At the head of Zhen'an County in Lisheng Prefecture, Han Zhigu sneered again and again.
As the chief registrar of the Libo Academy and the governor of the Lisheng and Lisheng dynasties, Han Zhigu knew that he had no way out. At the same time, he also gave up any sense of shame. In the face of all kinds of ridicule and abuse from the Khitan people, he remained calm and unfazed.
A no-nonsense demeanor.
There are soldiers in Lisheng Prefecture, about a thousand people, mainly veterans of the Forbidden Army who "retired and re-employed" from Daxia, recruits from the Yunzhou Academy, and Datong and Qingsai Second Army soldiers who are unwilling to serve as government soldiers.
Based on them, Han Zhigu recruited more than 10,000 men from various clans to garrison inside and outside Zhen'an County - Zhen'an County was the original Beilou and was the only subordinate county of Lisheng Prefecture.
As for the old, weak, women, children, cattle and sheep, they had already moved eastward at night - this was the news passed down with blood by the Khitan's ancient tribe who were grazing farther north.
Yigu only spent a lot of money with Jiadi to find out where Abaoji's ranch was, so he excitedly gathered his troops there. Unexpectedly, he overestimated his own strength, and when he was discovered, he was severely beaten.
Jiadi ran fast and escaped first, so the loss was not big.
Guigu only shed a layer of skin, his nephew was surrounded, and he did not know whether he was alive or dead. Thousands of people in his tribe were killed and injured, and his strength was greatly reduced.
After the news came back, Han Zhigu made a decisive decision and immediately organized his troops to move the old, weak, women, children, cattle and sheep. At the same time, he recruited strong men, built camps, and firmly anchored Lishengzhou, preparing to delay the enemy and buy time - as long as
With them still there, Abaoji would not be able to plunder wantonly unless he did not worry about his escape.
When the transfer was first ordered, it was not that no one objected. It was only late May, and after a winter, the cattle and sheep had just eaten a few mouthfuls of fresh pasture, regained their strength and gained some fat, and now you have to travel long distances again.
When trekking, don’t you consider the mood of the herdsmen?
But Han Zhigu's attitude was very resolute. The warriors who came from the Central Plains also supported him. The tribal chiefs who had just been defeated last year did not dare to stand up, so they pinched their noses and agreed.
Not to mention this, when Han Zhigu saw their reluctance and slow movements, he went to supervise them personally, with a stern tone and tough attitude. Finally, he successfully retreated before the enemy attacked and covered up the traces.
Now, it turns out that his worries were justified. He was reluctant to part with the pots and pans, and the final result was to lose everything.
"The more fierce the thieves scold, the more cowardly they are." Han Zhigu turned around, looked at the leaders of many clans behind him, and said: "Abaoji is a lost dog. The saint has arrived in Buyeo, Tielim, Tiande, and You.
In the country, Luoyan, the bodyguards and pro-army troops were assembled one after another. There were no less than one hundred thousand elite soldiers. Even those who borrowed Abaoji's courage did not dare to come over. Tens of thousands of troops were camped in Rouzhou and they were eyeing them. What could Abaoji use to fight? You guys have a family and a business, and both
If you have surrendered to the imperial court, don't think about things. Remember, don't make mistakes!"
"Don't dare! Don't dare!" Everyone looked at each other and responded one after another.
Han Zhigu snorted coldly and said no more.
He knew that the main military force of Lishengzhou was still the descendants, mainly Shulu, Chute and Xiren.
At this critical moment, you must stand up, and the tougher the better. People are so mean, and if you say nice words and try to appease and win over, it will only make people feel hesitant and indecisive. Be tougher and make the consequences clear.
Well, these people who have just experienced failure will not dare to rebel in a short period of time.
Of course, there is also a certain degree of control, which is not simple. Everything depends on on-the-spot performance. Han Zhigu actually did a good job, accurately grasping the tangled psychology of the Khitan leaders and avoiding a chaos.
"Woo——" the sound of blowing the trumpet kept coming.
More and more Khitan cavalry gathered outside the city, and the defenders gradually calmed down after experiencing the initial panic.
The Great Xia Forbidden Army who returned from retirement is still reliable.
Their presence greatly comforted people's hearts. The Khitans did not have the determination and ability to attack the enemy, and they were afraid that if they suffered heavy casualties, they would collapse first.
This is like fighting a wolf with a hemp pole, which is worse than a bad one!
"In the evening, send people out of the city to convey the message. They will go in two groups. One group will go west via Yikunzhou to find Liang Dutou, and the other group will go east to Fuyu Prefecture to report to the saint." Seeing that the Khitans did not take the initiative to attack the city.
Meaning, Han Zhigu felt relieved, and after giving a few instructions, he went down to the top of the city.
Next, he would urge some of the people left behind to catch up with the missing arrows and prepare materials to repair the city wall - what if the Khitan people couldn't think of it and really attacked the city? It's always right to be prepared.
At the same time, he is also working hard to analyze the current situation.
Abaoji's march south can only be regarded as robbery at best. He probably did not have the courage to fight Xia's army decisively, so he could only harass them and withdraw after gaining some benefits.
