Full text, no ads, Chapter 12: Transfer Order from the Ministry of War
Entering November, the cold in Wuyuan County becomes even stronger, and the north wind sweeps across the Hetao Plain. Winter has arrived in Wuyuan County. The Yellow River has frozen, and the irrigation ditches are frozen solid. The earth has gone to sleep, and everything is desolate.
, at this time of year, the army and militia gradually enter a state of winter alert. In winter, the Yellow River freezes, and Huma can easily cross the Yellow River and enter the hinterland of Wuyuan County.
In September, a major change occurred in Wuyuan County. The military and political affairs were officially separated. Yang Yuanqing no longer served as the prefect of Wuyuan County and was only responsible for the army. The court sent a new civilian prefect.
The new governor of Wuyuan County, Yang Shidao, is the youngest son of King Guan Yang Xiong. He is less than thirty years old. He is knowledgeable and capable. He is a leader in the royal family. His elder brother Yang Gongren is appointed as the Minister of Civil Affairs and holds the power of personnel.
Yang Xiong had a very good relationship with the Guanlong nobles, and Yang Shidao often visited the homes of various Guanlong nobles. Gradually, he became Yang Guang's eyes and ears to monitor the Guanlong nobles, and gained Yang Guang's trust. This time Yang Shidao served as the prefect of Wuyuan County.
It also smacked of spying on Yang Yuanqing, which Yang Yuanqing knew very well.
Therefore, before Yang Shidao arrived, Yang Yuanqing adjusted the government and military affairs first. The government office was placed in Jiuyuan County, while the military office was moved to Dali County. In addition, the Fengzhou City Supervisor was also moved to Dali County.
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He moved the general yamen to Dali City, where he started, and left three thousand troops to garrison Jiuyuan County, commanded by his confidant Ma Shao. In this way, in addition to directly deploying hundreds of yamen servants, Yang Shidao had to mobilize every soldier.
Through him Yang Yuanqing.
At this time, Dali County was very different from before. With the increasing population and increasingly prosperous commerce, Dali City underwent its third expansion two years ago. On the basis of the two city walls, a square was built on the outside.
The defensive city wall doubled the city area again, forming three city areas with an inner circle and an outer square, which could accommodate 100,000 residents.
After the new city was built, the commercial shops were moved to the outer city. The crescent-shaped open space between the two city walls was all designated as a military area, with military camps and military warehouses. There were 8,000 troops stationed in the entire Dali City, becoming the military base of the entire Wuyuan County.
The important town, Fengzhou Governor's Office also moved here from Jiuyuan County.
The area around Dali City is no longer the desolate land it once was, but has turned into an endless rose peach orchard, stretching for dozens of miles. Many powerful and visionary business families from the Central Plains have also come here to buy land and property and open up peach trees.
Planting and making wine to make money, Dali City became the base of rose apple planting in the entire Sui Dynasty, forming a rose apple garden about ten miles wide and thirty miles long.
To the east of the Pu Tao Garden is a large area of farmland, and to the east of the farmland are more than a dozen villages. People who grow apples and grains all live here. Unlike the mainland, every household here has horses, regardless of whether they are farming.
Or growing sweet apples, basically traveling on horseback. (Free download of full text e-book)
After several years of development, Dali County has become an important town in the north of Wuyuan County, with a population second only to Jiuyuan County. There are currently 70,000 residents in Dali City, most of whom make a living by making wine. Dali Rose Tao Wine sells well
In the north and south of the Sui Dynasty, it was even famous in the grasslands. It brought huge wealth to Wuyuan County every year, making Dali County a veritable wine city.
Early in the morning, Yang Wei rode his camel majestically to the general manager's office. Yang Wei was also half of Zhang Xutuo's apprentice. He had broken his arm in Qi County a few years ago, and Zhang Xutuo not only cured his
arms, and spent three months carefully training his martial arts.
Although his martial arts has been unable to break through, Zhang Xutuo still exploited his potential to the greatest extent. The most obvious thing is that his pair of eight-feng iron hammers increased from 80 kilograms to 120 kilograms. This is also his natural supernatural power.
, and at the same time, combined with his temperament, he designed a set of eighty-one hammering moves for him, which danced like a gust of wind sweeping fallen leaves, with desperate moves, which earned Yang Wei the nickname "Desperate Saburo".
Yang Wei is currently the second general of Ying Yang Mansion in Dali City, commanding a thousand soldiers. He is very popular in Fengzhou. From the generals to the soldiers, they all like to joke with him and call him Fat Sanlang affectionately.
It was his nickname since childhood, and he accepted it happily.
He turned over and got off the camel. A guard ran up to hold the camel for him, pointed at his hammer and said with a smile: "Fat Saburo, your hammer seems to be a little too small! Is your wife coming to visit your relatives?"
Yang Wei stretched out his leg and kicked it away, laughing and scolding: "Fuck you, why don't you take it out and compete?"
The guard chuckled and ran away with Luo Luo. Yang Wei adjusted the chainmail he was wearing and walked up the steps with a "Crash! Crash!"
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In the room, Yang Yuanqing was having a meeting with Deputy General Manager Yang Sien, Chief Shi Du Ruhui, and staff Huangfu Xu. After the separation of military and political affairs, Cui Junsu became the chief of the county government, and the general manager Shi was promoted to the post by Sima Du Ruhui, and Yang Yuanqing appointed Huangfu.
He was named the military envoy and was in charge of military farming.
