Not only that, because these farm soldiers bear combat responsibilities, they have many more privileges than ordinary farmers. For example, they do not need to pay interest when borrowing grain from the prefect in the event of a disaster. If a war breaks out during the busy farming season, the prefect will transfer other people to help you solve the crop problem. The prefect is responsible for the food problem during the slack season training.
The most important thing is that as long as you become a peasant soldier, you will no longer have to worry about the biggest problem at the end of the Han Dynasty: land annexation. Those noble families, relying on their large numbers, have come up with endless ways to seize the land of bankrupt people. But once you become a peasant soldier, the Sima in charge of your separate department and the higher-level prefect will be your strongest backing.
These peasant soldiers farm during the busy farming season and train during the slack farming season. If a war breaks out, they will urgently be transformed from farmers into the Zhangshui and Julu camps. This will barely solve the problem of food shortage. The White Horse Battalion, which has followed them the longest, has the strongest combat effectiveness, and has the highest quality soldiers, still maintains the training level of full-time professional soldiers. These one thousand cavalry and fifteen hundred heavy armored infantry are still their sharpest knives.
After coming up with a revised version of the "Soldier-Farm System", Liuzhuang was no longer satisfied with the size of three battalions. Previously, I wanted to have three battalions of full-time soldiers. Since now two battalions are forced to become farm soldiers, the combat effectiveness of three battalions is naturally far from enough. Liuzhuang started a new game with these aristocratic families over the issue of "dependent people".
Who would want to be someone else's slave if they couldn't survive?
Although the land tax rate in the Eastern Han Dynasty was always 1% of 30, which was incredibly honest, it became a bad thing when it was implemented at the lower levels.
The common people were illiterate, and the prefect was in charge of the taxation of a county. If he wanted to make a little more money and raise the tax rate, the people had no way to stop him. They only needed to hand over one thirtieth of the grain to Luoyang, and the rest would be theirs.
The county magistrate is in charge of the taxation of a county. If he wants to make some money, he can raise the tax rate. He only needs to hand over one thirtieth of the grain to Luoyang, and the excess part to the prefect will be handed over to the prefect, and the rest is his.
How much more could be collected depended entirely on how much conscience the prefects and county governors had left. Under layers of exploitation, the more conscientious ones collected five or six out of ten taxes, while the more ruthless ones collected seven or eight out of ten. Add to that the endless corvee labor, taxes, and layers of exploitation, and it was extremely difficult for the people in the late Han Dynasty to survive. If they encountered natural disasters or wars, they could not survive at all. These farmers were as miserable as the serfs of the Xianbei people, and it was even too much. Collecting taxes ten or eight years in advance and forcing people to death was a basic practice.
But it doesn’t matter. Being forced to this point, there is only one choice left besides rebellion, and that is to become a slave of the wealthy and powerful families, that is, to become a dependent.
The wealthy and powerful do not have to pay taxes. As long as you become their domestic slave, you can get rid of the tax system that had been ruined by the Han Dynasty. The county magistrate and the prefect are temporary officials. They don't care how the farmers live. They will just make money for a few years and then leave.
The aristocratic families will always take root here, and they treat the people as masters treat their lambs. In this extremely rotten doomsday, they are a little better. At least they will cherish their slaves. Although they have lost their freedom, at least they can eat their fill every day and do not have to do terrifying corvee labor.
However, once they became dependents, the tax rates that were originally levied on them would be passed on to other free citizens, making it impossible for other people to survive. They would have to rely on the powerful families for survival and would begin further land annexation, which would directly create a vicious circle.
This problem was easy to solve. Liu Zhuang also wanted to lower the tax rate, but he could not afford to support the army without enough food. In the end, in order to strike a balance between caring for the people and supporting the army, he reset the tax rate in Hedong County: 40% of the tax. Starting next year, he would only collect 40%, and at the same time directly send troops he trusted to supervise each county to prevent these people from collecting too much.
Ordinary land is taxed at four out of ten, while military land is taxed at three out of ten, with seven for civilians and three for officials. This method was used to give military households super preferential treatment, and this system was gradually extended to Anyi and areas near the Wei River.
The peasants originally had no other choice in this rotten world, so they depended on the powerful. Now they found that there was a bigger thigh to cling to, and the tax rate was more favorable. They only had to pay 40% of the grain, and if they could be selected into the army, they only had to pay 30%. The speed of joining the military farming system was astonishing. Soon, the nearly 40,000 people brought by Liuzhuang increased to 120,000. The peasants on both sides of the Laishui River who could not survive no longer flowed into the powerful families, but flowed to themselves.
