On the school grounds outside the city, the sergeants had no idea. They all happily received their rewards, thanked Wang Yan, the food envoy, and then lined up back to the camp.
Wang Yan was doing the work of distributing rewards very seriously, and kept instructing the envoys to be careful, and his voice was a little hoarse. At this time, he only felt grateful.
The moment Duyu Housi was grabbed by the rebels, he was really despairing, thinking that he was going to die. He still had old parents to support, a lovely wife to take care of, and a young child. How could he
What about dying here and now?
Unexpectedly, the warriors thought that he distributed military rations, never lacked rewards, and was a good man, so they let him go and only killed his followers.
Tao Jianzhao and others were all dead. Among the generals who survived in Duyuhousi, Wang Yan was the highest ranking.
If you are not grateful, when will you be grateful?
"The sky in the river is about to change." Wang Yan whispered in a voice that could only be heard by him: "Wang Yao is not as good as Wang Gong, and he actually dares to lead a wolf into the house. Shao Shude is so easy to deal with.
?That’s all, it’s all the sins of the Wang family’s descendants themselves.”
After packing up his things and returning to the city, Wang Yan went to Jiedu to resume his duties.
"Commander?" Wang Yao's face looked a little sad, which made Wang Yan a little strange.
He was born in the Longmen Wang family. Strictly speaking, he was not from the same branch as the Qixian Wang family. They belonged to the Taiyuan Wang family.
The founder of the Wang family in Qixian County was Wang Yun, a famous minister of the Later Han Dynasty, and the founder of the Wang family in Taiyuan was the brothers Wang Rou and Wang Ze, the generals of the Later Han Dynasty.
There are different opinions on whether there is a blood relationship between the two bloodlines, but in fact they are two people, and they have been fighting fiercely for hundreds of years.
There are several big families in Hedong, such as the Wenxi Pei family. Over the past dynasties, they have produced 59 prime ministers, 14 ministers, 59 generals, 55 ministers, governors, and governors, hundreds of them.
In addition, Fenyin Xue family, Jiexian Liu family, Xia County Sima family, Anyi Feng family, etc. are also considered big families, but they are actually not as good as Qixian Wang family, because Wang Zong, Wang Chongrong, Wang Chongying, Wang Ke, Wang
The three generations of Yao warriors control the military power in the river, which is more important than anything else.
Now it seems that the Wang family in Qixian County is showing signs of decline, just like the Liu family in Fenyin and the Sima family in Xia County. On the contrary, the Feng family in Anyi began to rise rapidly, and the Wenxi Pei family continued to rise to the top, with one prefecture and four states in the river.
The structure of the aristocratic family has changed!
"Oh, Ambassador Wang, have all the rewards been distributed?" Wang Yao's voice was a little hoarse, and she kept talking to the military academies around her, only taking the time to reply to him.
"Come back to the commander, everything has been distributed. Plan to distribute the money."
Wang Yao waved his hand and said: "I already know. I still need to trouble Wang Shijun to transfer 40,000 yuan of money and 80,000 pieces of silk to Yuhousi, the capital. Shuofang's army has come a long way and needs to be rewarded."
"Follow your orders." Although the treasury was empty, he could still get this little money and silk. Xia Jun was also a martial artist. If they didn't get the reward, God knows what they would have done. Wang Yan understood this very well.
"Now that you know it, let's handle it as soon as possible." Wang Yao waved her hand and continued talking to her subordinates.
Wang Yan left the commander's mansion after saluting, and then he didn't know where to go.
Du Yu Housi seems to be occupied by the Xia army. Should he go back? Besides, there are not many colleagues left, and the military government was paralyzed for a while.
That's all, go back and have a look, and then go to the military envoy's Yamen.
There were many wolf-like and tiger-like sergeants in front of Duyu Housi's gate, carrying out corpses one by one.
Wang Yan's heart trembled when he saw it. He took a closer look and felt even colder to the bottom of his heart.
He knows Zhang Youxian, the tenth general, from Linjin County!
Another corpse came out, Sun Cheng, a native of Jie County, and Yuhou of the shogunate.
