In early December, the northern country was filled with ice and snow, and the entire Youzhou land seemed to be covered with a white blanket.
Zhao Xun led the three thousand personal guard camps and the three thousand Nufeng camp soldiers, drove a large number of horses and drove towards the capital Luoyang.
Zhao Xun needed to leave Xindu Prefecture, enter Jizhou Prefecture, then pass Wuyang Prefecture, Weizhou Prefecture, Yongzhou Prefecture, and then Dongzhou Prefecture, and Henan Prefecture to the capital Luoyang.
Because he said hello in advance, he was not blocked after entering Jizhou Prefecture. Otherwise, this mighty brigade would not even be allowed to the northernmost city of Jizhou Prefecture.
Because in the near future, Zhao Xun also clearly stated that he entered the dynasty, so the three tribes of Sumo, Liaodong Kingdom, Beihai tribes, and Khitan tribes all gave a large number of gifts, one was to give Zhao Xun to make an early New Year gift.
It was to give Zhao Xun to replace him and express his surrender to Emperor Dayan. This surrender naturally means surrendering to the Xiaoguo Army, but the Dayan Kingdom is still the immediate boss of the Xiaoguo Army.
More than 6,000 people and 50,000 war horses are really stretched for miles and are extraordinary. Fifty thousand war horses are nothing to the northern Huhu, and they are nothing to the current Xiaoguo Army. Even if you
Having millions of war horses does not mean that you can pull up millions of cavalry. The logistics supply required by cavalry is much greater than that of infantry. The Tang Dynasty had produced 300,000 war horses during the Chinese New Year, which was also the result of Li Jing's attack on the Turks in the north.
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The Xiaoguo Army has no other horse farms now, so there are quite a few gifts for entering the court, which is the scarce war horses in the Central Plains.
Zhao Xun mostly passed around the city and did not enter the city. It was not that he did not dare to enter the city, but that this large group of people entered the city and was difficult to resettle. In addition to purchasing supplies in each city, most of them were stationed outside the city.
After entering Jizhou Prefecture, Zhao Xun gave the commander of Jizhou Prefecture a thousand horses and the commander of Jizhou Feng Meng. They naturally accepted the war horses happily. The envoy of Jizhou Xuanfu and the governor of Jizhou Prefecture, the governor of Jizhou Prefecture, were all happy.
He received a thousand gold coins from Zhao Xun as a gift.
Zhao Xun also specially visited the Jizhou Governor Feng Meng, this former enemy he had never met.
One is over 40 years old, and the other is in his early twenties. The two of them sit together, which makes the person who is accompanying him sigh. He has made great achievements in his early twenties, and he has climbed more than others.
Gao. But these people cannot be dissatisfied. They are in a position of change and are confident that they are not as good as Zhao Xun.
Zhao Xun met Feng Meng with his younger generation, which made Feng Meng feel more moved and not embarrassed. Although Feng Meng was the governor of Jizhou, his position was still under Zhao Xun. The governor of Jizhou and the governor of Youzhou were not subordinate to each other.
But the champion general is the leader of all military officers and generals.
"Governor Zhao is indeed well-known. He has subdued the Hus in Youbei. He has the merits of the country and the people. Feng admires it!" After Feng Meng met Zhao Xun, he said with emotion.
"Governor Feng is acclaimed, it is all the merits of the soldiers, so Zhao Xun is just ashamed of it." Zhao Xun said with a smile.
"Haha... you don't need to be humble, you're in a different place. Han thought he couldn't do the same thing as you did. The Grand Governor's gift. Feng accepted it. The land of Jizhou, the way to travel back and forth, was always the Grand Governor's office.
Open." Feng Meng said in a deep voice.
Zhao Xun heard this and said happily: "Then thank you Governor!" Feng Meng said naturally, saying that no matter what he sent, the passage back from Jizhou would be left for Zhao Xun. Perhaps it was because of the last time Xiao was last time
Guo Jun's help saved him from losing his post and asking for guilt. Perhaps Zhao Xun's courtesy and gifts, in short, there will be no major problems in Jizhou. Of course, even if the governor of Jizhou wants to intercept him, Zhao Xun has a solution to it.
