The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 304 Determining the Goal

Regardless of whether Liu Tai chooses Jingzhou or Xuzhou, at least Liu Tai himself does not have to continue sending troops south. For Wen Qiao and others, this is the most important thing.

With the official establishment of the Han Dynasty, it will inevitably be accompanied by an increasingly formal order. As the core of the entire Han Dynasty, Liu Tai, as the King of Han, naturally does not need to take risks anymore after completing the first step of the strategy.

So he accompanied Zhou Ping and Xi to join the army to reorganize the surrendered soldiers, but Wang Sang was still sent by Liu Tai to support Zhao An.

Because compared to mobile corps like Zhao An, Wang Sang's army is relatively better at fighting positional warfare.

At the same time, Wang Sang has always been responsible for stationing on the front line in Liu Tai's army, so this time he was stationed in Yuzhou.

Even if they can capture the Nanyang Basin, it doesn't matter if they are stationed in Jingzhou.

Wang Sang naturally has no objection to Liu Tai's arrangement. After all, he has been doing this job all his life and has rich experience.

Anyway, after arriving at the place, he comforted the local people and won them over. During the battle to defend the city, he shouted, "The other side is coming to steal your current land." These people were more desperate than their own soldiers.

Therefore, it is absolutely enough to let Wang Sang support Zhao An and consolidate Yuzhou. Liu Tai is not worried about the convenience of Yuzhou.

We even have to worry about what will happen if Wang Sang and Zhao An fight too fiercely and hit Jingzhou in one go.

After all, the talent reserve at hand is limited. If he cannot arrange enough grassroots personnel at the bottom, the power space lost under the jurisdiction of the court will be regained by the family.

If war, a physical revolution, cannot clean up its mess, the price it will have to pay in peacetime will be greater than the price it has to pay in war.

However, generally speaking, no matter how crazy these two people are, they have to stop when facing Xiangyang City.

Moreover, Liu Tai believed that Wang Dun had succeeded in his rebellion no matter what. He did not expect him to counterattack, but he should be able to defend Xiangyang City.

As for Liu Tai himself, he began to sort out the politics of Yanzhou, Yanzhou and Suizhou. Every place needed to be stationed with soldiers, and every county needed to appoint and remove officials. Those who passed the imperial examination at the beginning, it depends on whether they have the courage. Come here and be the county magistrate or magistrate here.

As for the so-called three-year inspection period, naturally because of the capture of new land, the evaluation period was shortened.

To a certain extent, this can be regarded as a dividend brought by a political group during its rising period.

Moreover, this is the area that Liu Tai just captured, and Zu Yue and Huan Xuan surrendered, so naturally a large part of the old forces of the family will be left behind.

This requires these guys who have passed the imperial examination system to carry it out.

Likewise, Gou Chun should stop wandering around in the north and come together to conduct a census of the local aristocratic families.

While he is still sitting here with his army, he will filter it carefully, and he will also lead his army to prepare for a massacre.

The aristocratic families here have not experienced their own butcher's knife like the aristocratic families in the north.

So they don't know what their bottom line is, and there will definitely be aristocratic families that jump up and down on the red line they have drawn.

Doing this kind of thing by yourself would be a loss of face. Naturally, you need Gou Chun to help you and admit your mistakes to these families who don't give you face, so that their whole family will stop being so blind in the next life.

It can be said that the successful subjugation of Li Juzu and Huan Xuan allowed him to avoid a head-on war with the refugee organization fleeing south, but he lost the baptism of war, which was the means to reasonably deprive the local wealthy families of their wealth.

If Liu Tai was leading the soldiers of the government army, then the soldiers would have rioted by now.

There is no way to control the soldiers under the military system. The soldiers are happy when they hear about the war. Because basically all cities are allowed to be plundered by soldiers after the war, so the morale of the soldiers is quite high, and they are very generous when fighting wars. Out of life.

But if the soldiers are not allowed to loot after the war is over, even a commander like Li Shimin, who is victorious in every battle, will need to spend his own money and food to appease the soldiers. As for other generals, they cannot tolerate the ferocity of the soldiers.

