The Infinite Heavens Run Away

268 Chapter 7.24
Chapter 7 I forged the soul of Han in the Three Kingdoms
7.24 Bingzhou governor, military and political stability

At the end of the seventh year of Guanghe, after nearly a year of brutal bloody battles, the Han army basically wiped out most of the main forces of the Yellow Turbans, and the rest were just scattered fish, which could no longer cause any real problems.

In order to express peace in the world, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty Liu Hong changed the year name "Guanghe" to "Zhongping", which was the first year of Zhongping.

After returning to the capital, surrendering his orders, and paying homage to His Majesty the Emperor, Deng Feng stayed at the military camp in the suburbs for more than half a month, mainly renovating his troops and showing off to his superiors. During this period, some powerful forces finally came to win over him, and they all allowed him to All kinds of high-sounding excuses were sent away.

Privately, he expressed his loyalty to Zhang Rang, or Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, by making offerings to him, and "showed his attitude" to General He Jin by visiting the palace from time to time to "attend him".

In particular, he specifically notified the Shangdang to privately increase the supply of war horses and iron ingots to He Jin, which achieved practical results on both sides.

As for the issue of telling the truth, it actually does not exist at all.

On the one hand, everyone in the world knows that he bought the official position from Zhang Rang, so he naturally belongs to the "eunuch party". No one will doubt this.

On the other hand, he stayed in the capital several times, at least two months in between, but never met He Jin even once except for official business. Zhang Rang never doubted that he would "change jobs."

In private, Deng Feng did his best to the Queen for countless times, with the wind blowing by his pillow, and the effect was impressive. He Jin always believed that he was his "loyal undercover".

Deng Feng also fought continuously. When he finally led his army back to Shangdang's hometown, it had already entered December. According to the latest calculation method of year numbers, it was December of the first year of Zhongping, or the end of 184 AD.
.After spending two days arranging the garrison of the troops, and specially arranging the rotation of vacations for the officers and soldiers below, Deng Feng finally returned to his home in the Prefect's Mansion.

"Sir!" As soon as they entered the inner house, the two girls hugged Deng Feng from left to right regardless of each other, not even paying attention to the little fox next to him who covered his mouth and snickered.

After finally comforting them, Deng Feng looked at Xiao Longnu with a strange expression, because her lover's belly was still bulging. In other words, after twelve months of pregnancy, the baby still showed no sign of birth.

"Husband, you are back." Xiao Longnu didn't realize anything was wrong, but she naturally came up and leaned into Deng Feng's arms.

"This little guy." Deng Feng gave his lover a long kiss and then squatted down gently, placing his ear on his bulging belly.

With his cultivation level, he can clearly hear the baby's heartbeat, and can also clearly judge through mental scanning that the baby's system is much higher than the normal data. In reality, a seven or eight-year-old child may not be comparable except for his size. He is in good health.

"Sir, it may have something to do with you and your wife being too strong. According to the normal pulse of pregnant women, the baby's development in all aspects is now equivalent to less than 6 months under normal circumstances."

As a miraculous doctor with an early stage of Golden Elixir cultivation, Cheng Lingsu would definitely not have any problems with his technical level.

"In other words, it will take nearly 20 months for this little guy to be born?" Deng Feng was a little confused. He really hadn't considered this issue.

"According to Sister Ling's calculation, it should be a little over 19 months." Xiao Zhao added next to him.

"Long'er, do you feel any discomfort?" Since the baby is fine, Deng Feng must check on his lover.

"No?" Xiao Longnu said no, then it must be no.

"Sir, my wife's physical condition is normal, and it matches the normal development of an ordinary pregnant woman." Cheng Lingsu meant that Xiao Longnu's current physical condition is normal, and in terms of pregnant women, it is equivalent to that of ordinary people when they are less than 6 months old.

"Forget it, this little guy is willing to stay, let him stay a little longer." Deng Feng complained helplessly. He couldn't call this little troublemaker out in advance, so he had to continue to hug his lover and talk love. Pregnant women are very Sensitive, even pregnant women in the golden elixir stage are the same.

