Since ancient times in China, the four provinces of Shanhe and Shanhe have almost always been the main recruiting places for the unified dynasties of China. It is strange, can’t people from other places be recruited? Why are they always selected from these four places?
In fact, the reason is very simple, because most of the wars in ancient times took place in the north.
Externally, they are grassland nomads. Internally, there are constant civil wars. Because there are many people, some people have rivers and lakes, and there are disputes.
Among them, Shanxi is the most dangerous. No matter whether the capital is Chang'an or Beijing, losing Shanxi is the most dangerous.
Therefore, the main force of this northern expedition passed from Shanxi, and went straight north after leaving Shanxi, where the Turks set up Yazhang at the eastern foot of Dujin Mountain and the lower reaches of the Egen River, which was later known as the Hangai Mountains of Mongolia.
The Turks regard the wolf as their totem, and a large flag is erected in front of the tent, called the "Wolf Head Flag". The Eastern Turks are the golden wolf, and the Western Turks are the black wolf.
Li Yuan was based in Jinyang, and he and Comrade Pei Ji were responsible for the recruitment of soldiers in Shanxi. Compared with Shandong and Hebei, the recruitment was smoother. The main reason was that Shanxi already had a large number of troops stationed.
Ashina Danai had 20,000 Western Turks in his hands, and there were 10,000 more troops stationed at Yanmen Pass. Mayi County and Dingxiang County on the border each had 3,000 troops stationed there, so it was easy to get together.
Mayi County is in the Datong area, and Dingxiang County is not Dingxiang County in Xinzhou City in later generations, but Shengle City, the northern capital of the Tuoba Xianbei people. It is now called Dali City. In later generations, to the north of Lingeer County in Inner Mongolia, half of the people who lived here were
They were Turks. The Sui Dynasty stationed troops here mainly to supervise trade with the Eastern Turks and to resist Turkic invasion.
Hedong Mansion had five thousand of the prince's elite troops, but Li Yuan did not dare to conquer them. After all, there was a training ground in Hedong, and there was no room for failure here.
Soldiers are easy to recruit, but civilians are difficult to recruit. After all, there are not many serious roads in Shanxi. It will take a lot of time for the civilians you recruit to just go to the destination, not to mention the various mules, horses and military vehicles.
"According to the current progress, the fight will not be possible in April." Li Yuan summoned many officials to a meeting at his official residence in Jinyang City and said, "Your Majesty should have already set off for Luoyang. If the army wants to enter Shanxi, it needs to go through Guanzhong and take a detour.
Calculating the days, His Majesty should arrive in Jinyang in mid-April, which actually leaves us plenty of time."
This is the great thing about Shanxi. The real gap in the entire Shanxi is actually Datong in the north and Hedong in the south, which is Yuncheng.
However, Hedong County is separated from Henan by Zhongtiao Mountain in the south, and Changping County next door, which is Jincheng where water and soil support people, is separated from Henan by Taihang Mountain. There is no road at all, and people can walk here.
, Yang Guang will not leave from here.
It is not easy to enter Shanxi from the Hebei area. There are only eight paths in Taihang. The word "path" can already explain everything.
Therefore, the army had to go to Guanzhong to carry its supplies, cross the Yellow River and enter Hedong before heading to Jinyang.
It is precisely because of Shanxi's special geographical situation that future generations are so poor. If you want to get rich, build roads first. It is not easy to build roads here.
However, poverty has its advantages. This is the place with the most distinct four seasons in China. It must rain during the Qingming Festival. Why? Because the 24 solar terms originated from Shanxi.
Pei Ji frowned and said: "We are responsible for the supply of food and grass for the main force of the Chinese army, but we have only raised less than half of it now. There is no news about the other half from Duke Chu's side. Food and grass cannot follow the army, right? What do you want?
No more urging Luoyang."
"There is no need for me to urge you," Li Yuan said, "Xu Guogong has already gone to Luoyang. He will naturally urge you. Let's not offend others by complaining like this."
Xu Deyan, who was promoted from Hedong to Taiyuan County Magistrate, said: "There will be no problem. Chu Gong is responsible for the food dispatch of the three armies, and Taiyuan is the main force. He will not slack off."
"It's not that he's slacking off," Jinyang County Magistrate Liu Wenjing said, "it's that he's weak-minded. At present, all three armies are asking for food, and chaos has broken out in Hebei and Shandong. Although we say it's better here, we can't get here from Luoyang.
, half of it comes from Hedong, and half of it takes the Taihang Trail. One is too far, and the other is that the road is not easy to walk. The army rations will inevitably be delayed, so we'd better be mentally prepared."
Li Yuan was silent for a long time and nodded: "Then I'd better tell Duke Xu that our duties have been completed, and we have to rely on Luoyang for the rest."
He did not want to take responsibility, lest the emperor blame him for poor coordination in the future.
In fact, Yang Guang, who had already arrived in Luoyang, was already scolding Xuangan.
Yang Xuangan was indeed unjustly accused. How difficult is it to levy grain in these days? Besides, I am a grain officer, and it is not my responsibility to levy grain.
Yuwenshu's recruitment was late, so my transportation must also be late. Can't you blame me?
Yu Wenshu also hurriedly helped to speak at the court meeting: "It is my dereliction of duty. The recruitment is too difficult. The food from Bashu has entered Guanzhong and is being transferred to Jinyang. It is too late to send troops in April, but
May for sure.”