Just like Hou Junji plundered the Gaochang Kingdom. On the surface, it seemed that Hou Junji was lax in running the army, but in fact, any general in the Tang Dynasty who led his troops would only be able to defeat them. Afterwards, the capital of Gaochang was plundered.

And now Liu Tai's army is a soldier, instilled with Han ideas, which may not be much higher than other ideas of this era, but this allows them to be a little merciful to the Han people after they break the city.

Especially under the guidance of Liu Tai, they understood that poor Han people had little money and food, so if they wanted to rob, they would rob from the big families.

Yes, even if all Liu Tai could do in the end was to prevent them from attacking the poor people, they robbed the rich households in the city and became even more unscrupulous. This had to make Liu Tai lament their education. , it’s still not enough!

Finally, Liu Tai stayed in Xingyang for a full month and finally completed the reorganization of the refugee army.

More than half of the original army of more than 100,000 people wanted to return to their original hometown.

After all, most of them may not be doing well in their hometowns and can only be considered civilians.

Now that they have become one of the refugees, and now they finally have the opportunity to go back, how could they miss it so easily.

For this, they were divided according to the location of their hometowns. The road between Xingyang and Jijun was re-opened. Su Jun took the fleet's transportation personnel back and forth to Jijun, and then through the Yongji Canal to various places in Hebei. .

To be honest, the current land of Hebei is also full of people and few people. After they return, whether they cultivate fields or ask Cao Yi to move bricks, they can at least survive.

However, if you want to transport and transport so many people in a calm and orderly manner in a short period of time, you can only say that your grassroots system is still quite good. Otherwise, I am really afraid that they will suddenly lose their mind and want to rebel while walking. .

Those who are willing to stay are basically those who have mixed up in some industries or some acres in the process of being displaced over the years, and they also have their own connections and careers, all of which are in Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

Of course, there are also people who no longer have a home, so naturally it doesn’t matter whether they go back or not.

These people naturally become excellent grassroots members of the Fubing system, but not all of them are used. Instead, each Fubing organization has more or less half of the official Fubing who understand the operational system of the Fubing, and then let them Retired soldiers served as governors, and military history was arranged to correct these people's ideas and rules.

But such a team of government soldiers can already allow Liu Tai to safely arrange them at the grassroots level at the village level in various prefectures and counties in Yanzhou and Yuzhou. For any village, having such a group of retired soldiers who know how to fight is enough to tie the whole village together in times of war to deal with external threats. In peacetime, such a group of soldiers is Able to detect theft.

But the most important thing is that his orders can directly reach the soldiers and his influence can reach the grassroots level. This is what Liu Tai foresees.

Of course, the vast majority of the aristocratic families at this time have no feelings about the imperial soldiers and military history arranged by Liu Tai. Now they are just doing their own thing without harming humans and animals.

But as time goes by, when the candidates for the imperial examination come over, and they choose whether to be a dog for a local aristocratic family, or to train a local aristocratic family to become a dog, it depends on the ability of the candidates for the imperial examination.

Liu Tai knew very well that the local frictions experienced by Yuzhou and Yanzhou were definitely much more intense than those between northern families.

Because the northern aristocratic family fought all the way through, they couldn't say anything when it came to governing and asking for anything.

However, many aristocratic families in Yuzhou and Yanzhou came over directly. For Liu Tai, he had no reason to refuse. Naturally, there was no way to retain many remnants of the Jin court. There would definitely be bumps in the process of his governance.

However, Liu Tai could just let it go slowly. After all, no policy is ever perfect. It all requires a little polishing to create a policy that is acceptable to everyone and can be implemented.

"Your Majesty." Xi Jian approached Liu Tai, because as Yanzhou was gradually defeated, Xi Jian would become the governor of Yanzhou. Of course, this was partly because Xi Jian himself was from Yanzhou.

In times of non-war, many policies such as the three mutual laws and territorial avoidance will be implemented for the sake of political balance. But in times of war, the identity of Xi Jian's fellow countrymen is needed to stabilize the local situation. For the aristocratic family and the people, maintaining stability is more important than anything else at this time.

"What's the matter?" Liu Tai couldn't help but ask after hearing Xi Jian's words.

