Chapter 148: Hesitant and ambitious

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I watched the game at four o'clock last night and slept until almost six o'clock in the afternoon before I got up. In the evening, I have to watch the semi-finals between the Netherlands and Argentina, and it is estimated that it will be completed and proofread at about ten o'clock tomorrow night.

In other words, I really don't know how to describe the game between Germany and Brazil last night, just like reading a YY competitive novel. ~ε›§~

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In the end, LΓΌ Zhe could only choose to rely on the terrain to carry out the first step of "city building planning", and build a pass-type fort in favor of favorable terrain.

South County is a mountainous and watery terrain, and many roads cannot go around the mountains and waterways, which has advantages and disadvantages for the defenders, but generally the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Stabilize Yiling and Jiangling in the early stage, and use the terrain of the two places to expand outward, Lu Zhe's idea is so simple.

Perhaps it should not be said that expansion, but now is far from the chaotic war era of the princes, and the word "recovery" should be used to say it.

Yineung was the starting point of the riots and the first place to restore calm, where the population either died or was moved to Gangneung.

The deserted tomb didn't take long to welcome guests again, it was some ragtered people, numbering about thirty people. As if they were looking for someone or something, they walked around and wailed: "Where is the garrison here?" ”

This is not the only group, there are more than a dozen groups of people who have come to Yiling, most of them are young adults and children, and the number of old people and women is relatively small.

Coming and going, walking and coming, I don't know how many groups moved over, and there were thousands of residents in Yiling under the convergence of people. They were talking about something, about the past of Yiling and the garrison, about the blood-stained battlefield and the defeat of the murderous Baiyue people.

Who are they? They are survivors of villages and towns that have been attacked by the Baiyue people. Their villages and towns were attacked by small tribes and routs. They knew from some of the defeated soldiers who had been captured again that there was still the Dao Yiling and the Qin army, and they came over to find refuge in their hearts.

Villages or towns with large populations or small Baiyue people who attacked were outnumbered and successfully defended against wave after wave of enemy forces, and although they had repeatedly succeeded in repelling invasions, they were also desperate for support.

Their successful defense relied not on the city wall or the army, but on the courage of the county commander (chief) and county lieutenant in the county. According to the number of people in each prefecture and the strength of the prefectural order, their defenses will be strong.

Although the First Emperor has not yet ordered the collection of civilian weapons, it is not a garrison county or a transit place for materials. How many weapons will there be in the county? Even when they were armed, they were armed with hoes or clubs and the like.

It is not an exaggeration to use the word "longing" to describe the Qin people in most of the counties of Nanjun, even if they successfully defend against the invasion of the Baiyue people, they can be considered lucky, and the enemies who attack their location are few and not too many.

On the third day after the end of the Battle of Jiangling, LΓΌ Zhe finally ordered the reorganization of the army, and this time he did far more boldly than the last time, appointing 36 new military marquis and 387 hundred generals, and the rest such as Tun Chang, Shi Chang, and Wu Chang were even more numerous.

Lu Zhe was even more bold, his authority to appoint officers below the military marquis was appropriate, but this time he actually appointed a captain. It's not just about being bold. He should be described as bold.

The political system of the Qin State was very strict, and the magistrates were above the county level, and the five hundred lords in the army were above the rank of five hundred, and as long as they exceeded this level, they had to be appointed by the emperor himself. There are times when the situation in the military is exceptional. The commander of the army can appoint officers below the rank of military marquis first, and they will generally be posthumously recognized afterwards, but the civilian system has no room for negotiation and needs to be appointed by the center.

When Lu Zhe appointed the lieutenant, almost everyone present who heard it was stunned.

Ji Bu, Mei Kai, and Gong Lieutenant, who were promoted to lieutenants, were not ecstatic. Instead, his face turned blue with fright.

What are you kidding? It's very good to be a school captain, but now is not the era of the "Grass King", it is the era when the rule of Great Qin has not yet collapsed. Directly bypassing the center and appointing the captain privately, it is almost tantamount to rebellion, and Lu Zhe dares to appoint them, and he doesn't dare to be the captain!

