On the second day of June in the first year of Guangqi, Shao Shude led his army back to Lingzhou.
The Jinglue Army and the Yi Congjun crossed the river directly from the Dingyuan Army and returned to Xiazhou. There was nothing going on in Lingzhou. There was no need for so many soldiers and horses around them. It would be good to reduce the logistical pressure a little.
On the way, we will stop by the Xiakujiesha area. Some tribes there have close relations with the Hexi Dangxiang Pochou Department. Last time, they were sued by Weicaisudu. This time, we will take care of them and collect some wealth.
Li Shao arrived in Lingzhou a few days ago and brought the latest news: In the first five months of this year, the Shatuo Army continued its efforts and sold more than a thousand households from Zhaoyi and Hebei Province to Ma Xing. In addition, there continued to be sergeants and civilians.
More than a thousand families moved to Suizhou.
Of these two thousand households, Song Le, the governor of Yinzhou, directly took half of them and continued to enrich the local household registration. The reason is conclusive, that is, once the general sends troops to the north, Yinzhou will inevitably bear a considerable part of the money and food expenses, and there must be more funds.
Large population and fields.
As families of sergeants continued to sell their fields and houses in Suizhou and move to Xiazhou, the population of Suizhou continued to decline. After a few more years of development, Yinzhou would catch up and surpass Suizhou.
By the way, there are family members of sergeants in Xiazhou almost every month, and the influx of talents from Guanzhong has led to rapid growth in the population. It has now exceeded 11,000 households, totaling 57,000 people. Marshal Shao has a total of 35,000 people
Thousands of soldiers and horses, if every sergeant moves his family to Xiazhou, plus craftsmen, officials, businessmen, scholars and other people who are not engaged in agricultural production, there will probably be more than 200,000 people crowded in the three counties in the future.
Although the political center is like this, it seems that it is not what he wants to see if it continues to expand to the point that it exceeds the carrying capacity of local agricultural and animal husbandry output and becomes a place that cannot make ends meet.
Among the newly arrived immigrants, 500 households were assigned to Changze County, Youzhou, and rented 300 hectares of newly opened military farms there. The remaining less than 600 households belonged to the families of soldiers, who had gone through all kinds of hardships to come here.
, arranged to arrive in Xiazhou early.
More than 2,000 households were divided up. The Lingzhou development project that Marshal Shao wanted so much was in need of people, but Xia Suiyin and the other three states were actually divided among them?
We can't wait any longer! We immediately ordered that the family members of the sergeants who will move in the second half of the year will naturally continue to be arranged in Xiazhou, and all the remaining households will be arranged in Lingzhou, with the focus on the four counties of Huile, Lingwu, Hongjing, and Huaiyuan to enrich the local area.
population.
"Li Shijun, I haven't seen you for many years. How are you doing?" Outside the Lingzhou Jiedushi Palace, Shao Shude personally welcomed Li Shao in.
"Don't call me the envoy." Li Shao shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "When I was in Jinyang, I never thought that Shao Shuai could reach this point. He is so young, and I am afraid that only Li Keyong can compare with him.
Alright?"
"Li Keyong is in charge of a famous town in the world, how can I compare with you?"
"Shao Shuai doesn't need to be humble." Li Shao said: "These days, I have been traveling around. Xia Sui's business is very prosperous! Shao Shuai's ability is something that Li Keyong and his generation will never be able to match. And
He also has a heart of benevolence and righteousness, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, which is not easy."
"This inheritance does not belong to one person. We can share the wealth and honor." Shao Shude said: "I have declared Li Shijun to be Shuofang's military envoy. I believe the court will not be in trouble. I hope you will help me in the future."
"Why did Marshal Shao push me into this pit of fire?" Li Shao said, "I heard that Dr. Li Kan also wanted the position of Shuofang Jie Commander. Why bother to fight with him at his age?"
It would be a bad thing if Li Kan came to Lingzhou! Shao Shude secretly thought that this position should not be given to Wu Fu.
"I hope Mr. Li will help me," Shao Shude said sincerely.
"May I ask what Shao Shuai wants me to do?"
"Promote agriculture, promote animal husbandry, promote education, and promote industry."