"Yanzhou is not suitable for digging canals, but it also needs a big project. Firstly, it will absorb the refugees and bandits, and secondly, it will lay the foundation for the development of Yanzhou!" Xi Jian faced Liu Tai and took the lead in putting forward his own proposal suggestions.

When Liu Tai heard Xi Jian's words, the corners of his mouth twitched.

To be honest, because I have always used post-war construction methods to absorb various war populations.

Rather than having to work hard to appease them, in Liu Tai's view, as long as the people are allowed to work and have income.

This in itself is the best comfort.

After all, the most vital time for anyone every month is almost the day when the salary is paid.

Therefore, Liu Tai's men also followed suit and started a big project for the people to work on. As long as they ensured good food, the people could basically move from chaos to order.

At this time, they are guided to cultivate fields or survive in other ways. This means that the people can always adapt well to the imperial court's plans for them.

In other words, this kind of work-for-relief itself completed the transformation from refugees to trusting Han people.

Therefore, it is easy for Xi Jian to govern Yanzhou now. He first throws out a similar policy to win the trust of the people of Yanzhou. When he implements policies that are beneficial to the people later, the people will trust the government instead of listening to the family with suspicion. say.

After all, moving bricks is the most training job.

"You want to build a road?!" Liu Tai looked thoughtfully at the plan sent by Xi Jian.

Xi Jian nodded and said, "I originally wanted to build a canal, but after thinking about it, I felt that there was no need to build a canal in Yanzhou.

Your Majesty, you want to build the Yongji Canal, which is to connect the base of the Bohai Bay, and I just need to upgrade the road transportation in Yanzhou to a higher level, so that it can transport grain more conveniently. It is enough. "

"Not bad!" Liu Tai nodded in approval after hearing Xi Jian's words and continued, "Let Su Jun arrange the ships to transport food to you. This place is not like the north. We have no suitable reason for these aristocratic families to spend money to repair the bridge. paving."

Although the gentry's money will not be returned in full in Yuzhou, and the common people's money will be divided into 30 and 70, this is not because the aristocratic families are noble, but because during the war, the people in Yuzhou and Yanzhou all belong to aristocratic families, so how can the common people get the money! ?

"Nothing!" Xi Jian shook his head and said, "It would be a good thing if they disperse the wealth early, but if they are slow to disperse the wealth and let Gou Chun come over, then they will just hold on to what they have in their hands, but they will be taken away from them. Life!"

"Whatever, just don't be beaten to death by Gou Chun when the time comes!" Liu Tai threw the policy back into Xi Jian's hands.

"Help me stabilize Yanzhou!" Liu Tai said solemnly to Xi Jian.

Xi Jian couldn't help but look solemn after hearing Liu Tai's words, and said to Liu Tai, "Is your Majesty determined?"

"Well!" Liu Tai nodded and said, "It's better to choose Xuzhou, it's time to deal with Gou Xi!"

Just when Liu Tai made his decision, the news that Li Ju, Zu Ti and Huan Xuan had surrendered to Liu Tai spread naturally. Gou Xi, who had just defeated Xu Gong, immediately clever.

Because Gou Xi didn't expect that Liu Tai would use this method to get rid of the commander-in-chief of the refugee army.

Gou Xi did not dare to delay too much and immediately led the army back to Xuzhou City and made preparations for defense.

Gou Xi knew very well that as he killed Xu Gong and captured the entire territory of Xuzhou, this restored a lot of morale to his soldiers.

As long as you give yourself time, the influence Liu Tai left on your own headquarters can be gradually eliminated.

After all, Gou Xi himself is a commander who is good at training the army, and he knows where the problem is. However, since his defeat to Liu Tai, he has been unable to solve Xu Gong, so the morale of the soldiers is somewhat low.

But now that he has made up for the psychological vulnerability of a soldier, the remaining psychological shadow of losing to Liu Tai can be slowly worn away as long as he trains hard.

And when it comes to winning a battle on the battlefield, your soldiers will be able to regain their original strength.

At that time, I will have the confidence to dominate the world again.

"Liu Tai, I want to beat you once, even once!" Gou Xi's eyes were firm and sharp, especially when she heard Liu Tai's army in Xingyang slowly coming towards her, this belief came to her. It became more intense.

(End of this chapter)