Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 559 Too Magical World

It was late at night, and the candlelight in Chuzhou Governor's Mansion was still flickering.

It's a bit strange to say that Zhang Zhao attaches great importance to cavalry, and there is also a style of cavalry in Liangzhou, Hexi. Liangzhou Dama has always been one of the best cavalry in the world.

But since Zhang Zhao's battle against Anxi, the cavalry under Yongliang's army had never fought any long-distance raids.

Basically, they are very disciplined cavalry to cover the large corps. After encountering the enemy, the combination of infantry and cavalry will destroy the enemy.

The only time that can be called a long-distance raid was the time when Ma Shacai rushed to Lanzhou from Liangzhou for five hundred miles.

Therefore, on this night, under the watchful eyes of the generals, Ma Shacai proudly shared his experience of raiding Lanzhou.

But soon, everyone, including Ma Shacai himself, gradually felt that his experience could not be used here.

The raid was made because of the horse killing, but it was a difficult raid that crossed Hongchi Ridge in winter and went through untold hardships, with more than one-third of the laggards.

But this time, after looking around, Li Cunhui found that although it was almost [-] miles from Chuzhou to Yangzhou, the road was so easy!
From Chuzhou to Yangzhou, the main traffic artery is the Grand Canal-Hangou built during the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Because it was a canal built artificially, the Hangou was built straight.

In addition, it is the main means of transportation, so the two sides of the canal are extremely prosperous. The court of the Southern Tang Dynasty also built a galley on both sides of the canal that can accommodate three carriages.

What's more, the road is still maintained by people, and the road condition is very good.

Zhang Zhao personally went out and ran for more than ten miles, and found that the smoothness of this road, not to mention catching up with the cement roads of later generations, but in Ah Sanguo, I am afraid it can be called an express road.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao felt depressed for Li Jing for a while, this is the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms!

You have built such a straight, wide and flat road, and even inserted into your heart from the border, you are insane!

It's almost like telling others, come and hit me from this road, very quickly!It will knock me down soon.

No wonder in history Guo Rong sent the general Han Lingkun to attack Yangzhou. Han Lingkun had already entered the city, but the officials and people in the Southern Tang Dynasty didn't know about it.

Because it was too magical, Zhang Zhao even thought for a while, was there any fraud in it?

But a group of generals discussed with him for half a night in Chuzhou Governor's Mansion, and finally everyone came to the conclusion that there must be no fraud. The raid on Yangzhou was as simple as that, and the Southern Tang Dynasty was so easy to fight!

All right!That being the case, Zhang Zhao is not polite anymore, he looked around and looked at the new generation of Murong Nobunaga, Li Cunhui, Gao Huaide, and Hu Guang.

The older generation like Bai Congxin, Ma Shacai, Qiong Re Duojin, Huang Yingda, and Yao Yuanfu.

Of course, there are more pink young people like Zhao Yanjin, Zhao Kuangyin, Wang Shenqi, Hou Renbao, and Feng Jiye.

"How is the mobilization of the elite cavalry going?" Zhang Zhao asked.

Zhao Pu, who was in charge of the Wang Yi Division, hurried forward and replied: "The officers and soldiers are all very excited when they hear about the big mission. Each person is worth five pennies for the selection of the front. It has also been cleared to the flag (team)."

Worth five pennies is not five pennies, but a 'consumer voucher' worth five pennies, which is much better than giving money directly, it can save money and promote consumption.

Of course, the most important thing is the rank official's index. In Zhang Zhou, everyone who licks blood at the edge of a knife knows the benefits of rank official.

And now the rewards of senior officials are not given to everyone who wins the battle, there are targets for this.

What exactly is it?How many victories have been obtained?The difficulty of the battle formation has been quantified in detail.

To be more specific, everyone has merit in winning the battle, but not everyone can reward rank officials. The number of rank officials was roughly limited before the war.

If you want to be an official, you have to work harder than others, because there are only so many, and if you are too low in the ranking, you will be gone before your turn.

However, in Zhang Zhou's army, not only victories, but also defeats can also reward rank officials.