These three people were his confidants and had followed him for many years. Yang Yuanqing worriedly said to them:
"I just received an order from the Ministry of War to mobilize troops, ordering our Fengzhou Army to send 10,000 troops to prepare for the Battle of Goryeo. Frankly speaking, I am not optimistic about the prospects of this battle. It is a battle that can be won with 30,000 to 50,000 troops.
, but the Holy One wants to raise an army that will overwhelm the country. I received a letter from home. My master, Zhang Xutuo, the Prime Minister of Qi County, sent his wife and daughter to my home for refuge. It is said that the situation in Qi County is very serious, with floods and floods happening one after another.
, there has been a rebellion among hungry people.”
Yang Yuanqing sighed and said to everyone: "I have an ominous premonition. This battle to attack Goryeo is likely to result in heavy casualties. Whether the Goryeo people fail or we fail, the casualties will not be low. Therefore, I will not
I plan to send the Fengzhou army to Liaodong to die, and I want to discuss it with everyone and come up with a safe excuse to escape this imperial troop deployment."
There was silence in the room. After a long while, Du Ruhui said: "Since the Ministry of War has issued an order to mobilize troops, it is definitely not possible to resist forcefully, and it is unrealistic to not send out a single soldier. I suggest sending out three thousand troops, at least to give an explanation to the Ministry of War."
Yang Sien frowned and said: "But the Ministry of War requested to send 10,000 troops, but we only sent 3,000 troops, which is a shortage of 7,000 people. How can we explain to the Ministry of War? There must be a reason."
Huangfu said with a smile: "The reason is easy to find, and it is actually true. Fengzhou is a border town, and it is to defend against barbarians in the grassland. According to the court's practice, there is usually one soldier for every six households, but we have one soldier for eight and a half households.
The military strength itself is insufficient. If the military strength is reduced by another 10,000, the defense will be greatly reduced and it will be easy for the barbarians to take advantage of the opportunity to invade. You can explain this situation to the court."
Du Ruhui added: "I suggest that the general manager talk to Governor Yang. I feel that although Governor Yang is from the royal family, he is very pragmatic and caring about people's livelihood. I think he is not willing to transfer the army and threaten Wuyuan County."
His father is the King of Guan, and his brother is the Minister of Civil Affairs. He can intercede with the court through his own connections, and then the general also uses the connections of the Pei family to accommodate the Ministry of War. In the end, maybe the Ministry of War can cancel this transfer order."
Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and sighed: "Actually, I'm not worried about the Ministry of War. I think this is the intention of the Holy One. The overwhelming troops are transferred to Liaodong, leaving the Central Plains empty, which highlights the heavy troops on the border, which is a bit foreign.
The army is light at home, so in order to balance the military strength, the Holy Emperor will also reduce the border troops accordingly. I heard that Fan Zigai, the general manager of Liangzhou, and Feng Xiaoci, the general manager of Daizhou, have also been mobilized."
As soon as Yang Yuanqing said this, Yang Sien slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "Let me tell you! How could someone suddenly rebel in Yanmen? It turns out that Feng Xiaoci is not willing to send troops."
"What's going on?" Several people looked at him together.
Yang Sien said quickly: "I have a subordinate who is from Yanmen County. He just received a letter from home today saying that Yanmen thief commander Wei Wentong gathered 3,000 people to rebel. General Manager Feng led his troops and fought fiercely with the thief, and the thief fled into the mountains.
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Everyone laughed. This rebellion was indeed timely. Yang Yuanqing said: "I guess Wei Wentong, the thief commander, has it for a long time and will use it at the critical moment."
Huangfu Xu smiled slightly and said: "In fact, we can also follow the example of Daizhou. For example, at this time, a certain grassland Hu tribe went south in large numbers and threatened Fengzhou. If they only threatened but did not fight, then the imperial court would not mobilize Fengzhou soldiers."
"But which prairie tribe would be so honest and obedient?" Yang Sien asked puzzledly.
Yang Yuanqing smiled meaningfully. Huangfu's plan coincided with his idea. He thought of Wutu, maybe Wutu could help him.
At this time, a soldier reported outside the door, "Report to the manager, General Yang Wei has arrived."
Yang Yuanqing nodded and said to everyone: "You guys sit down for a moment and I will come to talk to him."
Yang Yuanqing walked quickly to the lobby and saw Yang Wei standing at the door with a sad face. He walked up and asked with a smile: "I sent someone to call you a long time ago, why are you here now?"
Although Yang Wei and Yang Yuanqing were brothers, as Yang Yuanqing's authority grew stronger, no one dared to call him brother in front of him, not even Yang Wei. He hurriedly knelt down on one knee and saluted: "For this humble position, please see the manager!"
"Get up! It's a private matter to see you today, so feel free to do so."
Yang Wei stood up and scratched his head and said, "I had a bad stomach today. I just ran halfway and my stomach hurt again, so I had to run back again."
Seeing that he was interesting, Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "You look uncomfortable, why don't we go there again?"
"I already went there just now."
Yang Yuanqing burst into laughter, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Follow me!"
Yang Yuanqing took him to his office, closed the door, and the smile on his face disappeared.
"sit down!"
Yang Wei sat down a little uneasily. Seeing Yang Yuanqing's face turn serious, he felt that he had something important to say to him.
Yang Yuanqing was silent for a long time, then slowly said: "Do you still remember what you told me at the beginning of the year?"
Yang Wei nodded. At the beginning of the year, his father wrote a letter. The letter revealed that the Yang family had the intention to raise troops and asked him to return to Beijing. He told Yang Yuanqing about this, but Yang Yuanqing said nothing.
Yang Yuanqing thought for a moment and said to him: "I want you to go home. If possible, bring your father over. I want to have a good talk with him."