Chapter 22 Cooking without Rice
It was a happy night, and all the generals of Liaodong got the official positions they had in mind, and Yanbei also won the support and loyalty of the people. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Whether it is Zhen, Gao, Koji, Fu, and Zhang, who are higher-borns, or Sun Qing, Wang Dang, Zhang Leigong, Li Damu, Wu Shuang, Pan Ling, and other fighting men, people have got everything they want.
It's just that the matter of marching into Jizhou to crusade against Montenegro made Wang Dang, Sun Qing and others a little uninterested.
Sun Qing was pushed out by the Montenegrin generals at night, and told Yanbei about their thoughts through wine, but Yanbei summoned the four of them together and told them about the current situation of Zhen's death and the people of Jizhou, and more importantly, the benefits of crusading against Montenegro to Liaodong.
In fact, as early as when he decided to crusade against Montenegro, Yanbei planned to arrange the current official position for the four generals of Montenegro...... It would be too cruel to let them go with the army to fight against Montenegro.
Then, the wine feast was joyful.
In a county, there are too many problems that need to be faced, and there are too few people under Yanbei. It is impossible to put Liaodong on the right track in a short period of time, and all means can only wait for the Liaodong County Government Office and the county government offices in various places to be set up before they can truly dominate a county.
Before that, all ideas could only be flowers in the mirror, and it was difficult to implement.
On the second day after the celebration banquet, the entire Xiangping City came to life. The frustrated Liaodong County Government Office took away 137 literate soldiers from the Xiangping battalion, and began to enthrone the number of soldiers outside the city, and registered them in the register. At the same time, Li Damu and Wang Dang, two lieutenants of Liaodong, were sent to the commanders of the north and south of Liaodong to register the number of subordinate soldiers.
At the same time, Zhao Zhao posted a list outside the city, recruited people at the cost of one meal a day, and prepared to start construction of the Zhaoxian Hall in the countryside five miles west of Xiangping. For a time, the recruitment was gathered, and in just one morning, more than 200 people were gathered, led by the soldiers, to go to the outside of the city to cut wood.
Sun Qing led 50 registered soldiers to become his personal army, bid farewell to Yanbei and went to Wenxian County in central Liaodong, and took up his post with the mission of finding suitable land for the water village.
Tian Yu was not idle, and after completing the handover of the Xiangping Order with Sun Qing's subordinates in the county government, he sat in the empty county official office to check the past classics in the county. Although he had never been exposed to politics and knew that he was incompetent, he could not let himself go. All this stems from Yanbei's trust in him, of course, he was not idle in his own affairs, and sent several villagers who returned to Yanbei together to Yongnu and Lingzhi respectively, picking up his parents at home and informing Liu Bei, who had followed him in the past, about his current situation.
Although everything in Liaodong is grass-created, Yanbei has these people around him to help, and they have also set up a simple grass platform in Liaodong County. And he himself rushed to the arsenal and treasury in Xiangping City, counting the armor and armament and grain and grass baggage of Liaodong, as well as the most important ...... in the next two months. Monetary possessions.
The contents of the arsenal are easy to check, and those swords, spears, halberds, bows, crossbows, and arrows are all numerous, although there are many of them, with a hundred and ten people and a few chief officials from the county government, it is easy and easy, and it can be counted in two days at most; But the things in the treasury are not so easy to count, and the weight of grain and grass is good, those things can be weighed, but the money and possessions are not easy to calculate.
Because although there are many goods brought to Xiangping by Yanbei and his entourage, they are too messy.
Five baht is the easiest to calculate, but the value is not high, but there are many of them, and the large boxes of money are dazzling. The second most is the gold cake, a sufficient amount of gold cake can be exchanged for 10,000 dollars, but this thing needs to be carefully weighed because of age, wear and tear, and even the situation and price. Then there are more valuable antiques, such as chimes from the pre-Han dynasty and earlier frescoes attached to the walls...... There are even generals who don't know which lack of virtue who dug up the tombs of dignitaries and nobles, and the unicorn gold and gold five baht that were sacrificed, and even the jade clothes and copper tripods that accompanied the burial, in short, the total number of forests is countless.
Yan Bei looked at these things, secretly thinking about the value they could exchange in his heart, but he would also curse. These immoral goods under your hands are really stupid and cute, what is the use of you digging these things out of the graveyard? There is no circulation on the market at all, and it is unlucky to give it away...... This is probably the reason why these things were finally handed over to Xiangping Treasury.
For nearly ten years, except for Gao Lan, Lu Yi, and Zhang Jaw, the three people who led the training of the troops, as always, everyone else was entangled in these huge and complicated affairs, and was tortured to the bitterness.
The first thing to do is the household registration of the sergeants and the number of grain and grass stored.
In the entire Liaodong, there are a total of 16,000 soldiers. Among them, 13,500 were rebels from Yanbei, and the other more than 2,000 were county soldiers and thieves from more than a dozen cities in Liaodong, all of which are now registered. However, among the 13,500 soldiers, there were 2,700 wounded soldiers, and the wounded soldiers here refer to those who were unable to fight after being disabled, and they were registered in another set of household registers for the business plans that Yanbei was looking forward to in the future.