Including the people from Yanmen and Julu whom he brought with him, the total population of Hedong County is one million. Now there are 120,000 people on both sides of the Laishui River, and they are under his control.
Liu Zhuang took full advantage and began to put pressure on the Wei family regarding the exchange of land in Fenshui. As a time traveler, he knew the biggest weakness of the aristocratic family: face.
No matter how dirty and ugly the things these Confucian scholars and aristocratic families did in private, they always appeared bright and righteous on the surface. They forced the common people to change their land and tried to drive them to death. These are not things that can be put on the table. These are topics that cannot even be mentioned. They cannot be seen in the light and cannot be weighed.
So the most feared thing about this kind of thing that cannot be exposed is that you expose it to the public. Forcing farmers to sell their land and become slaves, if they are not weighed, they weigh less than 4 taels. After being weighed, they weigh more than 1,000 kilograms. To put it bluntly, can you directly say that all your knowledge has been in vain? You have not read the classics on state governance by the Confucian sages of all dynasties.
Therefore, if you weigh these things on him, directly bring out the Wei family's scandals, and deal with him openly, all the noble families will have nothing to say, so what? You, the noble families with a bright and dignified appearance, these great scholars who are known for their benevolence, filial piety, integrity and wisdom, also want to get involved in such things?
However, doing so would indeed cause a break with the aristocratic families and would make the matter worse, so the best way was to use this matter as a threat and force the Wei family to compromise secretly.
Chapter 123: Getting the Best of Both Worlds
The sixteenth day of the first lunar month in the second year of Guanghe.
After the New Year, Wei De was found guilty by Liu Zhuang in front of everyone for attempting to force tens of thousands of people to death. He was directly sentenced to death and the memorial was sent to Luoyang for final review, leaving Wei Ji speechless.
Before he could react, Liu Zhuang started to weigh in on the fact that he had forced the common people to death - you say, should I throw all the dirty water of your Wei family on Wei De, and then kill him and be done with it? Or is killing Wei De not enough, should I directly report it to the Sili Xiaowei, or even the emperor, and make your Wei family's behavior of forcing the common people to death public?
Wei Ji, who was caught in the act, was also speechless. If this matter became a big deal, it would damage the reputation of the Wei family. Other families would not stand by him on this matter for the sake of their external image of integrity and righteousness. They had no choice but to return the forcibly exchanged land to the people.
As for those wastelands? You still want to take them back? What a joke! I spent so much money and effort to help the people you drove away to reclaim the land. You just want to go back?
Having suffered a loss, Wei Ji had to leave, and the power of the Wei family was reduced. In order to appease and control this huge family, Liu Zhuang appointed several illegitimate sons of the Wei family as his own officials to enrich the civil service team and divide the power of the Wei family.
The Han Dynasty was a dual monarchy, in which the emperor was everyone's lord; but the person who promoted you to an official position was also your lord; these illegitimate sons, like Gongsun Zan, were knowledgeable and cultured, but they had a low status in the Wei family, and they all relied on the power of the prefect to be promoted. Naturally, they were grateful to Liu Zhuang and recognized him as their second lord.
The moral standards of the Han people, especially the Confucian scholars, are very high. It is extremely rare for them to dare to betray their masters, as they would be stabbed in the back.
After the Wei family lost so much land, the people who originally depended on them had no land to farm. Those who were forced into slavery because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion fled one after another, and some people even left without signing a contract. Now it seems that only the "farmer-soldier system" set up by the prefect can provide us with land, and they don't have to perform corvée labor, and the treatment is good, so they flocked to Liu Zhuang's army.
According to preliminary calculations, the number of people under the battalion system has increased from 120,000 to 200,000.
After winning the initial battle for land and population with the aristocratic families, Liu Zhuang immediately turned to the issue of soldier construction. If war broke out, in addition to the White Horse Battalion that was out of production, he could select 10,000 strong men from the 200,000 people to join the army, and provide 20,000 logistics personnel. This ratio was a bit scary, mainly because most of the 40,000 people Liu Zhuang brought from Jizhou were young and middle-aged men.
As these two new camps had not been trained yet, no separate Sima was appointed for the time being. Liu Zhuang just gave them names. Because the farm fields of these soldiers were all in Anyi and near Laishui, they were named Anyi Camp and Laishui Camp.
However, the two newly added battalions did not have corresponding armor, and the weapons could only equip 5,000 of them, that is, the original Zhangshui and Julu battalions. The extra people could only be given a spear each. As for making a team configuration of swords and shields, halberds, infantry spears, battle formation spears, and bows and arrows, it was very difficult.