The saint also looked down upon him. He only recruited some Yingzhou Tibetan soldiers to wander on the grasslands as a protective force on the flanks of the army. Coupled with the garrison of the Seven Saints themselves, as long as there was no large-scale rebellion, Abaoji would
No chance.
On the contrary, if he makes some mistakes, he may be bitten by Rouzhou Xingying and suffer another big loss.
After suffering a loss, if it is not handled properly or if the losses are too great, the alliance between the remnants of the Khitan, Wu Gu, and the Lin people that Abaoji hastily formed will fall apart again and there will no longer be a problem.
"I am Yue Liduo's concubine, so I should be loyal to Yue Liduo. I have nothing to do with Abaoji..." Han Zhigu tried hard to build his mind, and took a long step away in a calm mood.
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At the end of May, Shao Shude arrived in Fuyu County, Xianzhou Lisuo, which will be his periodic residence.
At this time, he received news from the Seven Saints State and Yong'an Palace, so he asked Yue Liduo for his opinion.
"Your Majesty, Abaoji went south just to plunder," Yue Liduo said.
"Why do you think so?" Shao Shude asked.
"Abaoji is in urgent need of victory to restore his prestige, but he cannot bear defeat." Yue Liduo analyzed: "Therefore, he will carefully control the battlefield trend. Once he sees the main force of the King's division, he will flee.
Anyway, he should have taken advantage by now, so he can justifiably withdraw his troops."
"You have really seen through Abaoji." Shao Shude sighed: "If you were a man, you would have no place in the sea or anything else, and you would have to step aside."
After saying that, he stopped paying attention to this direction and called Chen Cheng, Zhao Guangfeng and others to inspect the countryside of Xianzhou and talk about the development of Shenzhou - Zhang Quanyi, the transfer envoy of Liaodong Road, and Han Congyun, the governor of Xianzhou, were also present.
Lao Zhang's work ability is beyond words, it is top-notch, and Shao Shude is very satisfied. Therefore, he asked the Chu family who was accompanying him to stay in the city and not show up again, although Lao Zhang might not mind at all.
Zhang Quanyi's development of Xianzhou was mainly concentrated in Fuyu County. After the winter last year, he organized manpower to reinforce the city and built many livestock pens. At the same time, he took inventory of materials from various places and exchanged what was needed.
Liaodong has a special characteristic, because the infrastructure such as roads and reservoirs is extremely poor. It rains a lot in summer, and floods often break out and submerge the roads. Therefore, it actually takes on a lot of transportation tasks in the winter after snow.
This strange state even lasted until the Puppet Manchukuo period. After the muddying season in spring, the roads were muddy, and floods broke out frequently in summer. Therefore, we simply waited until the ground was frozen hard before mass transportation - horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, sleds, and sledges.
, what is the use? The natural river has become a highway, which is smoother than the post road and is also a wonderful sight.
After Zhang Quanyi took inventory of materials from various places, he worked tirelessly to organize the transfer of manpower. At the same time, he also reorganized the post stations in various places. Even the dog sledge post station during the Bohai Kingdom period was carefully inspected and tried to rebuild and resume operations.
After the beginning of spring, people are organized to carry out spring plowing. The seeds have been planted and the spring seedlings have grown, which is very gratifying to see.
"Your Majesty, there are more than 600 hectares of cultivated land in Fuyu County, all of which have been sown. There are also more than 1,000 hectares of idle fields, of which 300 hectares have been sown." Zhang Quanyi introduced: "The ones planted are all millet. Next year, I will let people try it.
Plant some wheat. If wheat doesn't work, plant rye. Before I came, I had someone transport a batch of rye seeds from Shenzhou, and I picked a large and round seed. Sinong Temple will also transport a batch.
The newly cultivated seeds will arrive in about July..."
Zhang Quanyi's introduction mainly focused on farming. It can be seen that he is very familiar with these things.
"With just such a small number of people in Fuyu, how busy can they be if they have to plant thousands of hectares of land?" Shao Shude asked.
"Your Majesty, in the past, just as the Tibetan people cultivated highland barley, so did the Xi people cultivate millet." Zhang Quanyi replied.
Shao Shude understood.
The Tibetan people grow food, sow the seeds and forget about it.
Anyway, there is a lot of land, so you can plant extensively and harvest little. You usually graze, and during the autumn harvest in August, men, women, old and young all go into battle and grab a handful of crops in a surprise attack. You can harvest as much as you can, and everything is up to chance.
They don't expect to live on these grains, which can be used as a supplement to the income from grazing. Don't tell me, for many tribes, this is actually quite reasonable. It is more nutritious and has more income than simply grazing.
Farming is more risk-resistant because it has two sources of income.
"It's up to you to handle the farming, I trust you." Shao Shude said, "Well done, why should I be stingy about the reward?"
Zhang Quanyi's face lit up when he heard this.
He knew that it was very difficult for a civil servant to obtain a title. Even a county boy would have to spend countless efforts to fight for it, and most likely he would not be able to win it. Now that the saint has made this announcement, the old Zhang family has a great chance. How can it be done?
do not like?
Shao Shude continued to wander in the field, picked up a handful of soil and looked at it carefully.
