against the wind with cold swords and guns in their arms, chatting away.
Suddenly, the old soldier Qin Zhuang frowned and said: "Old Xu, do you smell the smell of blood?"
The other veterans were stunned when they heard this, and then they sniffed, and immediately heard Xu Ling clenching the long knife in his hand and whispering: "There is indeed a strong smell of blood coming from the pass."
By the light of the lamp, several old soldiers showed doubts on their faces.
At this time, Tang Ping came over with several servants.
When they saw Tang Ping, the people in Qinzhuang quickly stood up and came towards Tang Ping and said, "Sir, why are you here?"
Tang Ping smiled slightly, stepped forward and said, "I can't sleep, so I came out for a walk..."
"Pfft"
Then a muffled groan came out, and a sharp blade was seen entering Qin Zhuang's body. Qin Zhuang looked at Tang Ping with a grin on his face, and then looked at the dagger piercing into his body, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Blood gushed out from his mouth, and he said in a trembling voice: "Sir, you..."
At the same time, several servants following Tang Ping also took action.
Through mental calculation and unintentional calculation, several old soldiers were almost killed on the spot. Only Xu Ling, who was one step behind, realized that something was wrong and avoided it in time. Seeing that the situation was not good, he rolled down the mountain pass and disappeared into the night.
Seeing this situation, several servants tried to catch up, but Tang Ping stopped a few people and said: "If he escapes, he will not be able to hinder the overall situation. When the time comes, it will be enough to label him a deserter. He is a deserter and it doesn't matter."
No one will believe anything you say."
Tang Ping said seriously: "The next step is to escort the people in Hulibu into the customs."
Soon, a rush of footsteps was heard, and Sonite and his men were welcomed into Saburo's mouth by Tang Ping and others.
Looking at the bodies of several Ming soldiers who fell on the ground, and looking at the blood on Tang Ping and others, Solnit immediately understood what was going on.
Especially when Aliha, who had received the news and led a large group of troops to come, saw the nearly 100 Ming Dynasty border guards who had been killed at the pass, Aliha couldn't help laughing loudly, patted Tang Dingli's shoulder and said, "Good brother.
, In order to break into Saburo's mouth, no less than two or three hundred people in my Huli tribe died before. I didn't expect that it would be so easy this time with your help."
Tang Dingli said with a smile on his face: "Hu Libu is a friend of our Tang family. Isn't it the right thing to help friends solve their problems?"
Aliha was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yes, Hulibu and the Tang family will always be friends and help each other."
Tang Dingli stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Aliha, this time we entered the border quietly without alerting anyone. It won't be long before we can easily ambush the grain transport team, and then you and I can share the grain equally."
Aliha's eyes flashed with greed, and he said with a bit of excitement: "Let's go."
Yulin Road
On the dry land, with smoke and dust billowing, a group of cavalry spread out and patrolled in all directions. They were obviously the outposts of the army.
Just above the official road, a long motorcade was winding its way.
Thousands of soldiers were slowly escorting hundreds of carts. The entire convoy was several miles long. This team was the relief food allocated by the imperial court, which amounted to 20,000 dan.
Hundreds of carts creaked slowly forward, and there were one or two thousand civilians responsible for transporting food. Together with the escorting army, the total number was almost three thousand.
The leader, a guerrilla general, was riding a battle-worn horse, constantly asking the returning sentinels for news from the front.
As a guerrilla general, Zhen Wei can be regarded as an upper-middle-class general among the border troops in Yulin Town. However, because of his upright temperament, he has made many meritorious deeds despite his amazing military strength.
, but after being promoted to guerrilla general for more than ten years, his official position never changed again.
This time Zhen Wei was sent to escort the relief grain allocated by the imperial court. This task was not a good job, so in the end it fell on Zhen Wei. He was sent by the commander Tang Dingbang to escort the grain.
Zhen Wei was upright and didn't say anything. After receiving the general's order, he led a group of his men to escort the grain all the way to Suidezhou.
At this time, Zhen Wei frowned and looked at a soldier beside him and said: "What's going on? What's going on with Tang Ye, the flag officer? Didn't I say that I must send someone to report the news every half an hour? This is all
It's been almost an hour, why is there still no news? Does he still have military law in his eyes, or does he think that I don't dare to kill him?"
The soldier coughed lightly and said, "Sir, Tang Ye is also the commander of your Majesty..."
Zhen Wei snorted coldly when he heard this and said: "So what, since you are under my general's command, you must abide by my general's orders."
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