Li Shao thought for a while and said, "This requires private households."
"Someone will come up with a solution."
"Talent is also needed."
"There is also a shortage of talents in the hands of a certain person. Li Shijun can only find his own way, but I can't do anything wrong."
"In this case, I will reluctantly do it, and it will pave the way for my descendants." Li Shao said, "I have put all my treasure on Shao Shuai."
"Haha, I won't disappoint you!"
"By the way, I have some good news to tell Shao Shuai. There is news from Suizhou that Yan Yelibu has discovered iron ore in the mountains. The location is called Tea Mountain. I don't know how many there are, but it should be a good thing."
Shao Shude was stunned when he heard this, and then suddenly realized.
He has always felt that the iron ore in Xixia in later generations was in Lingzhou, so this expedition to the west to obtain iron ore was also one of the important reasons. But now think about it, the Xia people set up a special agency to manage iron smelting in Xiazhou. "
"Iron Smelting" is the main iron and weapon manufacturing place in Xixia. There is a reason for this.
It turns out that the Xixia Iron Mine is actually in Hengshan! This is because I have fallen into a misunderstanding.
However, a while ago, some people from the Lingzhou Fan tribe also said that there was iron in the Helan Mountains, and Dangxiang Wanshan tribe used to mine it for smelting. Now they hear that there is iron in the Hengshan Mountains. This is an unexpected surprise!
Lingzhou wants to set up the third specialized iron smelting and manufacturing institution in the six prefectures: Lingzhou Duzuo Institute, which is located in Huaiyuan County. The manpower will first be transferred from Suizhou and Xiazhou, and then recruit people locally.
Become an apprentice. The requirements at the beginning are not high, as long as you can repair equipment, take your time.
The previously set policy of attracting foreign craftsmen to open blacksmith shops remains unchanged, and is even planned to be expanded to other industries, such as textile, printing and dyeing, woodworking, construction, ceramics and other industries, all of which will be exempted from tax for the first five years and commercial tax reduction for the next five years.
Half discount to attract talents to settle here.
In the afternoon of that day, Shao Shude took Li Shao to meet with the Lingzhou shogunate and prefecture and county officials.
Although the official appointment from the imperial court has not yet been made, everyone knows that Li Shao can now be treated as his immediate boss.
From today on, the government affairs of the eight counties of Ling and Yan will be responsible to Li Shao. Of course, military affairs cannot be interfered with. Wang Yu, the envoy of the Dingyuan Army, is a confidant of the commander-in-chief. It is said that Yang Liang, the training envoy of the Suizhou regiment, will soon come to Lingzhou to serve as a soldier.
The envoy will be in charge of two thousand state soldiers, so that everyone can accept the immigrants with peace of mind, make good resettlement, and carry out agricultural production. There is no need to ask any questions about the rest.
After finishing all this work, Shao Shude was ready to return to Xiazhou.
On the eighth day of June, a military report came from the north: Four thousand cavalrymen caught up with some fleeing Hexi party members in the Mi'e River area, beheading 1,800 people, and captured more than 3,000 people and more than 80,000 cattle and sheep.
Shao did the math, plus the tributes sent by various ministries one after another. During this expedition, a total of more than 100,000 hu of grain and more than 200,000 livestock were obtained, which was not too bad.
The harvest is not just spoils of war. The most important thing is not to allow party members to become co-owners.
If the Mongols are organized, they can march to Beijing, but when they are scattered, the Ming army can go out to raid the grass and valleys. The Dangxiang people's son of destiny, Tuoba, was killed by him, so the next son of destiny cannot appear, otherwise he will have
big trouble.
It is most advantageous to maintain a state of disunity, and it is also easiest to conquer, control, and win over. This is true for the party and the same is true for the Uighurs.
No single tribe, ranging from less than a thousand to tens of thousands, can resist itself.
Compared with Dangxiang and the Uighurs, perhaps the Khitan has more potential, but that is the trouble in Youzhou Town. At this time, the desert grassland is actually ownerless, and I still have time. If it takes another twenty or thirty years, the Khitan will not be able to protect it.
If the grasslands were unified, it would be the Turks in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, not the Mongols in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Only by gathering the strength of many towns in the north could they compete.