Wang Yan was already numb.
These people's positions are not high. At the level of deputy general, ten generals, and Yamen, they can only be considered middle-level in a feudal town, but they are also the backbone!
Were all these people killed by Shao Shude?
Wang Yan did not dare to think any further. Under the dangerous gaze of the Xia soldiers, he bravely entered Duyuhousi.
"Let's talk about salt profit. Before the Mang Dynasty, the country did not pay much attention to salt profit. The system was the same as that of the Sui Dynasty, with officials and the people sharing it." There was a conversation in his ears. Wang Yan lowered his head and did not dare to look.
I walked towards my government office at the foot of the wall. I didn't know if it was occupied by someone.
Is it just salt profit? Why are we talking about salt profit?
Of course Wang Yan knew that before the Anshi Rebellion, the court had never thought of making money from the people on salt. At that time, the salt pond in the river was "shared by officials and the people" and anyone could use it and pick it up at will. After all, the court's expenses were not large.
, apart from war, there is official salary.
But the official salary is really not much, because the number of officials and miscellaneous officials (subordinates) in the dynasty is really small compared to the past dynasties, and the expenditure is not large. Wars, mainly occurred in Nanzhao
, Turks, Khitan, Tubo, and the Western Regions, the country only had 580,000 troops at its peak, and there were also some military station subsidies, so the finances could cope with the streamlined bureaucracy, the number of soldiers, and careful budgeting.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the number of warriors exceeded one million, coupled with the reduction of household registration, frequent wars, so it was necessary to make a fuss about salt.
Why are these two people talking about salt? Do they want to use the financial resources of Hezhong Mansion?
"Puzhou salt profit originally had 700,000 yuan, but in recent years, it has been disturbed by the Marshal's Guanbei salt, and has been reduced to less than 600,000, but it is still a big source of wealth. Shuofang salt profit, as I expected, is not bad
, it should be around 300,000, right?”
"almost."
"If all the salt in the river is used to support the army, it can support 20,000 yamen troops. The general will naturally have no shortage of salt. When I was in Fengzhou, I saw a large number of soldiers were recruited from the salt pond. Youzhou, Yanzhou, Lingzhou
There are many salt ponds in Fengzhou and Fengzhou, and they can even be transported by big rivers. The salt quality is not bad, so naturally they don’t like river salt. However, the place in Hezhong is good, and Hedong, Henan, and Shannan all rely on it. Even some counties in Hebei also use river salt.
, and do not eat the sea salt from Yichang Army. This huge profit cannot be given to Puzhou."
"Salt is of great use to me. It will cost a lot of money to move the family of the sergeant in Lingzhou."
"Actually, the burden on the people of Puzhou is really light. With grain from Jinjiang and salt ponds from Jie County, is it a big burden to raise an army of 50,000? No. The commander-in-chief only needs to seize the money and food, and Puzhou will be free.
He can only support 20,000 troops, with a maximum of 30,000. In addition, if Hexi County Customs, Pujin Pass, and Fenglingdu Customs are in his hands again, Wang Yao will feel very uncomfortable. Maybe he cannot support 30,000 people. Forcibly
If you raise them, the sergeants will be dissatisfied and start making troubles every day, just asking for trouble. If you raise them less, there will be nothing to worry about."
Who is this old guy? Wang Yan was surprised, he was just trying to get rid of the firewood!
He openly talked about the new commander Wang Yao and didn't pay attention to him at all. He was undoubtedly from the Shuofang Army. But judging from his accent, he seemed to be from Hezhong Prefecture. Alas, some people turned to him.
He took a sneak peek and suddenly realized that it was Feng Yanqing. He was also a celebrity in Hezhong Prefecture and Shaanxi Province. He often attended various gatherings and was known to many people.
With such a local snake thrown in, haha, no wonder Shao Shude is thinking about the salt pond.
The Feng family has surrendered, will the Pei family be far behind?
Will the Sima, Liu, and Xue families, who are already on the decline, rush to seek refuge?
Er, Longmen Wang family, this...
Wang Yan sneaked into his office, and surprisingly, he saw his colleague Liu Mi, who was born in the Liu family.
