Chapter 10: A hundred thousand bears are like a tide (2)
"I wish the king a happy return." In the palace of Lingwu County, Zhe Fangmei personally dressed Shao Shude in a bright red military uniform.
"I owe my wife a lot." Shao Shude grabbed her hand and said.
Zhe Fangmai glared at him angrily. Some things either never start, or start more than once. She clearly agreed to it just this once, but how come later...
Last night, he even wanted the little girl from the Yeli family to sleep with him, but Yeli Lingji seemed to be pregnant and vomited violently, so he gave up.
“Bring my son here.”
The house was full of maids from the Zhe family, and soon someone came to hug her.
The son was sleeping soundly. Shao Shude took it gently, looked at it with a smile for a long time, and then handed it to his mother's hand and said: "Sleep peacefully, my son. Let's see my grandpa go and fight for you."
Zhe Fangmai chuckled, glanced at Shao Shude charmingly, and thought to herself: Lang Jun is hiding the daughter of the Tuoba family, maybe let him have some sweets next time, but he is not allowed to bring it home.
It was also the first time for Shao Shude to see his wife so charming in a serious situation. Zhe Fang Ai always appeared in front of everyone in the house with a mature, polite, dignified and majestic image. As for the soft side such as begging for mercy and drooling, she only kept it to herself.
It was shown in front of me. Well, Miao'e should have seen it when I didn't hide it last time. No wonder my beloved wife is so angry.
After saying goodbye to his wife and children, Shao Shude went directly to the Tielin Army camp under the escort of his own soldiers.
In this expedition, we should first go to Yanzhou, then go to Danzhou, station at the border, and explore information, and then go south to Guanzhong.
On August 30th, more than 7,000 soldiers of the military army went ahead, escorting a large amount of grain, grass, and equipment.
Yesterday, the left wing of the Yi Congjun and some auxiliary troops marched again, also escorting a large amount of supplies.
Today is the second day of September. The Tielin Army and the Iron Cavalry Army will also move south in a large scale. Tomorrow, the right wing of the Yi Cong Army and some auxiliary troops will set off with the last batch of grain, grass and supplies.
The army of thirty-three thousand, known as one hundred thousand, was divided into four groups, separated by one day's journey, and marched directly to Yanzhou in a mighty manner.
The army did not march very fast. On the fifth day of September, Shao Shude reached Wuyan City, and on the fifteenth day, it reached Ningshuo County, Xiazhou.
Changze and Ningshuo counties have reclaimed a lot of land this year. The former is mainly military farms, and the latter is sergeant land, both of which were moved from Suizhou.
The Luhe River Basin at the junction of the two counties originally had a lot of land, but after the conquest of Lingzhou, it seemed difficult to recruit people to farm it. Therefore, the subsequent work of opening the river completely stopped, and the land that had been reclaimed was left to the two counties.
Let's digest it slowly. Even if most of the people captured from Guanzhong are sent to Lingzhou, the other states will get some. It's just a ratio.
Tuoba Dangxiang and his die-hard tribal herdsmen who opened the river could not breathe a sigh of relief, because they were about to be sent to dig coal. Shao Shude told them that if they dug for two more years, they would be pardoned for their sins, and then they would be reorganized into households and the people would be given financial aid.
Land. People have to give hope, otherwise the work efficiency will be too low.
Speaking of charcoal, it has already been used in the military.
When the Yamen army was stationed near Xiazhou, the army no longer went out to cut firewood, but instead used charcoal to boil water for cooking. The auxiliary soldiers were already used to this kind of fuel, and even found it quite useful.
After the official waste wood donation next year, the welfare firewood distributed to officials will also be changed to charcoal to further reduce the demand for firewood. As for what people use, there is no hard requirement. However, as far as citizens living in the city are concerned, charcoal
It has strong firepower and is cheap. If used for a long time, charcoal is still more cost-effective and the cost of living will be reduced a lot.
These city dwellers were originally the main customers of rural woodcutters, but now that they are no longer needed, woodcutters are about to lose their jobs on a large scale. It’s true that some people are happy and some are sad. Well, if they lose their jobs, no one will rebel because of it, right?
However, Marshal Shao is also trying to find jobs for them. It seems a bit luxurious to directly use coal to boil water for cooking. Recently, Dashuai plans to build a coal washing plant. After washing the coal, pulverized coal will precipitate in the sewage. After the pulverized coal is dried, it can
Mix with yellow mud to make honeycomb briquettes.
In Shao Dashuai’s childhood memory in his previous life, there were briquettes and coal stoves, which had no technical requirements and were very low cost. A large number of woodcutters were recruited to make briquettes and sold them to the citizens for a profit to solve their life problems.
I just don’t know how efficient manual production is, and coal stoves don’t seem to be popular nowadays. It’s hard to say whether there is market demand for this.
Do you want to vigorously promote it yourself? Well, if he needs to do this, he will do it. It is difficult to fix the six states, but he cannot afford to cut down trees. Shao still remembers that during the Qing Dynasty in later generations, he marched westward to Xinjiang and held a stalemate with the enemy for several months.
All the poplar trees nearby that had grown for thousands of years were cut down.
The army was encamped, collecting firewood every day, and the efficiency of cutting down trees was terrifying. The south could withstand the construction, but the northwest could not!
