Baibo Valley is difficult to control. It is said to be a valley, but in fact it is the remnants of the Luliang Mountains. It has towering mountains, intertwined valleys, mountains on its back and rivers on its back, and the terrain is complex. There are all kinds of bandits active here.
Among the five forces that came to surrender at Taniguchi, Guo Tai was a Yellow Turban, Yang Feng was the spokesperson of the Hedong clan, and the other three tribes also had their own ways of selling stolen goods. They were closely related to the local people and were not simple figures.
They are just part of the Baibo thieves. There are also a number of small groups of bandits, deserters, criminals, mountain people, runaways, and farmers who farm in their busy time and rob in their free time. There are also water bandits upstream and downstream, and private salt collectors in the salt ponds.
Dealers, they will also go into the mountains to hide when the wind is tense, and the ingredients are too complex to explain.
It swims in the water, runs on the ground, and buries in the soil. It’s a hodgepodge.
Unless the army pushes back and cuts down the mountains and destroys the strongholds, no one can control the den of thieves in Baibo Valley.
If they wanted to ambush soldiers and horses here, the five bandits could not make a big move. Each of them was given the official position of commander of a separate department to appease them. Each department recruited a thousand people to accompany the army. Yang Feng was ordered to join the army and take charge of this army. He was
As the spokesperson of a local big family, we can't let him know about the rebellion, at least not now.
He led the team back to the camp that afternoon. The next day, Liu Xiang formed an alliance with Guo Tai as the leader of the Black Mountain Army, supporting him in establishing the White Wave Yellow Turban, inheriting the legacy of the great virtuous teacher, fighting the imperial court to the end, and encouraging him to annex the other ministries, especially the
After the army set off, Yang Feng lost his leader.
Later, he met with Han Xian, Li Le, and Hu Cai in private, and expressed to them his desire to occupy Fenshui as a financial avenue. He also vaguely revealed the number of ways he wanted to take both black and white, and supported them to become captains here.
Thoughts, secretly expressed: too many people, it is easy to leak secrets, one person sitting here is the best choice.
Liu Xiang just wanted to provoke internal fighting among them. They were originally bandits who often fought each other. He transferred Yang Feng and the internal balance was already imbalanced. If he lit the fire again, using his official title, wealth, and ideas as a guide, he was not afraid that they would not take the bait. They only had to
Only when fighting begins will Liu Xiang be needed as a backer, so that the troops and horses here can be controlled by him.
If he was not concerned about the Northern Expedition, had no time to plan slowly, and did not want the court to know about his relationship with the bandits, he could have played a trick and transferred out the Baibo bandits and replaced them with the Black Mountain Army.
Time really doesn't allow it.
On February 12, the third day after accepting the surrender of the Baibo bandits, the imperial edict for the Northern Expedition to Xianbei was issued. His request to the governor of Bingzhou to recruit pack horses and the memorial to recruit three thousand Hu cavalry from the Xiutu tribe were also approved, and the imperial court directly reported to
Zhang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou, and Xiutu's men issued an edict to gather supplies, troops and horses in Jinyang, and Liu Xiang, the general of Zhenbei, took charge of all matters for the Northern Expedition.
There was nothing to hesitate. Five thousand Baibo bandits were appointed as civilians, led by Yang Feng, and assisted by Zuo Liu Biao in managing the supplies. The army set off that day and headed north along the Fen River to Jinyang.
Liu Xiang led more than 7,000 soldiers in front, covering a distance of more than 500 miles in seven days. The following 8,000 civilians will slowly follow the fleet.
A year later, Liu Xiang made a full circle and returned to Jinyang. Communication with Youzhou was much more convenient here. He issued many orders and received many reports.
Youzhou has been quite stable this year. Cui Yi and Yan Rou have stabilized their territory in the east and west. No one dares to resist within the sight of tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of militiamen.
The grain harvest within the territory is bumper, roads are steadily being built, and workshops continue to expand. The 1.4 million immigrants from Jizhou and the large tracts of land in Liaodong have been almost digested.
