Wei Ni

Chapter 76 New Army
In terms of governing the country alone, Xia Houhui, who is young and has little experience, is not the best in the Wei state.

For example, the emperor Cao Rui knew that among the princes in the temple, at least half of them were more far-sighted, more insightful, and better able to prevent problems before they happened than Xia Houhui.

These people can also think of the practice of cultivating military meritorious officials to check and balance the nine-rank official system.

But they never mentioned it.

Because of different positions and different demands, the interests are also different.

Some people are wise and don't want to be the target of public criticism, some people only seek self-interest, and some people are content with the status quo but just get along.
Therefore, Xia Houhui, who dared to mention it, seemed very different.

It also gave the emperor Cao Rui a sense of relief.

He was different from Xia Houhui at first, but because there were no successors in the royal family of Wei State, he wanted to train Xia Houhui, who had already shown his ability to plan military battles, to become a governor.

But now it seems that it seems that going out and entering the picture can make others make the best use of their talents.

Cao Rui, who was standing alone under the pillar, lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought with one hand sticking to his beard.

In the past, he just wanted Xia Houhui to be a lonely minister, and sometimes it was enough to speak out, but now he feels that cultivating Xia Houhui to be a vanguard in rectifying the government's ills should be more beneficial to the community and expand the monarchy.

After all, if Xia Houhui can be trained to be a pawn, he doesn't need to go into battle with his officials shirtless as he did when rectifying the accumulated abuses in the farmland, but can hide behind his back and watch the development of the situation quietly, and then make a final decision at the right time , Let your intentions be carried out smoothly.

And Xia Houhui is also willing to be the vanguard to benefit the community~
From the previous admonishment of the emperor Enke and the severe punishment of temples for bribery, and the promotion of reforms in the military merit system after imitating the Qin Dynasty, we can see that Xia Houhui has the courage to "rather be blamed by thousands of people"!

Of course, if he is positioned like this, he can't be allowed to spend too much time in Huainan, lest he lack qualifications in the temple and have little prestige to speak out about the ills of the court in the future.

Thinking of this, Emperor Cao Rui's eyes were a little blurred, recalling the way Emperor Wu Cao Cao trained Cao Zhen.

As the second generation clan of the Wei State, Cao Zhen was promoted very quickly in his early years.

After entering the tiger and leopard riding experience, he was appointed Marquis of Lingshouting just to pacify the bandits who gathered in Lingqiu; after that, he made a lot of contributions in the two-year battle of Hanzhong, and because Emperor Wen Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, he was promoted to General Zhenxi, During the holidays, the governor of Yongliang was involved in the military affairs.Although there is a suspicion of killing seedlings to encourage growth, he was quite competent in guarding Chang'an and dispatching troops to suppress the rebellion in Yongliang and returning to Luoyang to assist the emperor Cao Rui in stabilizing the government. Even if he insisted on attacking Shu before his death, it did not cause much damage to Wei damage.

Taking a step back, Cao Wei Sheji urgently needs to welcome another "Cao Zhen".

Not only out of the consideration of controlling the military power and stabilizing the country, but also because Cao Zhen could assist the emperor Cao Rui to carry out the reform of the scholars and rectify the accumulated abuses in the fields before he conquered Shu.

It will not let the emperor be forced to make compromises with the ministers, so that he can pilot the implementation of reform decrees.

Among the many clans and Qiao Pei Yuanxun's children, Xia Houhui seems to be the only one who can make the emperor feel that he can be comparable to Cao Zhen in the future.

As for Xia Houhui, he doesn't follow the rules and behave like meng lang~
The emperor Cao Rui didn't think it was a problem.

Firstly, he felt that Xia Houhui was still young, and it was understandable for him to act a little out of line. In the future, when he got older, his temperament would also become serious.

On the other hand, it was the details mentioned by Xia Houhui in this private performance, which made the emperor feel that he had begun to restrain his mind.

It is about the request of the survivors of Yanshan Mountain.

The premise of the sneak attack on the Wancheng Valley is to appease the survivors of Yanshan first, so that they and the Shanman are willing to lead the way for the Wei army.

The temple and the governor's office in Yangzhou will handle matters such as the transfer from Wenqin to the prefect of Lujiang, the resettlement of Huatianmu, etc., and they will spontaneously select twenty brave men to seek refuge with Xia Houhui's retinue and ask for service money. The cash-strapped Xia Houhui couldn't solve it.

Therefore, he mentioned it in the private recital.

First, he said that he already had enough retinues and had no resources to take on more things, and then asked the emperor to entrust Man Chong or Wang Ling to resettle the twenty survivors of Shanshan.