"Expedient!" Secretly wiping a cold sweat, Lu Zhe's initial temptation ended in failure, "We have 50,000 troops in the whole group, and there will be no more military posts when we reach the rank of military marquis, there will be endless disasters if there is a big fault, this is just an expedient measure." ”

The people present, even if they didn't have any loyal lieutenants to the Qin State, they were all thinking: "The chain of command fault is endless? The Lord will do this to be truly doomed. ”

"A different name?" Lu Zhe used a playful smile to cover up the embarrassment just now, "If you don't call the captain, we can call it ......" was half stuck, "Call it ......", and scolded in his heart: "Do you want to call the colonel?" That's the funny! ”

All the officers present looked at their own generals in a daze, they didn't understand where Lu Zhe got the courage, but a temporary commander was so bold, and the situation was urgent to reorganize the people of the six countries, it was really unforgiving. It's appropriate to appoint officers below the rank of marquis, but they have the audacity to appoint captains!?

"Then we'll call it the Commander!" Lu Zhe was stuck for a long time and finally came up with a suitable name, he looked at his comrades: "Just the commander, which means 'commander and leader'." What do you think? ”

The commander will not appear until the Southern Song Dynasty, and the number of people he leads is probably a brigade of the modern army, and it seems quite appropriate for Lu Zhe to use this title instead of the captain, after all, although the troops led by the captain are not as many as a brigade, they are not much different.

They looked at each other as they listened, and secretly thought: "The harm of the chain of command fault is indeed very great, and changing the name is a temporary 'miscellaneous' official position, just wait for it to be canceled later?" One by one, they didn't speak, and they recognized it with a silent attitude.

Lu Zhe made a decision: "Well, since everyone agrees, then it is not the captain but the commander!" ”

"Huh?" What does everyone agree on, if the center investigates it in the future, none of them will be able to escape. They instantly felt like they were being pulled on their backs!

"The commander is divided into left, center, and right associations! Ji Bu was the commander of the Left Association, and the headquarters allocated 5,000 spearmen, 1,000 spearmen, 5,000 Tengdun short spearmen, and 1,000 archers, mainly responsible for supporting the rest of the counties, villages, and li in Nanjun. Mei Kai is the commander of the Right Association. Mainly responsible for the formation and training of crossbow soldiers. The co-lieutenant was the commander of the Central Association, and was mainly responsible for restraining the auxiliary units and supervising the prisoners of war. Lu Zhe grinned with his teeth, ignoring the wry smile on his face, the three newly baked commanders, and looked at the rest of the officers with strange faces: "Among you, you are also divided into soldiers, waiting for my orders, ready to attack at any time." ”

It's time to try to bring the entire southern county under control, and it is too much to rely on the current 200,000 or so people to do anything. The population of Nanjun is relatively small compared to that of the counties in the Central Plains, but there are more than one million people, who can be labor or soldiers. Besides, there can't just be an army, there must always be a mouth, right?

Lu Zhe has already obtained the household registration of the entire Nanjun, and he also has the map of mountains and rivers, and he has even obtained the big seal and tiger talisman of the chief and deputy commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

The population of South County will definitely lose some in the turmoil, but it has only been less than a month now, and even if there is, the loss will not be very heavy. These people Lu Zhe will not let them go, he says that he will bring them under his rule.

Not to mention the map of mountains and rivers, although the current picture is very rough, but at least there are mountains, waterways, counties, and villages...... Accurate to the inside and pavilion. Even minerals are marked.

If Lu Zhe is not mistaken, the so-called Nanjun is actually modern Hubei, then there is absolutely no shortage of mineral resources here!

Although I don't know what the name of the modern prefecture of Ludo is now, I can identify it by the landmarks of the mountains and rivers. Lu Zhe still found a lot of iron ore production areas, copper mines and even gold and silver mines.

Minerals of iron and copper were the most important in this era, while precious metals such as gold and silver were less important.

Iron is one of the most important ores for making weapons, and even now there are many shortcomings in iron-making technology, such as brittleness, crushing, cracking, and other impure forging. But if the weapon can't be made, can't it be used as a reinforcement tool? In addition, iron is not made into long strips, and it can also be used to make iron plates and the like to make plate armor.

Not to mention copper, the current bronze technique has developed to the peak, and as long as there is a copper mine, there will be a steady stream of weapons being manufactured. At that time, there were options for both weapons and armor, not to mention that copper is now "money".