When he was in Ningshuo County, an urgent message came from the Wang Division, saying that King Chongrong had listed Tian Lingzi's ten crimes and planned to punish him. Tian Lingzi issued an order to the towns in Guanzhong and got Fengxiang Festival Commander Li Changfu, Xingning Festival Commander Zhu Mei, Jingyuan Festival Commander
In response to Commander Cheng Zongchu's response, the three men marched to Chang'an.
In fact, Shao Shude also received an imperial decree from the imperial court to send troops to attack Hezhong, but he was thrown directly into the collection room.
This is a mess of orders, and you don’t follow the imperial edict!
Li Shao, the commander-in-chief of Shuofang Festival, sent the imperial edict to Xiazhou. After receiving instructions from Shao Shude, he continued to be busy with the affairs of Lingzhou Capital Academy.
Dongfang Kui and Danyan Li Xiaochang of Fangfang also sent envoys to Xiazhou. After a conversation, they all refused to obey the edict. At the same time, they prepared food and grass to wait for the difficult army to cross the border. As for the Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army, they attacked Huangchao last time
None of them came, and it’s even less likely this time.
In the nine towns northwest of Beijing, when the imperial edict came, only three families responded. There are fewer and fewer loyal ministers!
By the way, the loyal minister Wang Chucun returned home. He was originally unwilling to move to the river, but the court urged him repeatedly and reluctantly agreed. However, when he reached Jinzhou, the city gate was closed and he didn't recognize him at all, so he went back to Yiwu directly.
Army. Perhaps, this is in line with his original intention.
Wang Chucun was actually quite loyal. When Huang Chao withdrew from Chang'an and fled to Henan, no one asked for it. He directly sent three thousand troops from Hebei to continue chasing Huang Chao. What he did was indeed worthy of the word "loyal minister". Shao
People also had a good impression of him, but it was a pity that he was too close to Xuanwu and Zhu Wen, and his son could not keep the family business after his death.
"It is impossible for the entire army of Fengxiang, Jingyuan, and Pingning to march out. The total maximum is 20,000 people. Of the three commanders, Cheng Zongchu is considered a loyal minister, Zhu Mei is hard to say, and Li Changfu is just a villain." Shao Shude reported the information.
He handed it over to Chen Cheng, the judge of the Tielin Army, and said: "The Shence Army is unable to fight. If we want to defeat Wang Chongrong, we can only rely on the 20,000 troops in the three towns. Wang Chongrong has 30,000 soldiers. I heard that he has also begged Li Keyong recently, plus
Our anti-disaster army has hundreds of thousands of people, how can we defeat them?"
“We only made one town difficult, and then we sent out a hundred thousand troops.” Chen Cheng said.
Shao Shude laughed. He sent out 33,000 troops, claiming it was 100,000. It was an ordinary thing.
I wonder what the soldiers and horses in Fengxiang, Yingning, and Jingyuan towns thought after hearing that their "hundred-thousand-thousand-strong army" was heading south. Were they so frightened that they simply withdrew their troops?
But it is easy to send troops, but it is not so easy to withdraw them. Fengxiang Town is okay, it has some economic strength. Xingning and Jingyuan towns are very poor. Before sending troops, the commander must have made a lot of promises. Now you want to leave?
Can you leave without any benefit? You can't take advantage of the emperor before talking about it?
"Commander, if the situation is like this, it is better to change the route and go directly to Yanzhou, Yanzhou, and Fangzhou to peek into Guanzhong. If the troops from the three towns go east to Tongzhou and fight with the 30,000 troops in the river, we will go directly south to Fuping.
Cutting off its retreat can also save the people in Guanzhong. The insurgents are raging and will surely plunder the prefectures and counties. The people's lives will be miserable and miserable. If the commander can save them, his prestige will be even greater. If the troops in the three towns stationed in Chang'an remain stationary, it can also be done.
He pressed forward and forced the soldiers and horses from the three towns to retreat, while recruiting the people. The commander-in-chief only had to send people to the counties to tell Shatuo soldiers and horses from the east of the river that they were about to come. They would burn, kill, loot and leave no survivors. The people would be frightened and would definitely be willing to leave," Chen Cheng said.
In fact, some people have already gone north to Yifang to seek refuge. Some knowledgeable people have gone directly to Xiazhou with their families. Regardless of whether there will be a war this time, Guanzhong will definitely be full of disasters in the future.
You ask the reason? It’s very simple. The emperor is like this, and the feudal towns are despising them. Will they still be obedient? There may be a few people who are obedient now, but what about in a few years? Since they are not obedient, they will attack and annex each other, then
Is there any way for the people to survive?
The past two years after Huang Chao was driven away may have been the last peaceful days in Guanzhong. Those who have this knowledge certainly want to go to a stable place. Yifang is close and relatively stable, and many people go there. But Ding
Nanliu Prefecture seems to be more stable, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Now that we have reached Yifang, if we still have some troubles, we might as well continue north to Suizhou.
"Judge Chen's words make sense." Shao Shude ordered Feng Yin to get the map, and while looking at it, he said: "Go to Yanzhou first, and then check the situation. Originally, I asked Dongfang Kui to prepare food and grass, although it may not be needed.
This time we will see if this person is cheating on someone. If he is not prepared, he must be scolded."
Marshal Shao held a large number of troops, and his tone of speech was also different. Dongfang Kui defended the army in a dignified way, and Marshal Shao said he would reprimand him, and everyone took it for granted.