"My lord, what shall we do next?" Cheng Lingsu, the butler, couldn't help asking after spending a long time with the four girls.

"There is nothing to do. We need to replenish the troops and strengthen the training of the personal barracks. I will definitely become the governor of the state this year and take charge of the affairs of a state. This troop strength is definitely not enough, so we need to strengthen training. The future will be good. Promotion and appointment.”

Deng Feng has no idea about this. As long as he is still in the position of the prefect of the Shangdang, he will not be able to develop the army for a day, and it will not even be easy to make money. It will make some people unable to sit still."

"Hehe, Master, you are overthinking. Even in the current situation, there are many people who wanted to get involved, but they were solved by us." Xiao Zhao's attitude was as always.

"Mainly the Ding family. Now they also realize that we and the Zhang family have cooperated, but they can't suppress both of us at the same time. They are still in a stalemate."

"It's okay. When I become the governor of Bingzhou, I will arrange them as soon as possible." Deng Feng didn't take it too seriously. These aristocratic families in the late Han Dynasty counted one by one, and punished one of the nine clans if they had one, and never went too far.

What's more, in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are a waste of time. "I have also met Ding Yuan. He is currently serving in the court and his position is not low, but the governor of Bingzhou will have nothing to do with him."

After discussing with the two girls for a long time - Xiao Longnu had no interest in these topics, and the pregnant woman was sleepy, Deng Feng asked the little fox to help her go back to rest - Deng Feng finally decided to remain unchanged in the face of all changes. It won’t be too long anyway.

This is true next. Counting the 2000 infantry and other supplementary units that Cheng Lingsu strengthened during Deng Feng's campaign, Deng Feng's military strength has exceeded 8000, of which more than 7000 are combat troops. The consumption is huge.

According to the normal output of Shangdang County, even if a little tax is not handed over to the court, it can only support 5000 at most, not to mention that most of the tax must be turned over.

Counting the salaries allocated by the imperial court for county soldiers according to normal standards, the income of a county in Shangdang can only support less than 4000 people. The rest depends on smuggling caravans and reselling iron ingots, war horses and other sensitive materials, but at least Deng Feng is not needed. Add extra money.

Time passed quickly. In June of the second year of Zhongping, the imperial edict from the capital finally arrived, and it was Zhang Rang who came in person to issue the edict.

"The emperor was entrusted with the destiny of heaven, and the edict said: "Check out Deng Feng, the prefect of the Shangdang Party. He has an orderly administration, has made meritorious deeds in leading the troops, and sacrificed his life to defeat the Yellow Turban."

Another set of forty-six parallel essays. In short, the final summary means that he was promoted to the governor of Bingzhou to lead the affairs of the state; he was also given the title of "General Pingbei" to lead the military affairs of Bingzhou.Honestly speaking, this reward is truly the most benevolent and righteous thing to do.

The first is the position. He is now officially appointed as the promoted governor of Bingzhou, which is also the head of the administrative department of Bingzhou. The annual salary is nominally 3000 shi, which is equivalent to the current high-ranking official.

Moreover, there were only 13 states in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was more valuable than the provincial leader in real society. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he would be a governor of a province without the title of Liubu Shilang, and his treatment would be second-rank.

The second is the title. General Pingbei mainly allows him to lead the troops. He is a third-level military position with a title, which is one of the "Four Expeditions, Four Towns, Four Ans and Four Pings". The following "Leading and Bingzhou Military" means all the military positions of Bingzhou in the future. He can settle matters with just one word.

To sum up in one sentence, Deng Feng is now the military, administrative, and judicial leader of the entire Bingzhou. He has the highest authority for everything that happens in Bingzhou. With this degree of decentralization, it is no wonder that the Eastern Han Dynasty quickly lost control of the local area.

Bingzhou is a provincial administrative unit in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It has jurisdiction over nine counties including Taiyuan, Shangdang, Xihe, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Shuofang, Wuyuan and Shangjun. The state seat is Jinyang. In real history, Han Dynasty During the Jian'an period of Emperor Xian, it was merged into Jizhou.