The so-called "gold" does not mean that it is gold, but a "copper". Gold is a precious metal now, yes, but it is more used as decoration, to create jewelry or utensils, some to highlight the noble clothes will be decorated with gold wire, only a very small number of powerful people will use gold this is not in circulation "currency", the main currency of the people is copper half taels. Silver is not a form of money now, it is now only something like making jewelry or making plates, and a piece of silver that has not been made into jewelry and utensils is worth less than copper.

In addition to precious metals, Lu Zhe vaguely remembered that there were not only these minerals in Hubei, but also limestone, clay, rock salt and the like? And it seems that there is also a lot of coal.

Clay is also marked on the map of mountains and rivers, after all, it is the main material for making porcelain, and the government attaches great importance to it. Rock salt is naturally also a kind of strategic material, and of course it will be recorded, but it does not belong to the government, but to the local gentry. As for the limestone that Lu Zhe needed the most, no one knew what it was and what it was used for in these years, and there was no record at all.

Lu Zhe walked to the side of the mountains and rivers that were hung up extensively, and pointed to several places with a wooden stick like a whip in his right hand, "Ji Bu, your first task is here, here, and there," the points are the three points on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, if I remember correctly, they are called Huangshi, Daye, and Ezhou in modern times, and now they have different names, some are simply small villages, "occupy ...... Oh, after the recovery, be sure to appease the local Qiantou, find the three elders there and ask to see if there are any minerals. ”

Ji Bu blinked and muttered in his heart, "Minerals? Is there a mineral near there? Stand up and take the order.

Before Lu Zhe finished speaking, he pointed out a few more places, "The one to the northwest of Yiling is called Badong...... Oh, now it's a wasteland. There is also Jingling in the east of Gangneung, and after you have cleaned up the above places, you will move here. After a pause, as if thinking about what to perfect, "You don't need to leave a garrison, just pounce on here......" The place where the wooden strip pointed was a plain. It was later called the Han River Plain, "where you set up camp and then waited for the follow-up troops." ”

Ji Bu was a little stunned, this first swept away the invading Baiyue tribe to the northwest to recover the villages and counties, and then turned to fight at least fifty miles back to the east, and the roundabout maneuver was at least eighty miles. He muttered in his heart, "The Lord will really look up to me......"

Lu Zhe didn't mean to joke at all, and the scouts who spilled out of the army reported the military situation one after another, and there were still many Baiyue tribes in Nanjun who were burning and looting, but the number of people in each unit was not too much, at most one or two thousand. He believed that Ji Bu's 12,000 troops were enough to clean up those Baiyue tribes.

Looking at a few military marquis, Lu Zhe nodded a few names, and then said: "Your headquarters each has a thousand troops, which are mainly responsible for taking over the area recovered by Ji Bu, and when you arrive at the place, you will set up camp to take care of the prisoners of war, and at the same time contact the local government or the three elders. ”

Yoshikan was a little puzzled: "The main general, have you contacted the government?" ”

Lu Zhe grinned: "Naturally, I told them that Nanjun was temporarily taken over by the general. ”

"Oh......" Yoshikane sat down slowly, thinking to himself, "Now the lord will be the supreme official of Nanjun, and there is nothing wrong with taking over Nanjun." ”

Lu Zhe named a few more military marquises. The tone was a little slow: "The rest of the counties are led by each of you, and I will write orders, and the administrators there will cooperate with you when they receive orders." Your mission is to garrison troops in the area and help the General issue a call order. ”

There is nothing difficult about garrisoning. It's just that recruiting young people doesn't seem to be what Lu Zhe can do, right? They were a little apprehensive, and they really couldn't understand what their boss was trying to do.

Lu Zhe didn't talk nonsense, he went back to the main seat directly, picked up the wooden coffin on the long case and spread it out. Then he wrote the order, and finally took out the seal of the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army and the administrative seal of the magistrate of Nanjun from his bosom and stamped it, so that the orders that conformed to the administrative regulations of Daqin were "legal".

