Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 184 Huayue Temple

"Mr. Pei, seeing that the matter is coming to an end, how busy are you with the immigration?" In the Weishui camp, Shao Shude asked after he had just finished working out his muscles and bones.

"Reporting to Commander-in-Chief, the Kanto immigration is still going on." Pei Tong said: "Henan is fighting endlessly. Many people flock to Shanguo and Hezhong with their families. Come higher."

"It doesn't matter, money is something outside of the body. It doesn't matter even if you don't make much money from selling horses, as long as someone is there." Shao Shude sat down and said: "Just clear the accounts."

"Marshal, there are more than a thousand relatives of sergeants from Kanto this year, and they should be the last batch. The rest, if they don't come, they won't come."

"Okay, my son Lang, taking the family over to celebrate the birthday, a big thing has been put down in my heart."

Pei Tong also heaved a sigh of relief.It is too difficult to find relatives of sergeants.Some people don't know where they live at all, but only know a certain county in a certain state. As for which township or village, sometimes they have to rely on their fellow villagers to remind them.In addition, these days, the common people moved and fled from time to time, and when they reached the land, they might not be able to find people, and the cost was extremely huge.

As for the horse guards who died of diseases and bandits in the middle, there were quite a few of them. After several years of accumulation, this pension is not a small amount.Now Dingnan Army's horse selling business is not so much to subsidize the military's shortage, but to find and transport people.

Shanguo, Hezhong, and Zhaoyi and Hebei are considered friendly forces, and Hedong is barely neutral. In the area of ​​Heyang, it is not a big deal to bribe the local generals. It will be sold for a few years just like this. Funds from a hundred war horses.If it is further away, what is the cost?I don't dare to think, and I don't have the ability.

The families of the sergeants who came from other towns were naturally arranged to go to Xiazhou.

But this matter has become more and more of Shao Shude's heart trouble now. The population of Xiazhou has skyrocketed. What should we do?
There are now more than 3 troops, and the sergeants have not completely moved their families to Xiazhou. After all, selling houses and fields in other places is not a matter of overnight.But as far as the original intentions of the sergeants are concerned, they are serving as Yamen soldiers in Xiazhou, so they definitely want to bring their family members over.Otherwise, when the superiors give leave, there will be no time to go home and meet the family.

In the foreseeable future, Xiazhou's population will continue to rise.This will not exceed the carrying capacity of the land, but what about in the future?Is it possible to learn from Xixia and move a large number of family members and bureaucratic organizations in the newly built ruling center in Huaiyuan County (Yinchuan)?It is indeed a good way. When it is impossible to go south to Guanzhong, the Yinchuan Plain can indeed feed a large number of people.Moreover, with the advantage of water transportation, money and food from various counties can be quickly collected to the political center. Even if there is an army of [-], hundreds of thousands of family members will not be a problem.

The development of Lingzhou is about to be accelerated!

"In addition to the relatives of the soldiers, more than [-] households from the people of Hebei, Henan, and Zhaoyi were also taken in." Pei Tong reported again.

Most of these Kanto Han people will be sent to Lingzhou, and a small part will be on the newly reclaimed land in Yuzhou.In the first half of the year, several tribes were defeated in Lingzhou, and [-] households and [-] people were registered as farming parties.Later, if you want to register as a householder of Qimin, you have to use soft methods.

After sending this batch of Kanto Han people over, plus the original local population, the population of Lingzhou's six counties and two cities should exceed [-].There are [-] people in one place, which is still pitifully small.

By the way, the [-] family members of shipbuilders and sailors collected are already on the way. Including the more than [-] families of craftsmen who were just sent away yesterday, the total population of the eight places in Lingzhou should exceed [-].

I just don’t know where the ordinary households in Guanzhong who took the road of Fufang went. There are more than [-] households, and the follow-up is still recruiting.They will first go to Xiazhou to provide relief with work for two or three months, and then go to Lingzhou to cultivate fields after the beginning of spring.

To put it bluntly, because of my arrival, the situation in Guanzhong is not so chaotic, and there will definitely not be too many people who are willing to leave, which is a pity.But I can't force them to use force, robbing artisans has already affected my reputation a little, but it is still within the acceptable range. If I wantonly "kidnapped" ordinary households to Lingzhou, it would be true. ruined.

For them, you can only coax and scare them.

I hope that before I leave Guanzhong, I can make up five or six thousand households, that will be very satisfying.

At that time, a scout came to report that there were more than two thousand cavalry in the east of Liyang. Looking at their attire, they were the three tribes of Shatuo and the five Hu cavalry in the north.

"Let's go, go to Huayue Temple." With the help of the soldiers, Shao Shude put on the military uniform, then got on his horse, and left the camp with the soldiers and two thousand cavalry from the Tielin Army.

Huayue Temple is the place for this meeting.

The temple is not big, but it has been well-known since the Kingdom of China. Cen Shen and Yuan Zhen both wrote poems.Shao was an arty person, and he asked Lu Siye to write it silently before, and read it several times.

The cavalry of the Tielin Army is led by Li Tangbin, who once served as a Youyi envoy in the Wuwei Army. They have been battle-hardened and are very elite.With them by his side, Shao Shude felt relieved.

