Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 172 One Hundred Thousand Bears Like the Tide ([-])
"My concubine wishes the king Zoukai to return." In the palace of Lingwu County, Zhe Fangai put Shao Shude in the bright red military uniform with her own hands.

"I owe a lot to my lady." Shao Shude grabbed her hand and said.

Zhe Fangai glared at him angrily.Some things, either don't start, or start more than once.I clearly agreed to only this one time, how come later, and...

Last night, he even wanted to let the little girl from Yeli's family sleep with him, but Yeli Lingji seemed to be pregnant and vomited badly, so he gave up.

"Bring my son here."

The mansion is full of maids from the Zhe family, and soon someone hugged them.

The son is fast asleep.Shao Shude took it lightly, looked at it with a smile for a long time, and then handed it to his mother, saying: "Sleep peacefully, my son, and watch grandpa go fight for you."

Zhefang Ai chuckled, looked at Shao Shude charmingly, and said in her heart: The woman from the Tuoba family that Lang Jun hid outside, maybe let him taste some sweetness next time, but she is not allowed to bring it home.

It was also the first time that Shao Shude saw his wife so charming on a serious occasion.Zhe Fangai has always appeared in front of everyone in the mansion with a mature, courteous, majestic image. As for the soft side such as begging for mercy and drooling, she has only been revealed in front of herself.Well, last time I didn't hide Miao'e, I should have seen it too, no wonder my beloved wife was so angry.

After bidding farewell to his wife and children, Shao Shude went directly to the Tielin army camp under the escort of his own soldiers.

This expedition should go to Yanzhou first, then to Danzhou, stationed at the border, to investigate intelligence, and then go south to Guanzhong.

On August [-]th, more than [-] Jinglue troops went ahead, escorting a large amount of grain, grass, and equipment.

Yesterday, the left wing of the Yi Cong Army and some auxiliary soldiers went again, also escorting a large amount of supplies.

Today is the second day of September, and the Iron Forest Army and Iron Cavalry Army will also march southward in a large scale.Tomorrow, the right wing of the volunteer army and some auxiliary soldiers will set off with the last batch of grain, grass and supplies.

The [-] army, known as [-], was divided into four divisions, and they traveled to Yanzhou with a one-day interval.

The marching speed of the army was not fast. On the fifth day of September, Shao Shude arrived at Wuyan City, and on the fifteenth day, he arrived at Ningshuo County, Xiazhou.

Changze and Ningshuo counties have reclaimed a lot of land this year. The former is mainly military farms, while the latter is the land of sergeants, both of which were moved from Suizhou.

The Lu River Basin at the junction of the two counties originally had a lot of land, but after conquering Lingzhou, it seemed difficult to attract people to cultivate it.Therefore, the follow-up work of opening the river has completely stalled, and the land that has been reclaimed will be left to the two counties to digest slowly.Even if most of the population captured from Guanzhong is sent to Lingzhou, the rest of the states will get some of it, it's just a ratio.

Tuoba Dangxiang and his loyal tribal herdsmen in Kaihe couldn't breathe a sigh of relief, because they were about to be sent to dig coal.Shao Shude told them that after two more years of digging, their sins would be pardoned, and then they would be registered as householders and given land.People have to look forward to it, because the work efficiency is too low.

And when it comes to coal, it has already started to be used in the military.

When the Yamen were stationed near Xiazhou, the army no longer went out to cut firewood, but used charcoal to boil water for cooking.The auxiliary soldiers are used to this kind of fuel, and even find it quite useful.

After the official donation of waste firewood next year, the welfare firewood distributed to officials will also be changed to coal to further reduce the demand for firewood.As for what the common people use, there is no hard requirement.However, as far as the citizens living in the city are concerned, charcoal has great firepower and is cheap. If it is used for a long time, it is still cost-effective, and the cost of living will be greatly reduced.

These city people were originally the main customers of the woodcutters in the countryside. Now that they are no longer needed, the woodcutters will lose their jobs in large numbers.Uh, if you lose your job, no one should rebel because of it, right?
But Marshal Shao also tried to find jobs for them.It seems a bit extravagant to directly use coal to boil water for cooking.Recently, Dashuai plans to build a coal washing plant, and coal dust will be deposited in the sewage after washing the coal.After the coal powder is dried, it can be mixed with yellow mud to make honeycomb coal.

In Shao Dashuai’s childhood memory in his previous life, there were briquettes and coal stoves, which didn’t have any technical requirements and the cost was very low.A large number of woodcutters were recruited to make briquettes and sell them to the residents of the town for profit to solve their living problems.

I just don't know how efficient hand-made is, and coal stoves don't seem to be popular nowadays, so it's hard to say whether there is such a market demand.

Do you want to promote yourself vigorously?Well, if it needs to be like this, he will do it. It will be difficult for six states, but it can't afford to cut down trees.Someone in Shao still remembers that when the later Qing Dynasty conquered Xinjiang and fought against the enemy for several months, they cut down all the nearby Populus euphratica forests that had grown for thousands of years.