It is the Great Seal of the Commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army. It's the Nanjun Administrative Seal again, and the people who can almost see what Lu Zhe is doing are a little dumbfounded, they are no longer in a nervous mood, it should be said that they are nervous and scared to death: "What are you doing, this is!" Why are the military seals and the civil seals in the hands of the main general? The Lord will write a command again and cover it, this, this, this...... What is it to do? ”

As if sensing that the tent was a little strangely quiet, Lu Zhe looked up and saw that they were all looking at him with a look of surprise. Stunned for a moment, he directly held up the big seal, "Knock-knock-knock-" and stamped them one by one very neatly, and said while covering: "What do you see?" The most important thing now is to restore the stability of Nam-gun, and if the center investigates it in the future, all the consequences will be borne by the future. ”

While looking at each other one after another, the officers from the Six Kingdoms were relieved after only a little hesitation, but the officers from the Qin State were extremely apprehensive and hesitant in their hearts.

"Do extraordinary things at extraordinary times...... Lu Zhe finally stamped his seal, "Besides, Ben Jiang has already sent someone to tell Xianyang urgently, as I have contributed to quelling the chaos and thwarting the invasion of Baiyue, Xianyang even has to deal with it...... If you want to stabilize the hard work of Nanjun, according to Qin's law, the general will only be dismissed and deknighted. It's amazing that the face has become a prisoner, what are you worried about? ”

They all agreed that Lu Zhe was either a noble and fearless hero or a great traitor, and it seemed that what kind of person Lu Zhe was really important to them.

There is no need to say a lot of words, it is still unknown whether the Qin State can maintain the rule of the south, and even if it can restore its rule, at least it will first sweep down the rebellion, and this process will not be very short, at least a year or two.

The Qin State needs to restore the rule of the southern counties, so there is no harm for Lu Zhe to gain a foothold in the southern county, only good for Xianyang, and when the time comes, Lu Zhe and his troops will be a deadly dagger hidden behind the Qin State.

With Lu Zhe leading the army in Nanjun, even if he didn't have the strength to attack the rebels behind him and just hold on, it would involve the strength and attention of the rebels. In this way, Xianyang will not only not investigate what Lu Zhe did in a short period of time, but will even greatly reward and win over.

If it weren't for the Great Seal of the Southern Expeditionary Army and the Administrative Seal of the Southern County, Lu Zhe would not have enough background to do that. But the military and administrative seals were in his hands, and he was not at all afraid that the officials of Nanjun would not listen to orders.

Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the army of the Qin State generally only recognized the tiger talisman ......, well, there is an incident in the middle where LΓΌ Buwei held the tiger talisman and Ying Zheng did not have the tiger talisman but successfully mobilized the army, which was the only case of the successful mobilization of the army with the seal of the king of Qin. Except for the current seal of the Son of Heaven, the Tiger Talisman is the only certificate that can mobilize the army.

Lu Zhe Tiger Fu is in hand, as long as the first emperor of Xianyang did not issue an edict to the garrisons in various places, and did not remove the political influence of the general Tiger Fu on Tu Sui. Then he can not only mobilize the Qin army in Nanjun according to the tiger talisman, but also the garrisons in the surrounding areas such as Hengshan County, Lujiang County, and Changsha County also have the right to transfer, and if necessary, he can even transfer the garrisons of Ba, Shu, and Hanzhong.

In terms of people's livelihood, with the administrative seal of Nanjun in hand, Lu Zhe can also draw young and strong people and grain and grass at will.

The Tiger Talisman and the Great Administrative Seal are a big killing weapon, at least until the First Emperor has no effect on these two things, mastering them is equivalent to controlling all the armies in the Old Chu Land, as well as the entire Nanjun!

"As soon as the reorganization is completed, the military operation will begin!" Lu Zhe was a little looking forward to Gu Zixiong, "The fortress plan will also be implemented." ”。 He walked back to the front of the map of mountains and rivers, raised his hand and pointed to the map, "All the ferries along the Yangtze River must be controlled!" Forts will also be built on the mountain roads of each mountain range, and these forts will only focus on guarding the entrances and exits of Yiling and Gangneung in the early stage. Pointing to the south of Gangneung, "There is a large wetland here, and the locals call it 'Yunmengze'." It occupies a very large area. ”

Yunmengze occupies almost one-seventh of the land of Nanjun, and in the true sense of the word, it is not considered a algae land, there are too many large and small lakes there. The reeds are even more vast.