The captured grain and cattle were left in Lingzhou for the next stage of development expenses. Nearly 200,000 alpacas, horses and camels were brought back to Xiazhou to be used as military rewards. The more than 3,000 prisoners were different from the previous 3,000.
Many people worked together to continue repairing the 500-mile road between Lingyan. They were herdsmen and could not farm. They were not suitable to even organize households to integrate the people, so they could only do hard labor.
After arranging all this, it was already June 11th, and Shao Shude ordered the entire army to regroup.
All officials, generals, and gentry in Lingzhou, whether voluntarily or by force, all went out of the city for several miles to see each other off.
"Fathers of Lingzhou, please rest assured, as long as a certain day comes, Lingzhou will be able to live and work in peace and contentment." Shao Shude looked at the group of people seeing him off, and he was in a very good mood, and said: "In the early years of the dynasty, the people were peaceful and happy, all year round.
It’s the Eighth Festival, and there are countless agricultural festivals, celebrations, and entertainments. It’s really lively. However, last month’s Dragon Boat Festival, although every household barely celebrated the festival, how did it compare with the early years of the country? I didn’t see the four people stepping on the grass at the same time, and I didn’t see the show of fighting the grass.
, no miscellaneous medicines were collected, no fabrics were given to each other for entertainment, the people lived in poverty, and rebels broke out everywhere, plundering the countryside, the public ministers and generals in the world were indebted to the people. It may be said that the current situation is in chaos, and all towns are like this, but I don’t recognize it.
, we must return prosperity and peace to the elders of Lingzhou. If anyone wants to destroy this peace, you all can punish him together!"
These words have indeed spoken to the hearts of everyone. Nowadays, everyone’s requirements are very low. If they don’t want to be rich, how about a stable order? But unfortunately, this is difficult to achieve. Even those who are relatively wealthy and stable
In the south of the Yangtze River, there were also soldiers plundering the countryside, but the general could not control them.
The emperor of Chang'an and the generals from other towns will not treat everyone as human beings. They are all two-legged sheep. The king of Lingwu County is willing to give everyone the most basic dignity. The family can be reunited without worrying about the rebels rushing in one day.
His wife, daughter and property were taken away. As long as he kept his word, so what if he followed him?
"We are following the commander-in-chief's order, but there are thieves who want to disrupt this situation. Let's kill them together." Li Shao replied.
As he started, everyone agreed. Shao Shude observed carefully and found that everyone did not seem to be lying when they said this, but rather sincere. This is very good. A stable and beautiful life is the consensus of everyone. Who will think about it in the future?
If you cause trouble, you are a public enemy and can be massacred.
The army's return route was almost the same as when it came, from Lingzhou to Wenchi to Yanzhou to Youzhou to Xiazhou, a total distance of 800 miles.
While on the road, Shao Shude received several messages from Tingwangsi.
The Hebei War has basically come to an end, and the process was quite dramatic.
The two towns of Youzhou and Chengde attacked Wang Chucun, and Youzhou soldiers attacked Yizhou. Li Quanzhong led the army, with an army of 60,000, and surrounded Yizhou. However, Yizhou's strong city was difficult to defeat, and a junior general Liu Rengong thought of it.
There is a way to break into the city and defeat it.
The Chengde army besieged Dingzhou and could not attack for a long time, and the soldiers were exhausted. It happened that Li Keyong led reinforcements to attack Dingzhou soldiers from inside and outside, and the Chengde army was defeated. The Chengde army was defeated and retreated. Li Keyong pursued again, won again, and beheaded one after another.
More than ten thousand.
When the Youzhou soldiers heard that Chengde's army was defeated, they relied on their elites and were not afraid. However, Wang Chucun came up with a cunning trick and sent three thousand soldiers covered with sheepskins to the outside of Yizhou City at night. The Youzhou soldiers thought they were real sheep and fought to plunder them.
, was defeated by Wang Chucun.
Some things sound fantastic, but they actually happen.
What a virtue of a sergeant in this era!
You might say they can't fight, but if they really can fight, the Khitan won't get any advantage from them. Not to mention that the Khitan hasn't risen yet, Youzhou is only a small town, but they haven't suffered much from the Khitan, and they go there often
Threshing the valley.