But it is naturally the best to be able to receive the care of the governor of Jizhou.
Feng Meng waved his hand and smiled, "You don't have to be polite. I'm for your people in Youzhou. By the way, Feng is going to celebrate this time, let's set off together."
"Extremely happy!" Zhao Xun said with a smile.
Perhaps it was Zhao Xun's gift that played a role. When a banquet was held, everyone began to get familiar with each other. Although they had been opposed before, they were also ordered. Now they are both ministers in the same palace, so naturally they will not hate each other.
Especially those officers of the government army were full of curiosity, admiration and a hint of envy for the Xiaoguo Army. As we all know, being an army and an official in the Xiaoguo Army is very worthy of yearning for.
Occupation. Even if you die in the battlefield, you can guarantee the whole family.
When he set out from Jizhou Prefecture, a team of thousands of people were added behind him. These more than a thousand people were not all Feng Meng's guards and entourages, but also the convoy of the Jizhou Xuanfu envoy. In addition, most of them were caravans in Jizhou Prefecture.
This time, following Zhao Xun, not only was the safety guaranteed, but some local governments were exempted from private taxes. Wherever the Flame Qilin Banner went, who dared to intercept and collect taxes? Not to mention that there were also the governor of Jizhou and the Jizhou Propaganda Envoy.
It's an adult.
At the end of each year, the prefecture chief officials who do nothing are required to enter the prefecture assembly. In addition to assessing their achievements, they are also to prevent local officials from becoming bigger and not following orders. Therefore, these officials must attend the prefecture.
Zhao Xun did not stop these merchants from accompanying him, so he asked them to stay with him. For this reason, Li Xinyan, who was with Zhao Xun, also received a lot of gifts. He gave gifts to Zhao Xun, but these merchants did not dare to give gifts to the wife of the Grand Governor.
Naturally, the pressure was much lower. Zhao Xun let the revived Li Xinyan accept these various gifts calmly. Originally, Su Ziyan also wanted to accompany her, but because she was pregnant, she stayed in the Grand Governor's Office
Cultivation. Su Ran is a lady from a noble family with a gentle temperament and does not want to cause trouble to Zhao Xun, so she did not follow him. This time, Li Xinyan is with her.
Seeing Li Xinyan running back and forth in the snow like an elf, Zhao Xun couldn't help but feel peaceful.
Not only that, the people from all over the country were watching from afar when Zhao Xun passed by. Watching the general who made great contributions in the north, regained lost territory for the country, reduced or even exempted taxes for the people.
Unlike the stable life in Youzhou, the people here are all dressed in their faces, full of overwork and bitter expressions. Even on the way, they saw many refugees and many frozen to death on the road.
The corpse on it.
Seeing this scene, not only Zhao Xun, but also Xiaoguojun, Han Meng and the officials of Jizhou, all had deep faces. When they heard that it was Zhao Xun's transit, these refugees who moved north surrounded him and came to pay their respects to Zhao Xun.
Li Xinyan had already jumped down from the horse and mingled with a large group of children under the escort of the inner guard.
Seeing the hope on these people's faces, Zhao Xun was also speechless. Seeing the corpses all over the ground and the eyes of those hopeful children, he threw away all his achievements.
"They are so pitiful. They are so cold and they are wearing so thin!" Li Xinyan looked at the dozen children beside her with red eyes and said in a stern voice. At the same time, she quickly asked her inner guard to put her fox fur cloak on them.
He also asked the guards around him to send their dry food to these children who were suffering.
"You are the patron saint of the people, General Zhao Xun?"
A little girl raised her head in front of Zhao Xun's horse and said.
"General, don't blame me. The child is ignorant. I'll apologize to the general!" Seeing Zhao Xun looking at the child silently, the mother who was still there hurriedly ran over, knelt in front of Zhao Xun's horse, and said in a trembling voice.
The clothes made him tremble all over his body.
Zhao Xun turned over and dismounted, and hurriedly said, "Get up, I didn't blame her!"
The little girl is a little black, a little thin, with black hair and a little scattered. There is almost no flesh on her face, which makes her eyes look big. She was originally pitch-black eyeballs, slightly yellow.