Two more excellent news came. The trial of water hammer was successful. A dam was built at the intersection of the two rivers in the south of Tuyin to speed up the flow and increase the water power. Forty waterwheels were built ten miles along the coast. Each waterwheel can drive
There are twelve heavy hammers, and the craftsmen work in turns. Nine thousand six hundred pieces of cold-forged armor can be cold-forged in a day and night. This has increased the number of skilled craftsmen and lacquer craftsmen, and can produce more than 150 sets of cold-forged armor every month.
It's a pity that Youzhou is located in the north. It only has six months of wet season to reach full production capacity. During the nearly four-month dry season, only 60% of the production can be produced. During the two-month freeze period, it can only be forged manually. One month
Not many sets were produced.
There were only 600 sets of cold-forged armor in stock last year, but the supervisory engineer predicts that 1,200 sets of cold-forged armor will be produced this year.
Liu Xiang replied and ordered that after the river was opened, the cavalry armor stomach and horse armor were made together.
Another good news is that the prospecting team collectively stepped on shit. Gold and copper mines were discovered in Jundu Mountain, coal veins were discovered in the adjacent Xishan Mountain, and silver and lead associated mines were discovered in Yanshan Mountain in the northeast of Yuyang. It is not easy.
Jundushan has been prospecting for a year and a half, Yuyang has been prospecting for more than two years, and finally there is a response.
He didn't need to say anything about sending people to mine. The general supervisor had already been arranged, and the mines in the factory area had been established. However, there was a shortage of miners, which affected the mining speed.
Liu Xiang replied and asked them to wait patiently. The army would bring them sufficient manpower. He also ordered the supervisor to establish a mint workshop and start casting Ping'an Tongbao. The coins weighed half a tael, with the ratio of copper, six lead, three tin and one.
Let the coin craftsmen explore the beautiful and wear-resistant formula, and the minted coins will be sealed in the treasury for future use.
Minting must start in advance. It is now the fourth year of Zhongping, 177 AD, and Emperor Ling will die in two years. After Dong Zhuo goes to Luo, he will mint inferior coins on a large scale in 190 at the latest, and wildly harvest the wealth of various places.
This wave directly brought the Han currency system to collapse.
After the death of Emperor Ling, Liu Xiang would promote new coins in Youzhou and stabilize the currency system on his own territory before bad coins emerged. As for the method of using bad coins to harvest other places, he could not be the first to take the lead. It would be too hateful.
Not only will he be besieged, but people all over the world will hate him, and the gains outweigh the losses.
That's not how financial wars work.
Dong Zhuo got out of his way. The people didn't care about deposing the emperor and so on. But he also minted bad coins and sent troops to jail, which made everyone in the world want him dead, but he died without a burial place.
Already.
This damn fat man lacks financial concepts, and he doesn't know who gave him this bad idea. It probably wasn't his long-time director Liu Ai, and it couldn't be Jia Xu. As for whether it was Li Ru, Liu Xiang didn't know.
Li Ru actually had no talent, and he was not the mastermind of Fatty Dong. He was the young emperor Liu Bian's lieutenant. He only joined Dong Zhuo's camp in 190, and on his order poisoned the king who had been deposed as King Hongnong.
Liu Bian and the Empress Dowager He did not have any outstanding deeds apart from this achievement, let alone any clever strategies.
Dong Zhuo's early mastermind had always been Chang Shi Liu Ai, and a series of plans in Shangluo were all planned by this person. It was not until Dong Zhuo poisoned the young emperor and defiled the palace that Liu Ai, a member of the clan, switched sides and joined the ranks of Hanchen.
, and later experienced the Li Guo Rebellion, when Cao Cao took the emperor hostage, he stayed in the midst of it, living a comfortable life without showing off anything, and finally had a good death.
This is not simple. Looking at the Xiliang family, there is only one Jia Xu who can compare with him.
Liu Xiang did not catch him in Jizhou, nor did he meet him in Liangzhou. Liu Ai was always stationing troops in An'an, guarding the retreat of Dong Zhuo's army, which was a pity.