For example, if recruited into the army to serve as team leaders, village chiefs, or arrange to be pavilion chiefs in townships and counties, begging for robbers and so on, their official positions will reassure them, and they will no longer have the intention of asking others for protection.

In this regard, the emperor Cao Rui was very pleased.

Because judging from Xia Houhui's "bad deeds" in the past, when encountering such a thing, he should complain to him and cry poorly.

For example, he sighed with emotion, "Aspires to seek thieves for the national dance, and is willing to die, but even a mere [-] subordinates have no money to support" and so on, so as to "hint" that he gave money
It has been released for nearly a year, but this vertical instrument has also been modified.

This is the emotion of the emperor Cao Rui.

It also contributed to his willingness to take precautions first.

Well, if he transfers Xia Houhui away from Huainan in the future in order to reuse him, he must first find a candidate who will continue to carry out the reform of the scholar family and the policy of recruiting soldiers in the villages, so as not to give up halfway.

It's just that this candidate is not easy to decide.

It's not that many clans or the descendants of Qiao Pei Yuanxun are so unbearable that even Xiao Gui and Cao Sui can't do it.

But among these people, there are almost none with lower experience and official positions than Xia Houhui.

Sent to be the successor~
After arriving in Huainan, it is natural to give Xiahou Hui a deputy position first, and be familiar with the reform affairs by ear and eyes, so that the reform can continue to be implemented in the future.

Sending the elderly over there is afraid that because the resume and official position are higher than Xia Houhui's, they will secretly feel dissatisfied.

But if you send someone who is very young and has not yet become an official, you are worried about embarrassing the heavy responsibility.

Alas, who can do it?

Emperor Cao Rui, who could not bear the cold wind and walked slowly back to the palace, was also thinking about it.

He waited until the servants brought the meals, and when he realized that there was a lot of meat tonight, his eyebrows suddenly relaxed.

"Is Desi on duty in the palace today? If so, let him come and have dinner with me."

"only."

Huainan's mid-spring and February are full of vitality.

The mild sunshine floods the field with spring colors. The grass on the south bank of the Huai River grows luxuriantly, mixed with various wild flowers that are not well-known; Flying happily among the flowers, the sound of the arrival of spring.

When people see it, they can't help but feel happy.

But at this time Xia Houhui was in a rather bad mood.

Because what Wang Ling, the governor of Yangzhou, did was true, it made him very angry.

However, he said that at the end of last year, when the winter edict came to Shouchun, he personally rushed to the governor's mansion to ask for an interview, intending to ask for supplies for the new army, and to build a house and paint fields in advance.

At that time, Wang Ling sent Chief Shi to reply him, claiming that everything will be properly arranged in the Governor's Mansion in February this year, so that he should not come and point fingers to make people dislike him.

Xia Houhui had nothing to say about this, so she had to wait patiently.

As a result, the governor's office did follow the schedule of the temple to do things such as painting fields and building houses, but it was very unethical.

The so-called house is a frame supported by several pillars, and then it is finished with wooden planks and yellow mud, and the roof is covered with thatch.

When the construction was just started, Xia Houhui, who was watching from the side, almost pulled out the ring head knife, and chopped off the little official who ordered Li Shu to do things on the charge of negligence.

After the riots, the Chief of the Governor's Office, Shi, came forward and claimed that this is the standard for the state and county to build houses for the people, and it is also the limit of what the Governor's Office can do.

Because there are very few Li Shu in Yangzhou, and there are few young and strong people who can collect corvee, and the imperial court moved two thousand households here at one time. If they built it carefully, it would be impossible to complete all the houses as scheduled.

Besides, is it possible that the houses where scholars and farmers lived should be built as solidly as posthouses?
This excuse made Xia Houhui unable to criticize any more.

After all, today's officials and assistants of the State of Wei regard scholars and Tuntian guests as slaves.

In particular, Wang Ling was born in a noble family. Although he had a lot of official voices among the herdsmen in various states and counties, he didn't care about the lives of these people in his bones.

Therefore, Xia Houhui had no choice but to ask for knives, axes and other things to prepare first.

It was planned that when the scholars or farmers migrated, they would go to Shoushan Mountain to cut wood and get materials to strengthen the house.

And at the end of January in the beginning of spring, he was once again irritated by the governor's office.

At this time, the governor's office has already drawn the fields, and the grain seeds and farm tools have been transferred one after another, but the cattle are not given.

You must know that the fields on both sides of the Huai River have been abandoned for many years, the land has long been caked and stiff, and the weeds are almost three feet high!

If you want to re-cultivate, you have to plow deeply in advance to clean up the deep weed root system and break up the stiff soil before you can expect to sow and harvest. Otherwise, throwing away the grain seeds is equivalent to slash-and-burn farming.

