The first day of September is the day set for the army to go out for battle. Before that, Shao Shude still has a few days to spend with his family.
In April, we went to the northern grasslands for more than a month. A while ago, we went out to Suizhou to inspect farmland and met with Li Xiaochang. Later, we also met with the leaders of the Dangxiang tribes such as Yeli and Zhemashan. We were away for another half a month.
.The next step is to attack Youzhou. I don’t know how much time it will take. I spend less time with my family and more time apart.
However, there has been a good thing recently, that is, more and more people have come to seek refuge, such as the Tianshui Zhao family.
Zhao Zhi just bought a house in the city today, with five or six houses, a well, and several jujube trees. Because of the location, the owner paid thirty-five cents, which was beyond his expectation.
expensive!
The owner of the house also told him the truth. Nowadays, many people have moved into the city and are buying houses everywhere. For example, the Song family in Xihe, more than 200 people came at once and bought more than ten large houses. Another example is Yu Ling
The Qiu clan, the supervisor of King Xianghou of Wujun, came over from Guanzhong a few days ago and were looking for houses in the city. As soon as the news spread, the price of houses soared overnight. Everyone is not a fool!
Zhao Zhi could only smile bitterly at this. He originally wanted to buy a cheap house outside the city, but considering that he had already found a job as a camp judge in the shogunate, this was not suitable. However, his clan sister Zhao Yu took good care of her relatives.
, sent someone to bring fifty cents of money, saying that this was the salary she received for writing official letters for the king of Lingwu County, so she could just keep it.
Zhao Zhi was very surprised by this, and after further inquiry, it turned out that the king of Lingwu County rarely wrote official letters, and his two concubines wrote them for him. One was the daughter of the Feng family in Hezhong, and the other was the sister of his own family.
Almost everyone in the shogunate knew this. Some old people who had been serving as assistants all their lives greatly admired the handwriting of Feng and Zhao, and made fun of their king's dog-like handwriting without any trace of it.
Drafting official letters is the job of Jieduzhang Secretary. The King of Lingwu County has so few people at his disposal? Zhao Zhi thought for a while, maybe it’s time to write a family letter and let more people from the clan come to Xiazhou.
The Feng family in Hezhong is on par with the Zhao family in Tianshui. They have produced many talents since the dynasty. Now the shogunate of Lingwu County Prince seems to have very few talents and many vacancies. If you come first, you can occupy them first.
Location. As the saying goes, one step should be taken first, and one step should not be taken carelessly.
Today is his first day in office. After he was promoted to Cao Si, his colleagues knew his origins and were very polite. Even his immediate superior, Wu Lian, the military commander of the shogunate, came to talk to him.
Zhao Zhi came from a large family, so he was certainly comfortable with this. The whole morning was spent exchanging greetings and walking around. In the afternoon, the official Kong Mu below brought over a stack of official letters and gave them to him for review.
The Yingtian Judge is in charge of the camp affairs in the town. In Xiazhou, he may also be in charge of the ranch. He is one of the three judges under Wu Lian and holds real power.
Considering that the vassal towns were divided at this time, the power of the shogunate often overran the state capital, and the shogunate officials occupied a large number of offices in the state. Therefore, the civil and farm affairs in the town were actually managed by him, and the states and counties often did not dare to take charge of it.
Zhao Zhi's official position was to join the army as a military official in Youzhou, which was meaningless. It was just a basis for him to receive a salary. Speaking of which, it was still true that he was assigned as a judge in Yingtian.
Zhao Zhi sat in the yamen all afternoon until the sun set in the west, and then he finished sealing a large number of land deeds.
The land deeds were issued to the sergeants. Because the marshal had allocated land to the sergeants in Suizhou earlier, and now they have moved to Xiazhou, the Tielin Army and the Wuwei Army were also incorporated into the Yamen Army instead of being part of the outer town army.
existence. Therefore, many sergeants applied to exchange thirty acres of farmland in Suizhou to Xiazhou, and their families also moved to Xiazhou.
The commander-in-chief naturally followed the good deeds. It just so happened that some land had been opened up in Xiazhou, either pastures previously occupied by the imperial court, or farmland that had been restored to farming after clearing the blocked irrigation canals. As long as the sergeants did not rush up in one fell swoop, they would all rush together.
If you ask for a replacement, it's still possible to do it slowly.
Seeing that Judge Zhao had completed his work, several driving officers in Cao Division stepped forward with discernment, put the land deeds into wooden boxes, locked them up, and distributed them to the sergeants someday.
When we walked out of the Jiedushi Yamen, there was almost only a glimmer of light left in the sky.
The city was in a mess, with many sergeants living in. He saw Sicang Judge Chen Yishen leading a group of driving officers and envoys to walk around the military camps, talking to the generals, probably asking them what they needed.
.
"Is this the Wuwei Army?" Zhao Zhi raised his head and glanced at the flag, confirming that it was General Lu's troops.
"We're going to fight Tuoba Sigong..." Zhao Zhi shook his head, thinking that his sister-in-law's desire for power is really scary. Nowadays, in all the vassals and towns in the world, which one doesn't have a big army's head under a small army's head? It's probably only in Hedong and other places.
It's a bit more regulated. The army from outside the town cannot interfere in local civil affairs. The generals have no military power in peacetime. Does the sister-in-law have to do the same?