The army camped and collected firewood every day, and the efficiency of tree cutting was frightening.The south can withstand construction, but the northwest can't!
When he was in Ningshuo County, there was an urgent letter from the watchman, saying that Wang Chongrong had counted ten crimes committed by Tian Lingzi and wanted to punish him.Tian Lingzi issued an order to the towns in Guanzhong, and got the response of Li Changfu, the commander of Fengxiang Festival, Zhu Mei, the commander of Binning Festival, and Cheng Zongchu, the commander of Jingyuan Festival, and the three sent their troops to Chang'an.

In fact, Shao Shude also received an imperial edict to send troops to attack Hezhong, but he threw him directly into the collection room.

This disorderly life also, do not follow the imperial edict!

Shuofang Festival Marshal Li Shao sent the imperial decree to Xiazhou, and after receiving Shao Shude's instructions, he continued to work on the affairs of the Lingzhou Metropolitan Academy.

Dongfang Kui of Fufang and Li Xiaochang of Danyan also sent envoys to Xiazhou. After some conversations, they refused to obey the edict.As for the Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army, they didn't come to ask for Huang Chao last time, so it's even more impossible this time.

In the nine towns in the northwest of Beijing, when the imperial edict arrived, only three families responded.There are fewer and fewer loyal ministers!

By the way, the great loyal minister Wang Chucun went back home.He was originally unwilling to move Zhenhezhong, but the court urged him repeatedly, but reluctantly agreed.As a result, when they arrived in Jinzhou, the city gates were closed, and they didn't recognize him at all, so they went back to Yiwu Army directly.Perhaps, this is also in line with his original intention.

Wang Chucun is actually quite loyal.When Huang Chao left Chang'an and fled to Henan, no one asked him to. He directly sent [-] troops from Hebei to continue chasing and suppressing Huang Chao. What he did was indeed a loyal minister.Shao also had a good impression of him, but it was a pity that he was too close to Zhu Wen in Xuanwu, and his son could not keep the family business after his death.

"The three towns of Fengxiang, Jingyuan, and Binning, it is impossible for the entire army to come out. The total number of people is 2. The three commanders, Cheng Zongchu is a loyal minister, Zhu Mei is hard to say, Li Changfu is also a villain." Shao Shude told the information Handed it over to Chen Cheng, the judge of the Tielin Army, and said: "The Shence army is unbearable. If you want to defeat Wang Chongrong, you can only rely on the [-] troops in the three towns. Wang Chongrong has [-] soldiers. I heard that he is also begging Li Keyong recently. Our Dingnan army has hundreds of thousands of people, how can they fight against it?"

"It's only difficult to set up a town, and a hundred thousand troops will be dispatched." Chen Cheng said.

Shao Shude laughed.Sending [-] troops, known as [-], is commonplace.

I don't know what the soldiers and horses of the three towns of Fengxiang, Binning, and Jingyuan will think after hearing that their "one hundred thousand army" has gone south. Are they so frightened that they retreated?

But it is easy to send troops, but it is not so simple to retreat.Fortunately, Fengxiang Town has a bit of economic strength, and the two towns of Binning and Jingyuan are poor, and the commander must have made a lot of promises before sending troops. Now you say you want to leave?There is no benefit to go?Don't you have to grab the emperor?
"Commander, if the situation is like this, it is better to change the route and go directly to Yanzhou, Fuzhou, and Fangzhou, and enter Guanzhong. If the soldiers and horses of the three towns go east to Tongzhou and fight the [-] troops in Hezhong, we will go directly south to Fuping. Cutting off the back road can also save the people in Guanzhong. The rioting soldiers will surely loot the prefectures and counties, and the lives of the people will be devastated. He forced the soldiers and horses of the three towns to retreat, and recruited the people by the way. The commander only needs to send people to the counties, saying that the soldiers and horses of Shatuo in the East River are about to come, and there will be no survivors after burning, killing and looting. The people are panicked, and they are definitely willing to leave." Chen Cheng said.

In fact, people have already gone north to Fufang to take refuge in succession.Even the knowledgeable one went directly to Xiazhou with his family.In Guanzhong, regardless of whether there will be a fight this time, there will be many disasters in the future.

You ask why?It's very simple, the emperor is like this, and the feudal town despises him, will he still be obedient?There may still be a few people who are obedient now, but in a few years?Since they are disobedient, they will attack and annex each other. Is there still a way for the people to survive?
The two years after driving away Huang Chao may be the last peaceful days in Guanzhong.Those who have this insight, of course want to go to a stable place.Fufang is close and relatively stable, and many people have gone there.But the six prefectures of Dingnan seem to be more stable, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, so since we have reached Fufang, if there is still some money to spend, it is better to continue north to Suizhou.

"Judge Chen is right." Shao Shude ordered Feng Yin to fetch the map, looked at it, and said, "Go to Yanzhou first, and then investigate the situation. Originally, someone asked Dongfang Kui to prepare food and grass, although it might not be useful, This time, let's see if this person is committing crimes with someone. If the food and grass are not prepared, he must be reprimanded."

Shao Dashuai held heavy soldiers in his hands, and his tone of voice was also different.Dongfang Kui was the envoy of the army, and Shao Dashuai said that he would reprimand him, and everyone took it for granted.

This weakness is really the original sin!
(End of this chapter)