She was holding the small dry cake given by the guard in her hand, and she broke it half of it for her mother, while she was still biting it carefully, for fear that debris would fall. A pair of small hands, which were also thin, had cracks on her fingers that had not yet been healed, and it was red.
Red.
A pair of cloth shoes with cotton wool can even vaguely see the toes. They are dressed and pants covered with patches.
"Wei Dong, let someone buy food and winter clothes around you! I ordered merchants from all over the country to help these migrant people move to Youzhou, and all the fees will be settled in Youzhou." Zhao Xun said in a deep voice.
As he said that, he took off his cloak and put it on the child who was shaking all over.
"Haha...so warm...thank you, General!"
"Han Meng, camp! Zhao Mang immediately sent someone to patrol the surroundings for fifty miles and bring all the people over. You are one by three horses. By the way, bring dry food, I don't want to see the corpses all over the road!"
"Hu Xiang, please send someone to order Youzhou to take good measures to respond. I think there are still many people who will migrate to the north later to avoid any major chaos."
"It's weird, why are you moving in the middle of winter now?" Han Meng touched his head and muttered in confusion.
"That's because moving in winter will not be troubled by government officials everywhere." A powerful voice came from behind. Without looking back, Zhao Xun knew that the voice was the voice of Feng Meng, the governor of Jizhou.
"Oh... the people are the ones who really suffer!" Cheng Zifeng, the Jizhou Propaganda Envoy, said softly.
Zhao Xun turned around and said to Feng Meng: "Since that's the case, I want Governor Feng to help, so that these people can quickly pass through the border, enter Youzhou, and wait for proper resettlement."
Feng Meng nodded and said, "Don't worry, the Grand Governor is not as kind as the Grand Governor. These things are all I should have done. I will ask someone to gather these refugees and wait for Xiaoguo Army to send someone to take them."
"Then I would like to thank Governor Feng. The food and supplies consumed by the government army are responsible for supplying them. I hope that the government army will prevent them from starving to death or freezing to death on the road."
Feng Meng smiled bitterly and said, "Then I will thank the Grand Governor. Compared with the Grand Governor, I am so ashamed of myself! I am ashamed of myself, and I am ashamed of myself!"
As he said that, he shook his head and quickly asked the soldiers around him to pass the order.
Within fifty miles, the Nufeng Camp brought back two or three thousand refugees, gathered in the camp, put on the newly purchased winter clothes and ate food. These refugees had nothing else except thanking Zhao Xun for their kindness.
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Then he contacted the merchants from the surrounding cities and asked them to bring these refugees to Youzhou. The Xiaoguo Army gave them remuneration, which allowed them to resettle.
Subsequently, the Jizhou Prefecture Army also began to take action. The commanders of the prefectures took out old winter clothes and grain, gathered the refugees, and waited for the Xiaoguo Army to collect them.
Because they can exchange these old things for new ones, and get rewards for thousands of war horses, and also get the love of the people and the friendship between the Xiaoguo Army. Even the governor of the prefecture is still enthusiastic because they will get
Shining gold coins.
Perhaps because of the refugees, the entire team became much lower and no longer as lively as before. Then, the Pingyuan Prefecture, Xiangguo Prefecture, Wu'an Prefecture, Qizhou Prefecture, Wuyang Prefecture, Boling Prefecture, and Weizhou in Jizhou
The commander and governor of the prefecture joined the team one after another. In addition to expressing their gratitude to Zhao Xun, they also couldn't help but praise Zhao Xun's benevolence and righteousness. Only Youzhou and northern Jibei, only Youzhou's great governor came to the court to participate in the court gathering.
Maybe these officials are greedy for money and are greedy for power, but it does not mean that they are really heartless.
In addition, the governors and commanders also suggested to Zhao Xun that Huitong Money House would be opened to various prefectures. Even Feng Meng also suggested to Zhao Xun that Zhao Xun would be opened to Jizhou. Now, in the southern part of Jizhou,
A silver coin can be exchanged for one or two or three coins of silver. The governor and the captain promised Zhao Xun that it would not harm the interests and safety of Huitong Money House.
With the guarantees of these local governments, Zhao Xun naturally agreed happily, and then asked someone to send an order to let the money shop open to the various prefectures in Jizhou.