Liu Zhuang shook his head. Dong Zhuo had already moved all the armory in Hedong to arm his own troops. He should put the armor aside for now and deal with the weapons, flags and shields of these people first. If he could buy them, he would buy them. If he couldn't, he would gather all the craftsmen in Anyi, give them a raise and ask them to make them for him quickly.
According to his current configuration of front-row sword and shield soldiers equipped with five javelins, halberds, infantry spears, and battle spears, three of whom are equipped with a crossbow, and the last person is equipped with a bow, it would cost 221 strings of money to arm a hundred light-armored militiamen, and a total of 11050 strings of money for the extra five thousand people. Fortunately, everyone's public property is as high as strings of money, and he only takes out half of it to expand the army, making these five thousand people light infantry.
Liu Zhuang was not idle with the remaining 8950 strings of public funds. He sent Lu Bu to Xihe County to buy a horse. The price of a war horse with all the saddles ranged from 2 strings of strings to 12 strings of strings, while the price of an ordinary horse was around 1 string of strings. It mainly depended on the quality of the horse. As an excellent cavalry general, Lu Bu understood the pros and cons of horses better than himself, and she was also extremely good at fighting. No one dared to steal her horse - except Zhang Fei.
After a lot of trouble, Lu Bu spent five thousand strings of cash and brought back five hundred war horses and two thousand ordinary horses from Xihe County. Together with the horses trained by the Tuoba tribe, he finally made the one thousand cavalrymen in the White Horse Camp have a luxurious configuration of three horses per person. One horse was used to carry people when traveling, one was responsible for carrying the cavalry's baggage and equipment, and the last one was responsible for charging on the battlefield, allowing the strategic mobility of the White Horse cavalry to compete with the nomads.
Not only that, the newly established Anyi Camp also had 600 cavalrymen because of the 100 war horses sent by Dong Zhuo. After these 500 war horses were equipped with iron stirrups and high-bridge saddles, they began to train intensively.
Liu Zhuang also marked out a piece of grassland near Anyi and started raising horses.
As for the remaining 3,000 strings of cash, Liu Zhuang first used the market price to purchase a large amount of grain. Some of it was used for storage, and some was used to feed the laborers who were building Yubi City and doing corvée labor.
These laborers who were conscripted for labor service ate the food distributed by the prefect and could not help but feel grateful: In the Han Dynasty, laborers were required to provide their own food. If you were accidentally conscripted to a distant place for labor service and could not bring so much food, you had to take money to buy it locally, or write a letter to ask your family to send money and food, otherwise you would starve to death outside.
If you don't want to do corvee labor, it's okay. As long as you pay money, you can be exempted from this service.
Following this process, it was very easy for the officials in charge of corvée to squeeze money from the people. Many families went bankrupt due to corvée and simply became slaves of wealthy families to avoid the heavy taxes of the Han Dynasty.
During this corvée labor, the laborers were surprised to find that the Hedong prefect was actually responsible for everyone's meals. In addition, he had previously requested the emperor to exempt Hedong County from taxes for two years, and he had competed with the aristocratic families for the benefit of the people. As a result, all the people in Hedong were grateful to the new prefect, and they sighed that finally an honest official had come and they would finally have a good life.
Seeing the people recovering their vitality under Liu Zhuang's governance, Zhao Yun's favorability towards Liu Zhuang also soared. To help the weak and fight against the strong and to save the world was her own wish and ambition. Every policy of Liu Zhuang made Zhao Yun extremely happy. As a close guard, she spent more time with Liu Zhuang every day than her two wives and two concubines, and her pale eyes were sparkling with stars.
Jia Xu, on the other hand, was both happy and sad. This new prefect was quite something. His policies reduced the burden on the people, increased his military strength, and did not offend the noble families. Many children of noble families even regarded Liu Zhuang as their second lord. The people, the army, and the noble families all thought it was a good deal. It was a win-win situation for all three parties.
If this virtuous cycle continues, there is a very high possibility that I will soar along with Liu Fujun.
But, can you let me do less work? Why do I feel like there are more and more things to do after following Mr. Liu, and I am getting more and more tired?