And now the grain stored in the whole territory of Liaodong has been transported to the large warehouse of Xiangping City due to the previous preparations, and the results are not optimistic.
Xiangping Dacang, only more than 40,000 stone grain and grass.
At first glance, this may seem like a lot, but it is indeed a lot, if five thousand soldiers can feed them for more than a year. But for the huge number of soldiers under Yan Bei's command, it is only enough to last for four months, which is enough to last until this year's harvest.
In other words, if they lead troops into Jizhou to fight in two months, if the new grain people do not pay enough taxes, their army in Jizhou is likely to run out of food.
It's no joke.
Because of the Jizhou rebellion, many soldiers have been uneasy, if it weren't for the rumors that the general is discussing with the state government about entering Jizhou to quell the chaos in two months, I am afraid that there would have been deserters now. If he goes out to fight in the future, he may face a shortage of food, and Yanbei will never dare to take the sergeants out to fight.
However, there was also good news that came back from Xianbei, and Chen Zhong brought back the news that Suli was in great need of an army, and was willing to borrow an army of 3,000 warriors from Yanbei at the cost of 3,000 horses.
It seems that since Yanbei left Xianbei, Suli's good days have come, first relying on Yanbei to leave a large number of pigs, cattle, sheep and horses to greatly enrich the tribe, and then in the spring of this year with troops to annex two adjacent small tribes, the tribe range expanded to three hundred miles of land along the Juma River, the tribal leader also increased more than 4,000 people, and attacked a tribe under the protection of Mika, and the warriors of the tribe also reached 4,000 horsemen.
In order to thank Yanbei for his gift, this time he sent 100 cattle, sheep and pigs, although some died on the way back, it was still a great help to Yanbei.
Yanbei immediately drew out 2,000 people, and there were no of his most elite warriors among these two thousand people, but by the Wuhuan Tu Servant Gu, who led him as the commander of the army, led 900 Wuhuan troops and 1,100 Han'er to the north to enter the Xianbei realm without worry, they carried standard leather armor and spears, as well as 300 strong crossbows and 500 light bows, Yanbei only gave Tu Servant Bone a mission...... Let's go to Sully's for dinner, and remember to come back on horseback in winter.
If there is a war, they will naturally contribute, but the Han army will never fight as the main force.
Yanbei wants to borrow Suli's tribe to raise soldiers, even if the sergeants may have a difficult time in Xianbei, but they can temporarily alleviate the shortage of grain and grass in Liaodong.
This is also the most embarrassing time for Liaodong County at present, and no county in the whole world relies on its own strength to support such a large number of soldiers. The standing strength of Hanjia County is only two to three thousand, and the inner county may even have only about 1,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest are all recruited in wartime; Even in Liangzhou, which is also a rebel army, most of them who are known as 100,000 Qiang horsemen are half-ploughing and half-pasting, and they will only put on armor and horses in wartime.
Only Liaodong, a land known as the bitter cold on the northeastern border of the empire, will have more than 10,000 professional warriors after having such a magical ruler as Yanbei. They are physically strong, they are proficient in combat skills, and they lick blood from the knife edge in the sea of corpses and bones, and walk out step by step with bloody footprints.
Their ability to survive is only related to destruction, and not to be associated with creation.
What is the use of them in this time when there is no war?
However, Yanbei must not disperse the soldiers and horses.
On the seventh day after Tu Fugu left, the heavy war preparations, money and wealth were calculated, which made Yanbei have a headache.
1,900 well-preserved crossbows, more than 5,000 iron spearheads and spearheads, tens of thousands of arrow clusters, more than 3,000 pieces of leather armor and hundreds of pairs of iron armor. These are not the source of Yanbei's sorrows, these things are naturally the more the merrier, but ...... But Liaodong actually had 8,000 war horses and 3,000 pack horses.
These monsters that can still eat grass are fighting more and more!
When entering Youzhou from Xianbei, Yanbei still had 7,000 riders and 2,000 pack horses. After two battles, whether it is a war horse or a pack horse, there should be some loss, right, why are there more and more of them?
If you want to blame, you can only blame Meng Yi and Gongsun Zhan for losing the battle...... Especially Meng Yi, it was like sending a baggage and a war horse to Xiangping.
If it weren't for the baggage that Meng Yi left behind after the defeat at Qingshi Bridge, I am afraid that Xiangping would still have less than 30,000 stone of grain now.
It's just that Yan Bei has never been so disgusted with the war horses under his hands once in his life.
He could not afford to feed him, and his food was only enough for his 16,000 soldiers and 5,000 war horses to eat until he had a great grain harvest, and if he added 3,000 war horses and 3,000 pack horses...... They will starve to death this fall.
"Tell Lu Yi and Gao Ran, leave a separate department to be stationed in Xiangping Camp...... The soldiers and horses of the two captains' departments and the two captains of the north and south sent out scouts to find the mountains and forests that were easy to hunt and camp on the banks of the Haihe River, or they went directly to the Wenxian garrison and relied on fishing and hunting to eat in the wild. Don't look for a place that is too remote, Xiangping still has to deliver grain and grass to them. In addition, I brought in Ma An, the general of the Luyi Army, who had been a merchant with me in the past. ”
"The caravan's business must be carried out as soon as possible."