As the autumn harvest was approaching, Yang Xiu led his staff to inspect the county, focusing on river valleys suitable for farming.
Compared with grazing, farming can feed a larger population with less land. River valleys are often the places with the highest concentration of household registrations, and are also areas that powerful families compete for.
In addition to farming, river water can also provide water and power for mills, paper mills, iron mills and other workshops, which plays a non-negligible role in the accumulation of wealth. By occupying the river valley, no matter how small a family is, it can quickly become stronger. If the river valley is lost,
No matter how big the family is, it will quickly decline.
The folk customs in Liangzhou are fierce. In order to compete for water sources, armed fights between families often occur, and sometimes even tragedies of genocide occur. Anyway, Han and Qiang people live together in Liangzhou. If something goes wrong, it is assumed that it is an invasion by the Qiang and Hu.
The prefect and the county magistrate did not dare to take more care, lest they themselves would also be destroyed.
The governorship of Liangzhou is recognized as a high risk. When the Guandong prefectures and counties rise up with troops and separatist power, the locals in Liangzhou still have the final say.
When Yang Xiu first came, he did not dare to act rashly and did not even go out of the city. Until Han Sui defeated Song Jian and Liangzhou Mu Wei Duan saw that he was detained, Jia Xu selected 200 Liangzhou children from the palace to build a student camp.
Only then did he gradually use his hands and feet to inspect various counties in the county to understand the situation.
After looking at several places, he had a rough idea.
Unlike Guandong Prefecture and County families, where the powerful mainly control the official career, the wealthy families in Liangzhou have a difficult official career and place more emphasis on the land they depend on for survival. The land is inherently limited, and when the limited land is occupied by the wealthy families, the survival of ordinary people becomes even more difficult.
Difficult, many people have to turn to robbery as a side job or even their main job.
In order to survive, they will not even spare their brothers. As long as someone is willing to give them a bite to eat, they are willing to slash at anyone with a knife, even if the weapons in their hands are very crude.
There is no such thing as taking life and death lightly, it’s just that survival is too difficult. If you can barely survive, who wouldn’t take your own life seriously?
This is also one of the reasons why Liangzhou suffered from frequent military disturbances.
If we want to solve this problem, we must first solve the distribution of land so that ordinary people can survive without taking desperate risks.
This was certainly not something that could be solved with just a few words, so Yang Xiu chose a relatively mild approach, giving them the opportunity to make contributions in exchange for them giving up their obsession with land. At the same time, he implemented another approach:
It was agreed that landless people would move into Guanzhong to reduce the demand for land and ease the contradiction between man and land.
The rich families are not willing to move easily, but ordinary people are very willing to move into Guanzhong, even if they become military households and need to serve as soldiers.
It is better to become a military household and fight for the imperial court than to become a tribe of a wealthy family.
Under Yang Xiu's hard and soft tactics, Yang Fu and others chose to cooperate with the imperial court and Yang Xiu.
After reaching an agreement, the first step was for the large families who owned land to pay taxes based on the amount of land to provide food for Qiu Fang, instead of collecting food from the common people who had little surplus food in the first place.
The food was provided by the big clan, but the main force in the battle was not the tribes of the big clan, but the county soldiers composed of ordinary people.
Yang Xiu rejected the suggestion of Yang Fu and others to gather tribes from all ethnic groups into the army, and insisted on recruiting troops from ordinary people according to the existing system of the imperial court. He took charge personally, and the county prime minister Wang Wei and others actively cooperated and took advantage of the opportunity of the prefect's inspection.
He sent the news of conscription to all places.
Winter is the most difficult time for people in Liangzhou. I heard that the government not only provides food, but also rewards for meritorious service. The people are very enthusiastic, the recruitment work is going smoothly, and the number of applicants far exceeds expectations.
Yang Xiu selected 3,000 of them, handed them daily training to Jiang Xu and others, and took charge of their own education.
This is his experience, which was verified as early as the Battle of Huayin.
In addition to arranging for Wang Wei and others to teach the soldiers how to read and write, he also insisted on visiting the camps every day, chatting with ordinary soldiers, asking about their lives and hopes for the future, and publicizing the imperial court's Liangzhou policy.
After Song Jian was pacified, the county soldiers who participated in the war returned one after another, bringing a lot of news. Most of the people also heard that the emperor visited Liangzhou, but they didn't think it had anything to do with them before, so they didn't care much. At this moment,
Seeing that the emperor's ministers, the fourth generation and the third prince, Yang Taishou was so approachable, they felt the presence of the imperial court firsthand.
Jiang Xu and others also quickly realized that Yang Xiu was not a scholar who was not familiar with military affairs. Yang Xiu was not only familiar with the art of war, but also had a considerable understanding of specific tactics. There were many details that they may not be aware of, but Yang Xiu was
It's a treasure trove of information, and it's very clear and logical.
This made Jiang Xu and others look at him with admiration.
The previous Hanyang governors did not have such a level. They may be familiar with Confucian classics, but they do not understand or bother to understand these trivial details. When facing battle, they also hid in the city and walked around the city twice at most.
Commanding operations is out of the question.
It seems that Yang Xiu is not only good at riding, he is also familiar with commanding in battle.
It is said that the emperor is the emperor on horseback, and he has extraordinary military skills. It seems that what he said is true.
Faced with Yang Xiu's pressure, Jiang Xu and others did not dare to take it lightly and trained with all their strength. If they were perfunctory, they might not have to wait until the battle, and the soldiers in the camp would dislike them and ask Yang Xiu to take command personally.
When that time comes, they will be embarrassed.
While strengthening training, Yang Xiu sent a letter to the emperor, requesting that Hanyang County soldiers be equipped with a batch of armor, so that all soldiers in the county could wear armor. Considering that the Qiang and Hu weapons they faced were worse, they did not need particularly good armor.
Just replace it with what it was before.
Half a month later, the emperor's reply arrived. Hedong had been arranged to allocate armor. In addition to the ordinary armor requested by Yang Xiu, there were also several sets of newly made fine armor as equipment for the generals and as rewards for the meritorious officers.
The specific allocation is in the hands of Yang Xiu.
Another half month later, the armor arrived from Hedong. Although it was all old armor, it had been carefully repaired and maintained, and its protective capabilities were sufficient. Yang Xiu ordered people to distribute the armor to the place and asked the soldiers to familiarize themselves with it as soon as possible so that they could perform their duties appropriately.
The protective effect increases the survival rate on the battlefield.
All three thousand knights were wearing armor, which greatly boosted morale.
Yang Xiu showed off another set of new armor and told all the soldiers that this was the new armor made by the Anyi Iron Official under the command of the emperor. It not only had good protective capabilities, but was also lighter. Of course, it was also expensive, and it was not possible to do it yet.
Full equipment, only soldiers who have excellent training and have made meritorious service on the battlefield can get it. This is not only a set of armor, but also a reward from the emperor to the warriors of Liangzhou.
The distribution of these new sets of armor is not based on official position or family background, but only on personal performance. Training performance and meritorious service are the only two criteria for judging. On the day of your triumph, I will distribute these armors to those who are worthy in public at the celebration banquet.
The brave warriors were recorded in the county annals and left to their descendants.
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of Jiang Xu and others turned red.
No matter how valuable the armor is, its value is limited, but the honor represented by the armor is hard to buy, which is equivalent to the imperial title.