Great land, we must actively utilize the gifts of nature.
"Have the soldiers of the government begun to divide the territory?" Shao Shude asked again.
"It has already begun. Since March, more than 2,000 people have been divided into three Zhechong mansions. This matter is supervised by the King of Qin, and I am just cooperating." Zhang Quanyi replied.
Shao Shude nodded and sighed: "There are not enough people."
There are so many warriors in the world! There are so many soldiers to arrange! The problem caused by this is that there are not enough troops.
Although Daxia was not a slave system, and the troops in the imperial army were not slaves, but farmers and tenants. But in fact, they were serfs.
If serfdom was abolished in law, would there be no serfs? Tsarist Russia tells you that it is impossible. In order to settle the warriors, Daxia also turned a blind eye, thus creating a large number of de facto serfs.
No one wants to be a serf.
After defeating Khitan and Bohai last year and occupying Shen, Xian, Xia, Huan and other states, the Bohai, Xi, Khitan, Goguryeo, Sogdian and other ethnic groups in these newly acquired lands basically became serfs and were sent to various prefectures as soldiers.
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But it was still far from enough. Shao Shude even had to find a way from the Central Plains. He distributed a group of prisoners and encouraged their families to follow them. At the same time, he also forcibly relocated the people from Weibo, Xichuan, Longyou and other places who had rebelled, and settled them as soldiers of the government.
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Even the prisoners captured on the battlefield moved their families and tried every means to replenish the population.
Wu Fu is too damn good!
He read through the classics and learned that the Northern Zhou Dynasty, with a population of 7 million, had only about 48,000 soldiers for a long time. How many would he arrange now? No less than 100,000!
If you calculate it carefully, good guys, it would be enough to demote all the people of Bohai State into slaves. But this will inevitably cause turmoil, causing the situation in the Northeast to be unstable for a long time. And the turmoil will lose the population and aggravate the situation. How to operate
, it all depends on the level of officials.
Zhang Quanyi, can he do it?
"You already know about the discovery of the Han Mine in Shenzhou, right? Tell me how you considered it." Shao Shude decided not to dwell on this matter anymore, and instead asked about the mining.
In fact, in later generations, six ancient mines were discovered in Anshan. The earliest mines are said to be from the Qin Dynasty, and the most are from the Han Dynasty. Next to the mines, ancient wells dug in the Tang Dynasty were also discovered. Inside the mines,
We also saw porcelain from the Liao Dynasty. It can be seen that the development of these mines has not stopped since the Qin Dynasty.
As for why the scale has not increased? In fact, it is very simple. The development of civilization in the Northeast has a very bad curse: the population is cleared periodically.
Sima Yi slaughtered Liaodong and moved the population of Goguryeo into the Tang Dynasty. Both times led to the social and economic collapse of Liaodong.
Needless to say, Sima Yi killed people. In the Tang Dynasty, those who moved to Goguryeo were the "upper households" of Goguryeo, that is, officials, literati, merchants, craftsmen, etc., and basically succeeded in reducing them to a state of ignorance.
The Liao and Jin dynasties finally developed, and there were millions of people in the Northeast. The Mongols came again and killed them all.
In the late Yuan Dynasty, the population of Liaodong gradually became more abundant, and then ushered in the cruel end of the dynasty. Liaodong was left with only ten houses and nine empty houses, and there was no human habitation for thousands of miles.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was another brutal killing, and then the Manchu and Qing Dynasties invaded the Pass in large numbers, and outside the Pass it was once again desolate.
This kind of periodic population clearing is really harmful to the social development of a place. It has repeatedly interrupted the progress of civilization and even made great strides backward. It is a ghost if it can develop.
"Your Majesty, we are short of people." Zhang Quanyi replied concisely and concisely.
"What if there is someone?" Shao Shude asked.
"We have to wait." Zhang Quanyi said: "We can only start mining and smelting iron after the grain harvest has stabilized for a year or two, we have some savings, and the situation has stabilized."
"You are prudent." Shao Shude smiled and said: "Actually, Liaodong is rich in meat, fish, leather, wild products, and wood, which is very good. If there are sufficient manpower, it can indeed become a rich land."
"Your Majesty, the most valuable thing in Liaodong is the land." Zhang Quanyi said: "Thousands of miles of fertile soil, the amount of food harvested every year is huge, and under the long flow of water, nothing can compare."
"Zhang Qing is really talented and he grasped the key points right away." Shao Shude said: "Work hard and let me open my eyes and see how much food can be harvested from the land in Liaodong."
"Your Majesty, as long as Liaodong can be stable for five years, it will be self-sufficient." Zhang Quanyi said with confidence.
In the fifth year of Pingliao, Shao Shude burst into laughter.
Zhang Quanyi's words actually have preconditions. "Stability" and "stability", throughout history, are actually a kind of luxury goods most of the time, and they are also the main services provided by capable countries.
Whether Liaodong is safe or not depends on how well the Bohai campaign goes this time.
The armies are basically in place. They are all elite soldiers and generals, and their morale is high. In fact, there are people in Bohai who are willing to join us. The advantage lies with me.