Such a large wetland is actually full of wealth, not counting the plant production, there is enough aquatic products to feed hundreds of thousands of people, and the water is abundant. There are too many types of animals to count, and if you want to use them, you can have as many precious furs as you want.

"This ......" Mian Bi had led the army to fight near Yun Mengze before, and he stood up with some restraint, "Lord General." Yun Mengze is very dangerous, you can't ignore it. ”

"Dangerous?" Lu Zhe was a little surprised, "What danger?" ”

"There are a lot of dragons out there. Lakes and rivers are full of dragons! ”

The lieutenant next to him looked at the co-captain with some disdain and said, "It's a dragon, it's an extremely fierce beast." ”

It's a dragon and a dragon, Lu Zhe didn't know what he was talking about, he asked someone who knew to describe it, only to know what kind of dragon and what kind of dragon is a crocodile at all.

"Alligator? Estuarine crocodile? Fish-eating crocodile? Lu Zhe doesn't care what kind of crocodile it is, anyway, as long as it is an animal, it can't be killed, his eyes lit up when he heard that it was a crocodile, "Crocodile skin is the hardest and toughest kind of fur, so it can be hunted and killed to make armor!?" ”

Killing?! Those who heard the Lord's muttering, especially those who understood the ferocity of the crocodile, almost choked to death without swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

"That's right! Killing! Lu Zhe almost burst out laughing: "Find out the people who find out their living habits, and issue a bounty to hunt and kill the dragons!" ”

People die for money, birds die for food, as long as the price is right, people dare to do anything, let alone just hunt crocodiles!

"Crocodile, as long as there are enough crocodile skins, and we are about to occupy a number of mineral fields, then we will be able to raise our army and armed heavy infantry. As long as there are enough heavy infantry, it will not be a problem to sweep the south! Lu Zhe was very excited, and he just danced with his hands: "20,000 heavy infantry, plus enough crossbowmen and spearmen, whether it is against the traitors or the Baiyue people, we will easily defeat them." ”

In fact, there is no need for 20,000 heavy infantry, if you want to have 10,000 soldiers like Mo Daoman, and then with the rattan armor soldiers and axe throwers that have been included in the plan, about 50,000 troops will be enough to sweep Lingnan.

Lu Zhe thought to himself excitedly: "Nanjun still has a population of nearly one million, and it is no problem to recruit a hundred thousand. Find the talents who cure the gold and the experts who open the mines, and when the time comes, all the 150,000 troops armed to the teeth, what you want to do can't do! ”

It is not difficult to find the talent who governs gold, and the Qin State has a big city in Nanjun, which is called "Yuecheng", which was built in the era of Goujian, the king of Yue. The more difficult thing is the people who know how to open a mine, and the large amount of labor required to open a mine.

Lu Zhe straightened his fingers and whispered to himself: "At least 20,000 laborers are needed for the planning of the fortress, about 10,000 for the treatment of gold, and 80,000 for the cultivation of fields, and the mining ...... How can you say that it will take about 100,000 people? He unconsciously glanced at his subordinates who were sitting precariously and continued to murmur, "It takes at least 300,000 or so people to operate all of them, where can so many people do these things?" Is it necessary to force the requisition, but who will do the requisitioned farm work, and what will no one eat next year if no one does the farm work? ”

said that he was muttering to himself, but in the quiet military tent, Lu Zhe's voice would still be heard very clearly.

Those who heard Lu Zhe talking to himself, the gaze they looked at their main general became more and more strange.

If you can hear the voice of your heart, most people think in their hearts: "I really don't know how to describe it to keep up with such a main general, in addition to marching and fighting, I also understand the people's livelihood, what a monster." (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you very much for the valuable monthly pass of "c2256", an old book friend! Xie Lu Xie "3609433" rewarded enthusiastically again.

I watched the game at four o'clock last night and slept until almost six o'clock in the afternoon before I got up. In the evening, I have to watch the semi-finals between the Netherlands and Argentina, and it is estimated that it will be completed and proofread at about ten o'clock tomorrow night.

In other words, I really don't know how to describe the game between Germany and Brazil last night, just like reading a YY competitive novel. ~ε›§~