The author says:
Author's words: 1850 monthly tickets plus more~
Chapter 124: Han Army Stationed in the Xiongnu
March 10, 2013
After the construction of Yubi City was completed, Zhang He, who was in charge of supervising the construction, broke out in a cold sweat when he looked at the city: the Lord's vision was indeed sharp. The city was located on a high ground between the Emei Terrace and the Fen River. The east, west, south and north sides were all surrounded by cliffs 20 to 30 meters high, which were natural protective walls. Only the ground vein connecting to the Emei Terrace in the southeast tended to be flat. All materials were transported to Yubi City from this slope, which was also the location of the Yubi city gate, but it was also a high slope starting at 40 degrees.
Now, on top of this 20-30 meter cliff, there is another rammed earth wall, and a large number of protruding arrow platforms and towers. Anyone who attacks the city will be stunned by the crossfire of the protruding arrow platforms on both sides.
What's even better is that this plateau is very large and can accommodate more than 10,000 people. Because it is close to the Fen River, there is abundant underground water. Several wells can be easily dug on the plateau to supply water. As long as we store enough food, we don't have to worry about being trapped to death. I can stay here until the enemy dies of old age!
The terrain is even more crucial: although there are three ferry crossings in Hedong, the only large ferry crossing that allows the army to pass quickly is Puban. If the Hu people come down from the north, they have to pass through Yubi if they want to go to Puban, and if they want to go to Anyi, the capital of Hedong County, they still have to pass through Yubi. This city is directly stuck in the throat of the entire Fenhe Basin and the entire Hedong County, so they have to fight.
But let's fight: there are natural cliffs of twenty or thirty meters, rammed earth walls of five or six meters high, plus sufficient supplies and water sources... Anyway, Zhang He himself was not sure that he could capture the Yubi City that he supervised the construction.
Not only that, Liu Zhuang also strengthened the city defense in Huo County, the northernmost part of Hedong County, and set up beacons and scouts. However, the location of this place was a bit awkward. After all, it was not the border. If the nomads heading north wanted to leave, it would be difficult for Huo County to stop them. In the past few months, the Zhangshui and Julu camps in Jizhou and the Laishui and Anyi camps in Hedong have also received preliminary armament and training.
After completing the defense deployment and troop training for Hedong, the next step was farming. Except for the 2,500 white horse soldiers, the other four battalions of farmers were disbanded and returned to farming. They would gather again for training after the autumn harvest. Under Liu Zhuang's governance, Hedong County was initially put on the right track.
After the New Year, Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song gathered their troops in Guanzhong and began to move westward through Longshan Mountain and into Liangzhou to fight against the Qiang people.
Faced with the attack of the two generals, the Qiang people felt a little uncomfortable, but overall they were very happy: this time the Han emperor did not even send the five battalions of the Northern Army, but only sent two people from Liangzhou with their troops, and the central government was really out of food.
The Qiang rebels were fighting fiercely with two Han armies in the west of Guanzhong, while at the same time they were causing trouble in the north of Guanzhong in an attempt to distract the pressure from Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song.
Isn't it just opening a new front? Liu Hong waved his hand and issued another imperial decree, ordering the General of the Central Army to protect the Xiongnu and the soldiers from various Xiongnu tribes in the south to march north to attack the Qiang and Hu who were wreaking havoc in the north of Guanzhong. This happened to be the third domino to collapse.
The Blood Axe Greenskins of the Southern Xiongnu were also very angry. It was fine that our most capable orcs were dragged to Luoyang to serve as soldiers in the Changshui Camp, but why are you still recruiting them endlessly? We do like to fight, but you are diverting our people to serve as soldiers in the Han army. This is weakening my rights! Reducing my people! Weakening my tribe!!!
Four years ago, we were dragged by the governors of Bingzhou and Youzhou to fight against the great demon king Tan Shihuai of the Xianbei army. As a result, our entire army was wiped out. That was such a huge loss that the tribes have not recovered until now.
Last year, the pressure on border defense was high when fighting the Yellow Turbans. While we were beating the separatist Xianbei troops, we were also urgently recruited by the various Bingzhou Lieutenants and Colonels from various green-skinned guys from the tribes and transferred to Bingzhou to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Go if you want, but the Yellow Turbans are gone, and those guys haven't been released by the Han people. I don't know whether they died outside or were taken as private soldiers by your Han warlords.
Two consecutive waves of large-scale conscription are already annoying. Now all tribes are short of people, all tribes are dissatisfied with the Han Dynasty's endless conscription, and all warlords are very angry. As a result, this year the Han Emperor wants to recruit people from every tribe and every tent to go to the south with you to fight the Qiang people?
You don’t regard us warlords as human beings, do you? They are my boys! My soldiers! Mine, mine, all mine!!!