This place roughly occupies a part of the real Lao Vinegar Province, the Netherlands Province and the Handmade Mutton Province. It is rich in various resources such as coal mines, iron mines, saltpeter mines, sulfur mines, etc., and has been famous for its powerful cavalry since ancient times. The world is very suitable for development.

With the reputation and strength, Deng Feng immediately moved into Jinyang, the Bingzhou government office, as quickly as possible, and then began to develop according to his own plan. In this kind of development, it lasted for three full years.First of all, in terms of military affairs, Deng Feng immediately arranged to accept three generals, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and Huang Zhong, with 600 cavalry and [-] infantrymen respectively to "inspect" the nine counties under his jurisdiction.

Every time they arrived at a place, they quickly started to organize the army. The basic operation was to assess and eliminate the original soldiers from each county, and then appoint their own captains (the person in charge of military affairs at the county level), leaving cavalry and infantry in each place. 200 each.

With these elite soldiers as the backbone, and the elites specially drawn by Deng Feng from the personal army battalion as the officers or adjutants, the county soldiers were sorted out again.

It is guaranteed that each county has 200 cavalry, 200 crossbowmen, and 400 infantry, which means that each county has 800 county soldiers, and they are all elite soldiers who have undergone rigorous training.

Among them, infantry is no longer the main combat unit. The infantry in a county is no longer even issued with Chinese-style steel plate armor. Instead, it is uniformly equipped with double-layer leather armor. The weapon is not the main combat weapon spear designed by Deng Feng. Instead, it was replaced with a Huanshou knife about 1 meter long.

Their role is only to assist in maintaining law and order in peacetime. During wartime, they will be uniformly dispatched just in case. For this purpose, 100 security infantrymen of the same level are specially arranged in each county. County captains are also uniformly arranged by the state governor's office.

The real field troops are another 200 cavalry and 200 horse crossbowmen. These troops are supported by each county. It's not that they don't want more, but more will consume too much and it's really difficult to arrange.

This adjustment was also praised by the court in the capital, because it did significantly reduce the number of county soldiers. Originally, the normal number of county soldiers in a county was between 1500 and 2000, but this time it was reduced by more than half.

However, the number of people is smaller, but the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, and the most important thing is that the cost is more.

But the princes in the court will not care about it, and will only issue military expenditures at an unknown discount according to normal standards. The counties and counties can only be responsible for the shortfall.

Fortunately, with Deng Feng's powerful force as a deterrent, the major families were much more "happy" in paying taxes. The income of each county was completely sufficient, and even the balance at the end of the year was even greater.

There are four special cases here, namely Shangdang County plus three important border areas, namely Yanmen, Yunzhong and Xihe.

Shangdang is special, on the one hand, because Deng Feng's arsenal, quilt factory, tannery factory, woolen textile factory and other industries are all there. It is Deng Feng's absolute hometown.

On the other hand, this place borders Sili and Jizhou, and is a border area. Just in case, Deng Feng went to the court to report that his subordinate Gao Shun was the prefect of Shangdang, and the number of soldiers in Shangdang County was not 800. , but a full 2 people.

Among them, there are 1200 cavalry, 600 horse crossbowmen, and the remaining 600 infantry are not security forces, but regular field spear infantry.

Deng Feng spent more than half a year just doing this sorting. There was no other way. As the saying goes, "How can you sweep the world if you don't clean one house?" You can't talk about treating guests to dinner until your own house is clean.

For this reason, Deng Feng asked the three former governors to "unfortunately be killed by the remnants of the Yellow Turbans", and also tried every means to send away the remaining governors, mainly by paying for them himself, so that they could coordinate the transfer of the forces behind them, and finally completely clean up.

Immediately afterwards, Deng Feng made a special report and revoked the post of prefect of five inland counties. All affairs were handled by the county magistrate (the first administrative leader), the envoy (the second administrative leader and the judicial leader), the clerk (the financial leader) and the captain (military leader). , the top security officer) is in charge.