"Inspector Liu, are you still alive?" Wang Yan was a little surprised.
"I've been hiding in the toilet for two days, and the water and rice haven't come in." Liu Mi said with a frightened look on his face: "Shuofang's army will leave Duyuhousi today."
"Then where are they going?" Wang Yanqi asked.
"Prince Lingwu is temporarily staying at Tao Jianzhao's home," Liu Mi said.
Tao Jianzhao's whole family was killed by the rebels, leaving them deserted, which is indeed very appropriate.
"Mr. Tao is really unlucky." Liu Mi said mysteriously: "Today I heard from Sergeant Shuofang that Mr. Tao's mansion and fields will be sold, and the proceeds will be used to provide food and medicine for the people traveling on the road.
"
"Exiled people? Where did they come from?"
"Five thousand families of rebel soldiers will all be sent to Hexi." Liu Mi only said one sentence and stopped talking.
Wang Yan took a breath, this is really tyranny. However, in the military rebellion that just passed, the Tielin Army reportedly killed two thousand people, and the Jiangzhou Army also killed a thousand people when they entered the city. Most of the five thousand households lost their lives.
The backbone, otherwise there will definitely be trouble, and chaos halfway is inevitable.
The two of them were chatting on one side, while Shao Shude and Feng Yanqing on the other side were almost done talking.
The salt profit in the river is 600,000 yuan a year, and Shao Shude plans to use it for one thing, that is, the great migration of the population.
Five thousand families of rebel soldiers were all sent to Hexi Town. This may be the last time they immigrate to Hexi in a short time.
Wang Bian did an outstanding job in Huazhou before, and exiled more than ten thousand people from high-ranking wealthy families to Liangzhou. This year, he killed hundreds of people and exiled ten thousand people in Hexi, so that Shao Shude had to give him an order to take it easy.
Hexi Town received immigrants from the Central Plains and 5,000 Bian Army prisoners. If we include the 5,000 families of Hezhong rebels who will be deported (assuming 60%), the registered household population of Hexi Town will reach more than 250,000, including
Liangzhou has about 39,000 households and more than 150,000 people, and Ganzhou has more than 29,000 households and more than 107,000 people.
The household registration in Liangzhou has slightly exceeded that of the imperial dynasty, which shows the intensity of immigration and cannibalization of the population of the Hu people.
Ganzhou's household registration is far higher than that in the heyday of the dynasty. At that time, there were only more than 20,000 people, but now 100,000 is already an exaggeration. Although during the Uighur era, Ganzhou was said to have 300,000 people living in it, but this was only as a result.
The population that can only be found in the "capital", if compared to ordinary states and counties, is over 100,000, which is almost close to the limit.
Hexi Town is not suitable for accepting any more immigrants. The rest must rely on natural reproduction and turning the wild animals into summer. If we continue to randomly crowd in immigrants, we may still be able to live, but the damage to the environment will be considerable, and Shao Shude does not want to do this.
Some people are going west and others are coming east. This matter is very difficult.
Two years after he went east to attack Heluo, Shao Shude discovered a fatal problem, that is, Luoyang was too far away from Lingzhou.
It took more than two months for the sergeant to come here, and it took the same amount of time to get back. It was really unbearable.
And you can't keep the sergeants in the Central Plains all the time, otherwise they will be dissatisfied and angry if they can't see their families for a long time.
Shao Shude didn't want to test the bottom line of his army, and he didn't want to see how far his sons would endure before making noise or even causing chaos. It was unnecessary, as this would only consume his own prestige.
And since we don't stay in the Central Plains for a long time, the continuity of the attack will cause problems, and too many troops cannot be mobilized at the same time. This problem must be solved.
He decided to move the families of the soldiers out of Lingzhou in batches and to Shanxi and Jiangzhou. But this matter was very sensitive, and unrest would occur if he was not careful, so he decided to start simple.
The Chishui Army has completed its two-year garrison period in Xiedan. They were established in a short period of time, not many have started families, and their ties with Lingzhou are not that strong, so they just happened to be transferred to Jiangzhou to settle down.