But these armies are really unreliable! Wang Chucun’s bad move, as well as Huang Chao’s previous bad move of deliberately withdrawing from Chang’an, all of them worked. I am speechless.
Li Quanzhong packed up his army and ran away. When he was approaching Youzhou, his subordinates persuaded him to rebel. The reason was simple. After returning to Youzhou and handing over his military power, he was just a dead dog. Li Keju could punish him however he wanted. It was better to take advantage of the fact that he had the army in his hands.
thing.
Li Quanzhong rebelled, and there were no troops left in Youzhou City. In order to avoid humiliation for his family, Li Keju climbed up a building and burned himself to death. Li Quanzhong then stayed behind for Lu Long's army.
The Hebei War ended, and everyone returned to their respective homes. The borders and territory remained unchanged. Many people died in vain, and the people were made unable to live in peace.
"Li Keyong has made his move. What will he do next?" Shao Shude put down the information and thought carefully: "Zhaoyi, Hebei, Sanzhou? Zhenwu Army? Or Guanzhong?"
He picked up another piece of information, which was about the imperial court.
After the saint returned to Chang'an, he wanted to rebuild the Shence Army. Tian Lingzi recruited fifty-four soldiers in Shu, a thousand people in each capital, and attached them to the Shence Army on the left and right. They spent a lot of money on food, wages, and equipment. In addition, court officials also came one after another.
After returning, there were more than 10,000 officials in the Nanya and Northern Divisions. Tonghua and Tonghua couldn't afford to rely on Jingzhao Prefecture alone, so they decided to go to the salt pond in the river.
Tian Lingzi encouraged the saint to issue an edict, ordering Wang Chongrong to move the Taining Army. Of course, Wang Chongrong refused. However, he still expressed his willingness to donate three thousand carts of salt to the court every year for expenses.
Of course the imperial court did not agree, and continued to ask Wang Chongrong to move the Taining army, Qi Kerang, the governor of the Taining army, to Yiwu, Wang Chucun, the governor of Yiwu, to move to Hezhong, and asked Li Keyong to send troops to escort his in-law Wang Chucun to take office.
.However, Hebei was still fighting at that time, and no one wanted to talk to Tian Lingzi. Now that the war is over, we don’t know how it will develop.
From the perspective of the Dingnan Army, Shao Shude certainly did not want Wang Chucun to be the governor of the Hezhong Festival. Are you kidding me? The Wang and Li families have been married for generations. If Wang Chucun becomes the commander of the Hezhong Festival, Li Keyong's brother Kexiu will become half of the commander.
Zhaoyijieshuai, this Li family is too powerful and must be stopped!
Wang Chongrong should be quite panicked now. If you think about it, Wang Chucun might come to be the commander-in-chief of the Hezhong Festival. After all, this place has the benefit of salt ponds and is quite wealthy. And he is Li Keyong's in-law. What will be Li Keyong's attitude?
?Tend to him?
It's time to send someone to have a good chat with Wang Chongrong.
On the sixth day of July, Shao Shude returned to Xiazhou.
They captured the two prefectures of Lingyan and subdued some of the Hexi party members. The tribes on the Kujiesha side were also defeated by the returning Jinglue Army and Yi Congjun. They beheaded more than a thousand people, captured 2,000 people, and obtained tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses and camels.
Head, and everyone else obeyed.
At least the town seems to be stable on the surface. We can rest for a while and pay close attention to the situation in Guandong and Guanzhong.
He had a premonition that in the next few months, there would be a series of dramas between the towns on Guannei Road and Hedong Road, and a military encounter was a high probability event. As the commander-in-chief of the Difficult Army with more than 30,000 troops, he was most likely to
Also be involved.
The matter of gaining population for the development of Lingzhou may be solved together. There are more than 2 million people in more than 20 counties of Jingzhao Prefecture, and there are also 300,000 or 400,000 in Tonghua Prefecture. It is impossible for me to occupy Guanzhong in the short term, so then
We can only think of ways to engage people first.
Laying a solid foundation and consolidating the fundamentals is nothing more than this.