The reason for Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was to "separate the power below to facilitate control." For this reason, Deng Feng secretly took Xiao Zhao to the capital and had a "pillow breeze" with Queen He for half a month. He Jin and Zhang Rang were given a large sum of money as tribute respectively, and finally it was done.

This model was also Deng Feng's experiment for future governance. After all, the normal feudal society where everything was handled by county magistrates and prefects was too concentrated of power.

But in the future, it is impossible to realize the separate management of various parts now. We can only try the simplified version first and adjust it if there are problems.

The above are the county soldiers, who are basically responsible for the defense of the county no matter in peacetime or wartime, similar to the "National Guard" in the real world. Cavalry and cavalry crossbowmen may also be mobilized when necessary, but the security infantry is absolutely not at any time. will move.

Everything was done to ensure Deng Feng's absolute control over the entire Bingzhou, but it was not Deng Feng's main force.

The real main force in Deng Feng's hands was the regular field troops stationed in Yanmen, Yunzhong, Xihe and Jinyang, including 10000 cavalry.

Among them, the three border areas have 2000 each, and are in charge of Zhang Liao (Prefect of Yanmen), Huang Zhong (Prefect of Yunzhong) and Shi A (Prefect of Xihe). The remaining 4000 are stationed in Jinyang, the administrative center.

15000长矛野战步兵、6000骑马弩兵，其中三个边关要地各有3000步兵与1000弩兵，剩下的6000步兵与3000弩兵也留在了晋阳治所。

A total of 31000 elite field troops are Deng Feng's biggest trump card.

In order to build them, Deng Feng emptied the treasury of the Bingzhou government and the treasury of the counties and vassals under his jurisdiction, and spent more than half of the gold he brought. Only then could they be completed, equipped, and trained within one year.

Of course, this is also thanks to the group of talents recruited and defected to him later.

The second is talent recruitment.In the past three years, Deng Feng has successively recruited many talents from various places, mainly elites from poor families. A small number of children from aristocratic families recruited due to various connections are mostly for symbolic purposes.

Now, many of these people are celebrities in the original work, such as Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi, who took the initiative to defect; Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, who were recruited by Deng Feng to Yingchuan.

There are not many other talented people, but there are more than 100 people. These people effectively ensure the operation of the entire Bingzhou administrative system.

Deng Feng officially appointed Chen Gong as Bingzhou Biejiao, who had an overview of the state's political affairs. Deng Feng had never been a person who governed the country. He also saw that Comrade Chen Gong was not very good at military affairs. It was obviously inappropriate for him to be a military advisor. It's a perfect fit, but he's really a good hand in government affairs.

Think about it, in the original work, for a warrior like Lu Bu, there was no major problem in the management of his territory. Chen Gong, the only senior civil servant, definitely contributed a lot.

Appointing Guo Jia to serve as a wine liberator and a soldier is actually a military advisor position. No one should doubt his military ability. Deng Feng specially arranged for Cheng Lingsu to give him a comprehensive physical examination.

As a result, he was speechless and discovered that he was only in his early 20s, and it was God's mercy that he could live for another ten years. Therefore, Deng Feng forcibly arranged for him to have a recuperation course and the "Nine Yin Manual" supporting practice.

Xu Shu was appointed as a minister. He was regarded as the great steward of the army's logistics. He could also be used in combat when necessary. Zhao Feng, the original leader of the supply camp, became his deputy. As for how to subdue the troops, Deng Feng did not ask. He believed that Xu Shu It can definitely be settled.

In terms of generals, Deng Feng gained a lot.First of all, Zhao Yun came back from his studies. Deng Feng officially made him the head of his direct cavalry. In theory, all the cavalry stationed in Jinyang were under his control.

Special personnel were sent to recruit Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai. Their abilities were nothing to say, so Deng Feng put them in charge of the infantry respectively.

There was also a "general" who was not outstanding in ability but was "extremely famous", Comrade Liao Hua, who also took the initiative to serve. Deng Feng, with an incompetent attitude, asked him to follow Zhao Yun as his deputy.

With military and political stability, other aspects will be easy to talk about.

(End of this chapter)