The one who took over the defense was the Zhenwu Army, which happened to escort 5,000 households of Hezhong people to Liangzhou, and then headed to Jiedan to garrison.
The Second Army of Guzhen and Wuxing had just completed their two-year garrison period in Xingfengliang, and Shao Shude had ordered them to march to the middle of the river.
Taking over the defense were the Heyuan Army Li Ren's Department and the Jishi Army Li Yixian's Department. The former guarded Bailao Pass in Xingyuan Prefecture, and the latter guarded Xingzhou Guzhen.
Before leaving, these two armies will head to Hezhong to undergo reorganization, that is, using Tielin and Zhenwu armies as the backbone, they will complete the reorganization of the two old armies of Heyuan and Jishi.
This year is destined to be a year of rectification.
Military, household registration, finance, system, overhaul, and seize the time to digest Hezhong Prefecture.
"Commander, there is news from Hedong that Li Ke used Guizhou to defeat Yan. After Hu's army, he took advantage of the situation and entered Juyongguan. He won another victory in Changping and killed more than 10,000 people. He should have reached the gates of Youzhou City by now. It is said that Li Kuangchou returned to Youzhou after his defeat.
, the army was killed in chaos, and the army promoted Gao Siji as the leader and surrendered to Li Keyong." Just as he sent people to send Feng Yanqing to the post house, Shao Shude received the military report, and it was Chen Cheng and Zhao Guangfeng who sent it together.
Come.
"Oh? My sworn brother's luck is almost as good as mine." Shao Shude laughed, took the military newspaper and read it carefully.
Li Kuangwei played tricks on his sister-in-law, and "brothers, friends, and brothers respectfully" were staged in Youzhou. The king's flag changed on the city wall, but the morale of the army was also destroyed, and people's hearts were in confusion. The sworn brother took advantage of this moment to attack, which was really good luck.
The script played by the adopted brother Shao Shude here is "Introducing the Wolf into the House".
Brothers Wang Ke and Wang Yao led Uncle Shao, who had a kind face but a dark heart, over, w. He Zhong was probably going to be far away from the Wang family.
But there is a third scenario: brothers fighting against each other.
Huo Yi was engaged in a boring offensive and defensive battle, and the relationship between Li Keyong and Shao Shude did not seem to be harmonious.
In the Tang Dynasty, there is so much chaos among the brothers!
"The surrender of Youzhou must be conditional." Shao Shude said after reading it: "The Yan soldiers are good at fighting and have sufficient money and food. What strength does Li Keyong have to conquer Youzhou?"
Historically, Li Keyong attacked Youzhou. He first defeated Li Kuangchou in a field battle outside Xinzhou City, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and captured more than 300 generals. Then he tied up these 300 people and showed them to the public outside Xinzhou City.
Few, Kaicheng, please surrender.
In the same month, he attacked Guizhou again. Li Kuangchou searched for the army and came again, but was defeated again.
These two field battles severely weakened the main force of the Yan army. There were no soldiers in Youzhou City, so they surrendered.
But as far as the entire Youzhou Town is concerned, the number of outer town troops, government offices stationed outside, and state soldiers is still extremely large. There are also vassal tribes behind the mountains. Li Keyong appointed Liu Rengong as the military envoy. Although there was an old-school warlord mentality at work,
There are also factors of insufficient strength.
You have a larger population, a larger army, and more money and food than any other country. It is indeed a bit exaggerated to swallow up Youzhou Town in one go. You can't kill all the big soldiers in Youzhou. They are comparable to Wei Bo's Yamen soldiers.
Since the unruly people exist, it is better to support an agent and collect money and food.
This time, Li Keyong still faced the same problem.
Do you have the courage to swallow up Youzhou in one go? Or should you compromise with the local military leaders in Youzhou and just accept a vassal?
The two sworn brothers are now facing the same situation.
Shao Shude had already taken the first step, severely cheated Wang Yao, and planned to exile 5,000 families of rebel soldiers to Hexi. He was very determined.
He wanted to see how Li Keyong chose. Would he dare to swallow it in one gulp?