Li Keyong came here on light cavalry despite the large army, he was not afraid, so what was he afraid of?
After arriving at the mountain gate of Huayue Temple all the way, Shao Shude stopped on his horse to enjoy it first, but he saw green pines and cypresses and withered vines around the gate. If he came here in summer, there should be a quiet path in the bamboo forest, flowers, birds, fish and insects, but it is a place. Nice summer getaway.

It's just that such a quiet place of the Brahma Gate is now occupied by a group of valiant warriors, which is a bit unpleasant.

"Who are you waiting for? Do you know what the King of Lingwu is doing in front of the mountain gate? Get out of the way!" Li Renfu, the deputy general of the personal army, stepped forward, pointed at the gate, and rebuked more than a dozen soldiers from Hedong.

Shao Shude watched from the side with no expression on his face.

Although the personal soldier looked respectful and obedient in front of him, Shao Shude was also a martial artist who came over, so he naturally knew what a martial artist was like.If there is a disagreement, there will be a big fight, let alone a soldier who has always been arrogant?
The Hedong sergeant guarding the mountain gate should be Li Keyong's own soldiers.It is said that Li "pro-army has tens of thousands of people, all of them are from the frontier".Looking at the attire of these people at this time, some of them looked no different from Han people, while others still looked like typical Hu people.After hearing Li Renfu's scolding, his face was a little hesitant, and he was about to explode, but he saw the Hezhong sergeant who was also waiting outside the mountain gate hurried forward to smooth things over.

"Shao Shuai is here, hurry up and inform Wang Shuai and Li Shuai." A man dressed as a scribe stepped forward and stopped between the soldiers of both sides, and said with a smile, "Wang Zhen, a member of the Shogunate in Hezhong, has seen King Lingwu."

Shao Shude nodded, and glanced at a group of Hedong sergeants.

There froze for a while, and then a general stepped forward, bowed and said: "Hedong Ya School Li Siyuan has seen King Lingwu."

Shao Shude looked at him for a while, then said softly: "General Li's duty is very good."

Li Siyuan was stunned, and looked up at Shao Shude, seeing his sincere expression, he said, "Thank King Lingwu for his praise."

He came from a very low family background, and served in the Zhenwu Army with Li Guochang when he was young, and later participated in the rebellion of the Datong Army.During the siege of several towns, he was lucky enough to survive and went north to the grassland, where he was adopted by Li Keyong as his adopted son.During the Shangyuan Post incident, he desperately defended Li Keyong out of trouble, and made great contributions. He is currently in charge of the personal soldiers, and his position is not high, but his importance is beyond doubt.

Feng Yin and Li Renfu also looked at this "comrade" with scrutiny, and Li Siyuan also looked back at the two of them, obviously they both knew the other's identity.

"Go in, don't keep the two commanders waiting." Shao Shude said.After that, he entered the mountain gate under the guard of a large group of personal soldiers.

Li Siyuan stared fixedly for a while at Shao who was yelling and hugging, feeling a little envious in his heart.

This kind of power cannot be possessed by the important minister Rong Shuai.

It is heard that the Dingnan Army fought north and south and repeatedly defeated stubborn enemies.The iron cavalry envoy Zhe Siyu broke the party in Hexi, and built a base to watch and praise his achievements; the Wuwei army envoy Lu Huaizhong took advantage of the wind and rain to attack at night, defeated the Shuofang army, and beheaded the capital general Kang Yuancheng.

The king of Lingwu County was even more remarkable. Li Tangbin was defeated in Sanyuan County, Zhu Wen was retreated from Tongzhou, the battle of Shengaoyi was heard in Guanzhong, and more than ten thousand generals Meng Kai were captured and killed.Afterwards, they conquered the grasslands in the north, entered Youzhou in the west, and subdued Hengshan Dangxiang.This time he went south to Chang'an, defeated the Fengxiang army in Weibei, and killed Li Changfu.

Li Siyuan secretly sighed.I have only been in the army for four or five years, and I know almost nothing except a burst of courage.After returning from Bianzhou, he was quite valued by my father, and he began to learn some skills of fighting against thousands of people on the battlefield.Speaking of it, this is enough to make my peers envious. There are many brave people in the world, but how many of them can learn the skills of battle formation?It can't be said that he was a dead man in battle until his death, and his blood was wasted in vain.

If you, Li Siyuan, can learn, you will have the opportunity to stand out, and it is unknown whether you will be famous in history in the future.He, Wang Siyuan, couldn't learn, so he couldn't get ahead. He died on the edge of the blade, buried in the weeds, and won't leave a name in history books, and even a few years later, few people will remember you.

The cruelty of the world can be seen.

But compared with Shuosai, a handsome man like Lingwu County King, the gap is far more than that!
The cavalry envoy, Zhe Siyu, was not a few years older than himself. He heard that a few years ago, he was only a talent in the capital, and he took hundreds of cavalry to join the King of Lingwu County.As a result, five years later, he has become an envoy of the cavalry army and has achieved great success.

When will I be able to compare with Zhe Siyu's generation?

(End of this chapter)