At this juncture, Yang Guang would not scold Yuwenshu. He scolded Yang Xuangan just for Yuwenshu. Xuangan was easy to talk to.
But Xuangan also held grudges. He didn't know that Yang Guang was criticizing Sang and Huai, but he thought that the emperor was unhappy with him and was targeting him.
Yang Guang snorted coldly and said: "I will personally conquer the country. All the barbarians from all over the world will look up to the important matters of the country. At this critical moment, you are delaying the state affairs and it is in vain to support the country. I said April is April. Three days later, the Luoyang army
Set out and enter Guanzhong to enter Shanxi. I will arrive in Jinyang before April."
Su Wei and others looked at each other and remained silent.
Yang Guang's character made few people in the court dare to go against his will. Gradually, no other voices could be heard here.
During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang, the ministers, including the Yushitai, were able to give advice to the emperor, but now, even the prince does not dare to do so.
Yuwenshu knew that the emperor was trying to beat him, so he had no choice but to discuss reducing the civilian rations to meet military needs. This was the only way at the moment.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He shamelessly borrowed anything that wealthy businessmen and wealthy families could borrow from others. The Dugu family, the Yuan family, the Zheng family, and the eldest grandson family all contributed. If he thinks about it again, the lion will open his mouth.
Will fall out.
Are the aristocratic families willing to contribute their own food? Impossible, they are all being squeezed.
Aristocratic families know best how to preserve themselves. No matter what era they live in, they have their own way of preserving capital, which is to prepare for a rainy day in times of crisis.
They were safe, but things were miserable down there.
Henan is already starved to death, and people are in dire straits.
Just in Dongjun, Henan, officials at all levels responsible for recruiting grain and civilian labor have all been decentralized to the local areas, using various methods to capture young men and produce grain.
During this period, their own work can be put aside for the time being and focus on the major events of the Northern Expedition.
Among them was a man who served as the Cao Cao of Dongjun, a seventh-rank official. He was working on food production and killed several people. As a result, he offended the Yuan family and was imprisoned.
But Sima Huang Junhan of Dongjun released him again. After this man escaped from prison, he ran into Luo Cao's bandit in Wagang Village, southwest of his hometown in Weicheng County. Yes, this man was Zhai Rang.
Do you think this can be called a peasant uprising? I am not a peasant either.
He was a prisoner on death row and had been convicted. He deserved his misfortune. He went down below to collect grain and killed a big landowner. That landowner farmed the land for the old Yuan family. Aren't you too old to make trouble?
So after Zhai Rang Luocao, he immediately raised the anti-Sui banner. Good guy, that's one call for a hundred responses.
As the same saying goes, the people of the world will not be loyal to Your Majesty for a long time.
But at this time, there was no way to suppress the rebellion. The army was mobilizing, and Zhai Rang was very obedient. The banner of anti-Sui was raised, but in fact, nothing was done.
He doesn't dare. Dongjun is only separated from Luoyang by Xingyang County. If you really dare to attack the county seat, the army will wipe you out with just a twist of the ass.
So now, he is basically in the stage of occupying the mountain and becoming the king. After leaving Wagang Village, he is nothing. In the eyes of the court, he is just a bandit. Luoyang people did not realize the seriousness of the matter at all and ignored Zhai Rang at all.
Zhai Rang was not a rough man. A rough man could not be a county magistrate. What was a magistrate? In the Song Dynasty, he was called Ti Xing Guan. In later generations, he was called zhengfaweishuji, a prefecture-level city changwei.
However, in this life, it is indeed impossible for him to be more powerful than in history, because there is no Xu Shiji, no Shan Xiongxin, and no Li Mi around him.
Without Li Mi, Wagang Village would not be able to achieve great success, and it would not even be worthy of the imperial court to take a serious look at him.
Historically, Wagang Army, Dou Jiande, and Du Fuwei were known as the three major anti-Sui forces. They destroyed Zhang Xutuo, Xue Shixiong, Yu Wenhua and the three main forces of the Sui army, and made a wedding dress for Li Yuan.
At that time, Li Yuan and Wang Shichong were not called rebels against the Sui Dynasty. They were smart and supported puppet emperors. At the beginning, they did not dare to proclaim themselves kings.
After Yang Xuangan came to Luoyang, a big change occurred in his whole person, because a treacherous villain passed a message to Xuangan.
This sentence is called: Make Su immortal and eventually become a Yi tribe.
The person who sent the message came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was a eunuch who had been bribed by Yang Su a long time ago. But why didn't he say it before and only now?
Yang Xuangan is a filial child. Although he was oppressed by his father and uncle since childhood, he is very filial. In other words, a strict father produces a filial son.
After knowing this, he naturally gritted his teeth, because when his father was seriously ill, he told him that the emperor was waiting for him to die, and he would have to die if he didn't.
But if you want to say that Xuangan will rebel because of these words, that is impossible. My daughter is the princess and my grandson will be the heir in the future. How can I rebel?
Besides, my uncle still wants to follow the Northern Expedition. If I rebel, what will my uncle do?
But the hatred for Yang Guang has been planted in Xuangan's heart, and the person who instigated the eunuchs to sow Xuangan behind his back has made a mistake this time. He should have sowed the relationship between Xuangan and the prince.
In that case, Xuangan's chances of rebellion will be greater.
Then why not do this? The main reason is that it is difficult to provoke, because Xuangan's daughter is not an ordinary person. She has a deep love for the prince and his wife, so you may not be able to provoke her.