In this way, the governor's mansion does not provide cattle or other animal power, and Xia Houhui, who only relies on manpower to cultivate, how can he guarantee the food for these two thousand households this year?
However, the reason given by the governor's office was that the counties and counties in Yangzhou had too little animal power for their own use, and there was no excess animal power for Xia Houhui.

This reason made Xia Houhui furious.

Since it is insufficient for self-use, why didn't the governor's office go to the temple in advance and ask the court to transfer some from Yanzhou or Yuzhou! ?

When Xia Houhui questioned him with this question, Shi, the governor of the governor's office, made him speechless with a single sentence.

Whether it is a scholar family or a farmer, it is still included in the farming system.

According to the law, the local officials of the prefectures and counties have no right to intervene in the affairs of Diannong.

If this kind of petition asks the imperial court to ask for farming cattle or other materials, it will not be the turn of the governor's office to come forward.

If I get a chance in the future, I will definitely go to the table for impeachment!
Xia Houhui, who learned from personal experience how serious the buck-passing style of Wei State bureaucrats is, was so indignant in his heart.

Of course, anger doesn't solve the problem.

After meditating for a day or two, he went to General Zhengdong's office to ask to see Man Chong.

He explained the matter in a realistic manner, and then asked Man Chong, on the grounds that there was no war now, if he could lend him the old and weak horses eliminated by the cavalry battalion and the poor horses that were transported in the army.

Man Chong seems to have expected this.

After listening, he waved his hand and told him to go to Li Changshi to ask for it.

The quickness of the promise made Xia Houhui feel incredible - when did Man Chong, who is known for his strict law enforcement, become so considerate?

After finding Li Changshi to obtain the documents, Li Changshi's exhortation made him wake up.

"If Zhiquan has other difficulties in the future, feel free to come to me, and make sure that this year's spring plowing will not be delayed."

That's it!

Xia Houhui, who was overwhelmed and dizzy by many trivial matters, remembered that the new army he supervised was under the General Zhengdong's Office.

The food and fodder equipment after becoming an army is also dispatched by Man Chong.

For future war considerations, Man Chong will not let the new army face the dilemma of not being self-sufficient.

Co-author, did I find the wrong person before, and I was so angry with the governor's office for no reason?

Xia Houhui, who brought out forty or fifty out-of-service horses from the cavalry battalion with the documents, laughed at himself belatedly.

My heart quickly became excited.

Because he suddenly thought, since Zhengdong General's Office has this level of concern, does it mean that Man Chong will not refuse some of his small requests that are not too much in the future, under the right timing and the right reason? ?

Well, let's give it a try.

It is an extra joy if it is done, and there is no loss if it fails.

Quite a coincidence, after he made up his mind, only seven or eight days later, he ushered in the opportunity to practice.

The reason is that the first batch of migrants arrived in Huainan.

Originating from the intention to treat these scholars as "trees of trust", the emperor ordered the scholars who migrated from Yanzhou to select veterans who were skilled in combat from the military villages of various counties, so the migration time also depended on the time of each county. County selection depends on the speed.

More than 200 households from Chengyang County were the fastest to arrive in Huainan.

Needless to say the reason.

Xiahouhui's fourth brother, Xiahouwei, who served as the Diannong school lieutenant in Yanzhou, is based in Chengyang County, and the efficiency of selecting scholars is naturally extremely fast.

However, migrating at the turn of spring and winter will inevitably be injured by wind and snow.

Some women and children of scholar families suffered from the cold, and if they were left alone, they would become aggravated and become cold, causing countless deaths.

Therefore, after Xia Houhui learned about it, he went back to the city to look for Li Changshi.

Ask him to separate several doctors from other armies into the new army.

This made Li Changshi a little embarrassed.

Nowadays, there are very few Chinese doctors in the army, and they mainly treat knife and arrow wounds. Similar to this kind of minor ailments such as cold and heatstroke, soldiers rely on their own bodies to resist it.

And the medicinal materials stored in the army are not too much~
Take it to the scholar's family. Well, isn't it a bit too wasteful?

However, because Xia Houhui was favored by the emperor, Li Changshi finally separated two military doctors and some medicinal materials.

Then he didn't forget to tell Huainan that there was a shortage of supplies, so he couldn't favor one over the other and let the other generals criticize him in private, so that Xia Houhui could find a way to solve this kind of thing in the future.

It also made Xia Houhui's mind move instantly.

He suddenly thought of how to make this new army composed of Shijia and Tuntian Ke quickly increase its combat power and be willing to die under his command without hesitation!

(End of this chapter)