The New Year's Eve in the Northland comes quietly in the wind and snow.
The two states have been quiet for a long time. Even in the big city of Jinyang, no one deliberately welcomes the arrival of the New Year.
The war has brought too much pain to people, and the New Year's Eve has really become a checkpoint day. For ordinary people, it is a great celebration to prepare some meat for the children.
Although the wealthy families do not care about food and clothing, no one wants to show off their wealth and splendor at this time. Even in the three counties of Yanmen, Mayi and Loufan, the wealthy families are also silently nursing their wounds.
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The faint cries in the city of Mayi County lingered at the end of the year. People left the city one after another in the wind and snow to pay homage to their relatives who died in the war.
Among the mausoleums in Yun Nei, there are also many people, and the sound of crying is constant.
The people in Yanmen and Loufan were not so lucky. Many people lost their families and families in the war, but the survivors had no idea where their dead relatives and friends were buried. They could only look to the sky and cry. The tragedy was really heartbreaking.
Can't bear to hear it.
To this day, since the conquest of Liaodong in the eighth year of Daye's reign, until the Turks went south several times, how many casualties did the people of Daizhou have suffered, how many women, children and elderly people died of cold and hunger, or how many casualties they suffered during the uprising.
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Nowadays, no one is willing to take it seriously, and there is no way to calculate it.
According to some rough private estimates by some officials, there is no need to compare it with the early days of Daye. It is simply incomparable. People who died in various labors cannot be counted.
Therefore, compared with the Seventh Year of Daye, the population of Daizhou should have dropped by more than half.
Even with the population of Youzhou as a supplement, Daizhou could not recover in a short period of time. However, the number of captured Turks has exceeded 100,000, which is a large number.
And what do these cold numbers mean to the people of Daizhou?
That means that the male-to-female ratio of Daizhou's population is extremely unbalanced. It means that almost every household has died in the war. It means that in these almost seven years, the people of Daizhou have shed all their blood and suffered enough.
Many people are even unwilling to mention the word "great cause". The cruel emperor and ferocious foreign enemies have put the people of Daizhou, good and bad, high and low, in dire straits.
Of course, compared to people in Hebei, Shandong, Henan and the western parts of the Huaihe River, they are quite lucky.
After the suffering, they ushered in a ruler who was willing to give them stability. Although this period was short-lived, it gave people hope.
Next year will be a new beginning, and it will not be the fifteenth year of our great cause.
There was no year in the year, but the people of Daizhou were full of longing. The emperor who brought them suffering died, and the Turkic Shibi Khan who caused them pain also died.
If possible, this New Year's Eve celebrates the deaths of these two men.
Bingzhou is also very quiet. They have not experienced many wars, but they cannot be said to be very stable in recent years.
There were quite a few Bingzhou Erlangs who followed Li Yuan south, and most of the Tang army's dead in the battle at Yanmen this year were Bingzhou people, so this year was not easy either.
Some people are mourning their dead relatives, and some are thinking about their sons and daughters in a foreign land. There is not much joy, and the cold wind is full of melancholy and sorrow.
But some people think completely different...
There is another Su Sima in the General Mansion, and Wen Yanbo is promoted to Shi, the Chief of the General Mansion.
The military and political framework of the General Administration Office was gradually being completed during this winter, and the two Guard Offices gradually began to issue military orders.
During this winter, Li Po basically completed the mastering and sorting out the military and political affairs of the two states. What he has to do next is to continue to refine and make the system more hierarchical and efficient, accompanied by various
kind of restriction.
When the new year was approaching, Li Po finally felt a little more relaxed. In terms of political affairs, there were Chen Xiaoyi, Wen Yanbo, Su Dan and others. In terms of military affairs, there were two guards to share the responsibilities.
In other words, if nothing major happened, he would not have to worry about many things and would have to do it himself.
Su Dan recommended three candidates, and Li Po just looked at them and smiled.
He recognized all three of them. One was Yuchi Xin. Needless to say, brother Yuchi and Su Dan were Li Po who went to Yunneitou together, so naturally they were good friends with each other.
This is just a matter of course, and it's reasonable.
But even if Yuchi Xin wanted to be the governor of Loufan, Li Po would not agree. The infantry army formed by the Yuchi brothers was remarkable in terms of combat effectiveness.
Needless to say the importance of the infantry in order to fight south. To allow Yu Chixin to succeed Loufan as the prefect at this time would be to break one's arms.
Moreover, Li Po has already thought about Yu Chixin's whereabouts...
The next two people, one with the surname Zhang and the other with the surname Wang, both have Jinyang surnames.
One is the current general manager, Cao Cao, who joined the army, and the other is a meritorious Cao of Taiyuan County, who joined the army. Needless to say, their origins are both members of the Jinyang clan.
The Zhang family and the Wen family in Jinyang were married, not to mention the Wang family in Jinyang. They must have been recommended by Yu Wenxin to Su Yu.
Now Li Po had something to say, and he scolded Su Dan with a gun and a stick.
If you can't keep your money bag in the future, what's the use of him? If you want to have both sides, have you really thought about it? Let's learn Wen Yanbo's way of doing things first...
Su Dan left in shame, his pride turning into cold sweat.
One is the magistrate of Loufan and the other is the magistrate of Mayi.
Li Po was also familiar with these two people. Loufan County Magistrate was the descendant of the former Governor Lin, and his surname was also Lin, so he should be a descendant of Lin Hu.
It’s just that he is not connected by blood to Prefect Lin who was killed by Li Po. Otherwise, he would not have been able to live in the position of Loufan County Magistrate for so long. It is worth mentioning that this person is an old member of the Yinshi Division and was once a soldier.
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The Magistrate of Mayi County was the Magistrate Lu of Zhuo County who was taken to Daizhou.
These two people were more reliable. Li Po didn't give any face to anyone and directly appointed him as the magistrate of Jin Loufan of Mayi County.
Zhang Yunzhi was selected from among the previous three people to serve as Loufan County Magistrate.
This made Yu Wenxin, who originally wanted to stay in Jinyang for a few more days, feel on pins and needles, so he came to say goodbye to Li Po the next day.
Li Po smiled and said to him, "It's better to go back early. You must know that the most destructive things are people's minds. If you don't reach it, there will be disaster... From this point of view, Yanmen should be quieter, right?"
Yu Wenxin was sweating coldly. When he returned to his residence, he immediately ordered his followers to pack their bags and set off for the north. After some consideration, he reluctantly stayed in Jinyang for one more day and then took his people out of the General Manager's Mansion and headed north back to Yanmen.
This incident left a great psychological shadow on Yu Wenxin. After that, he stayed in Yanmen quite honestly and conscientiously. It was obvious that he was bluffed by Li Po.
(Monthly pass, a new volume, a new starting point.)