After walking slowly home, his wife had already prepared dinner and his two sons had just finished reading. Zhao Zhi nodded and was about to say something when he heard a burst of chaotic footsteps outside the street and the shouts of an officer.
Curses.
Zhao Zhi turned around and saw a man with a beard on his face, looking in with his head. When he saw the owner looking at him, he smiled and retracted his head.
Zhao Zhi was also very courageous, so he went out to find this man and started chatting with him.
There were several people beside the man, all sitting cross-legged on the ground, with quilt bags, biscuits, and water bags beside them. Some even leaned a pole against the wall of his house.
"We are common people in Yinzhou, and we have been recruited by the commander-in-chief to be wives. We are about to ask Tuoba Sigong. We are short of manpower, and we have fought again. The governor of the Song Dynasty recruited thousands of people in one go, and sent them all here
It’s done.” The man said while biting into the Hu Pancake.
"Have you fought in a war?" Zhao Zhi thought quickly and figured it out at once: "Are you a member of the Chao family?"
"It's been a long time ago." The man chewed the hard biscuits and said vaguely: "Back then, I followed the Yellow King across the north and south, ah no, it was the Yellow Thief! Later, he was defeated by Marshal Shao in Sanyuan in a battle, and all the cities were destroyed.
We were made prisoners. Commander-in-Chief Renyi refused to kill us, so he went to Suizhou to open irrigation canals for two years, and then was sent to Yinzhou. These brothers and I are all from Kaiguang County, and now we live on a rented farm.
It’s been almost two years.”
Zhao Zhi also read a lot of documents on military farms today, so he suddenly became interested and asked: "How much land was rented?"
"Thirty acres." The man took a sip of water, swallowed the biscuits in his throat, and then said: "I, my wife, and a young man and a half, rented the cattle issued by the county, barely
Just fool around."
"Half a boy?"
Several fellow villagers around him burst into laughter. The man's face was also a little red, and he said angrily: "Hu Erlang, if you dare to laugh again, I will kill you! Li Yaolang, have you forgotten who saved your life when we attacked Jiangling? Laughter
, laugh your ass off!”
Zhao Zhi also understood at this time and smiled: "But those prairie women that the commander kidnapped?"
"Isn't it?" When talking about this, the man also felt a little resentful: "He looks pretty decent, has a big butt, and can have children. He just doesn't know how to farm! Before I stabbed someone with a knife, I was also in Yunzhou.
I have been farming for seven or eight years, but I can’t teach this stupid woman any good! But I can take care of the livestock, that’s all, I’m a little tired, it’s nothing.”
"Are those cows useful?"
"It's not easy to use, I have a bad temper, and plowing the land is too troublesome. My family is pretty good, but some people's cattle can't plow the land at all. The government reduced the rent to 20 yuan, but they are still losing money. This cow is worth it
Let's fight for a while. The cows brought back from the grassland are used to being wild and will not obey the rules!"
"How was the harvest this year?"
"I collected less than 40 hu of wheat and gave 35% to the public school. The rest is my own. No tax was levied last year, but this year I have a household registration and will be taxed."
"Can you still survive?"
"It should be possible." The man smiled and said, "I used a knife to kill people, but I can't live with it anymore, right?"
"Have you planted anything after the autumn harvest?"
"If you plant some beans, you can harvest fifty or sixty pounds per acre." At this point, the man's face showed a faint look of worry. I don't know how long this battle will last, and whether they will have time to get home to harvest the beans.
, it’s probably too late. However, there are rumors in the army that the commander promised to reward the masters, four sheep per person. If this is true, it is not a loss. After all, there is no one in the family, the mother-in-law, and the children can all help.
Harvesting beans.
Zhao Zhi could see that the former soldier Chao had a problem in his heart. Although he kept scolding his wife for being stupid and not knowing how to farm, it was obvious that he was still willing to pay for the family. Marshal Beizheng Grassland
, took in more than 20,000 women and children, and distributed them all to the nest. Now it seems that it has indeed had the effect of calming people's hearts.
Maybe this Chao Zong is still a little nostalgic for his hometown of Yunzhou, but after his child was born, he grew up in Yinzhou, so Yinzhou is his hometown. Isn't that what is called rooting on the ground and spreading branches?
Just as he was sighing, a group of knights passed by on the street. They should be state soldiers under Wang Yu's command.
They looked at the wives lying all over the ground with vigilant eyes, and the leading officer said: "It's a good thing that I didn't let you live outside the city. Don't cause trouble!"
"Bah!" After the state soldiers walked away, the man spat and said: "Wang Yu also surrendered, but the soldiers under his command were so ferocious that they didn't care about the affection they had in the past."
"We are all handsome people, so why distinguish each other." Zhao Zhi smiled and said: "Do you need to get you some felt blankets? This thing is very cheap. I bought several in one go."
"No need." The man waved his hand and said: "This quilt bag issued by officials has a smell, but I'll make do with it. This is not the coldest month of winter, so I can get through it."
Zhao Zhi nodded with a smile, and then returned to the house. He could see that the commander-in-chief had a high prestige in the town and could control his subordinates. In other feudal towns, even if the husband and the people were strong, he would often disturb the people. These nests
Everyone seems to have been sorted out, and people's hearts are with the commander-in-chief. The chance of winning the battle against Tuoba Sigong is very high!