For example, those who break the rear, those who stick to the isolated city, buy time for the main force to defeat the crowd, even if they are defeated, they still have rank officials rewards, and the rewards are often very high.

well!Zhang Shengren couldn't afford Daqin's national military meritorious service, so he set up a miniature version of a military official to let the brave men of the world fight for him.

It's just that, for this raid on Yangzhou, 5000 people were given to only [-] rank officials, which is a bit small.

But this was precisely calculated by Wang Yisi, the Ministry of War, and the Privy Council. The attack on Yangzhou was only worth it.

But Zhang Zhao was still a little uneasy in his heart. The 5000 people were his lifeblood, and he must not cause any trouble because of the lack of morale of the soldiers.

"Add a little more, Wu En will add [-] ranks, so that the soldiers can do a better job. If you can defeat the main force of Southern Wu in the south of Yangzhou, add another [-]!"

Although the number of military officials is basically fixed before the war, but Zhang Zhao is the emperor, he can use gifts to increase.

While Zhao Pu took the order, he thought of the cheers of the grassroots officers and soldiers below, and couldn't help secretly giving the emperor 24 likes.

Since the end of the dynasty, many emperors have been thinking about how to let his favor reach the soldiers beyond the Jiedushi, and how to let the soldiers know that they can't live a good life by relying on the emperor, but on the emperor.

Now this problem was solved by Enjia, a military official of Shaotianzi.

The most important meaning of enga is that kindness comes from above. This not only allows grassroots officers and soldiers to know where the kindness comes from, but also invisibly reduces the intensity of Jiedushi's kindness to soldiers.

After all, no matter how much money you give, how can you be like a military officer who has money for a lifetime, and his children and grandchildren are guaranteed (you can enter the civil and military officer school), and you don’t kneel when you see an official. What about?

Zhang Zhao is indeed thinking about this, and he also clearly knows that his descendants are likely to turn military officials into a hard-hit area of ​​corruption.

But he can't control that much, let's set up the rules of this country first.

Zhang Zhao was even thinking about whether to get out the official position of the inspection department, which started with Zhuangzong in the later Tang Dynasty, but spread all over the world in the Ming Dynasty.

After retiring a considerable number of military officials, arrange them to go to various places.

Go to be a small overlord in the countryside, catch robbers, fight smugglers, and train rural soldiers, especially to suppress places like Anxi, Hezhong, Lingnan, Annan, and North Korea.

However, Zhang Shengren is still a little hesitant at the moment. Although the little bully is small, he is no worse than civil servants when he likes the common people, so he must be cautious.

With a lot of thoughts, Zhang Zhao quickly made a decision, taking Bai Congxin as the rear army capital to command the army, and commanding five thousand cavalry as backup.

With Murong Nobunaga as the former army's deployment, Li Cunhui as the vanguard officer, Ma Shacai and Yao Yuanfu as the deputy vanguards, they set off at three o'clock in the morning the next day and went straight to Yangzhou.

The reason for the rush is because since there is such a thing as running along the river, it means that the speed of spreading news is also very fast.

I'm afraid that the news of Chuzhou's destruction has already begun to spread southward.

. . . .

On this day when the army was preparing to launch a surprise attack, Zhang Zhao had to do another thing, which was to deal with the issue of the Southern Tang military field in Chuzhou.

The common people in troubled times really don't have high expectations. Zhang Zhaozhi's announcement to abolish the tyranny of Bozheng and Juntian won their great support.

As for the military fields left over, even if some people's fields have been occupied for less than ten years, no one dares to ask for them. As long as the government does not come to harm them, they will be satisfied.

And Zhang Zhao's rough report also shocked him a lot. In the four counties of Chuzhou alone, the military farmland has reached a terrifying data of more than [-] mu.

You must know that in later generations, Huai'an City, where Chuzhou is located, had arable land area of ​​just over 1 million mu. In this era, it may be around [-] million mu at most, and it may not be there yet.

This means that the military fields in the Southern Tang Dynasty should account for half of the cultivated land in Chuzhou, and it may even be higher.

How to deal with so much land?Return part to the people?Or is it used to reward military exploits?Or simply as Huangzhuang?
How to maximize its effectiveness is a very particular matter.

　I'm on a business trip again, tomorrow's update may be later

　　
　
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