A few days later, Liu Hong was shocked to receive a new message. During the expedition against the Xiongnu, the Lieutenant-General who Protected the Xiongnu accidentally fell off his horse, was hit by eighteen arrows in the back and died on the spot. The expedition against the Xiongnu was forced to stop. The Lieutenant-General who Protected the Xiongnu had five battalions of soldiers and horses under his command. There were 12,000 Han people from outside the Great Wall and surrendered Hu people. The Han army was a scattered sand and was now closely protected by the Great Khan of the Southern Xiongnu.
What’s even more terrifying is that some small tribes of the Southern Xiongnu were fed up with conscription and felt that the Han Dynasty’s conscription was endless, so they simply announced their separation from the rule of the Han Emperor in public - I am independent!
The position of Lieutenant General of the Protectorate of the Xiongnu was very important. The five battalions of soldiers under his jurisdiction could be understood as the American troops stationed in Japan after Japan's surrender. The Lieutenant General of the Protectorate of the Xiongnu was basically equivalent to a five-star Emperor MacArthur (Han Dynasty version).
This matter is very serious. The death of the Lieutenant General who protected the Xiongnu among the Xiongnu is just like MacArthur who died in a car accident while stationed in Japan and whose body was found to have been shot with eighteen bullets in the back when it was dug out. It is simply outrageous.
The remaining US troops stationed in Japan, no, the Han troops stationed in Xiongnu were leaderless and surrounded by the green-skinned big guys for protection... Who the hell believes that this was a traffic accident! And how many tribes have become independent openly? Don't listen to the Han emperor?
How dare these orc chieftains to go against the Han Dynasty? ! These Southern Xiongnu chieftains must have been instigated by the Southern Xiongnu Khan to rebel! They were used to test the attitude of the Han Dynasty!!!
If the Han Dynasty could deal with these small tribes, they could just flee north and disrupt the tribes of others and hide in them.
If the Han Dynasty cannot even deal with these few rebellious Xiongnu tribes, then it is basically certain that the Han Dynasty has come to an end. Not to mention others, the Southern Xiongnu Great Khan himself will raise the banner of rebellion and be detained. None of the five battalions of Han troops stationed in the Xiongnu will be able to return! All will die in the Hetao area of the Southern Xiongnu!
But if I want to wipe out those small Xiongnu tribes... I don’t have the money, food, soldiers and horses to carry out such an expedition.
Liu Hong had a splitting headache. Among the three border states, Bingzhou had the fewest people and was needed to defend against the Xianbei, so he could not withdraw them.
The people of Liangzhou have become rebels themselves, so we have to use the loyal officials of Liangzhou and the people of Guanzhong to stop them.
Youzhou has the largest number of people, but they can hardly protect themselves. They are at the center of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. The land they lost last year was desolate and they have not recovered yet. When Huangfu Song went to Pingliang Prefecture, he also recruited some cavalry from Youzhou. Now the three border states have problems protecting themselves, so they don't have the manpower to go on an expedition to the Hetao area to fight a few small Southern Xiongnu tribes.
The food in Luoyang was also used up in the expedition of the five battalions of the Northern Army last year. He did not have the ability to launch a new expedition and could only passively defend himself for now.
When the third domino, the Southern Xiongnu, collapsed, the fourth domino was not far away.
The Mandate of the Han Dynasty is indeed coming to an end. The Huns you nurtured rebelled in public, the highest commander of the Han army stationed in the Huns died inexplicably, the five Han battalions stationed in the Huns were detained and could not be rescued, and things like slapping you in the face in public happened one after another. As a result, the emperor can't even fart, and his authority is almost gone.
As a result, Liu Hong was helpless and could only sulk in Luoyang - the emperor is like this, why should we worry or be afraid? The Mandate of Heaven has ended! The Han Dynasty is about to fall!
March 15th, the second year of Photosynthesis.
Liu Zhuang went to Yangqu to marry Guo Huai on the auspicious date given by the Guo family, bringing a large amount of betrothal gifts. However, as soon as he arrived in Yangqu, he heard another piece of bad news. The fourth domino of the empire's collapse also collapsed.
A branch of the Xianbei after the split: The Yuwen Xianbei who had wreaked havoc in the Yunzhong area went south to plunder and had already crossed the upper horizontal line of the Yellow River's bend and entered the territory of the Southern Xiongnu.
However, the Great Khan of the Southern Xiongnu, who had actively resisted the Xianbei in the past, did not react to this. He explained in the memorial that in recent years, Your Majesty had transferred too many Blood Axe Orcs to fight in Han areas, and we were short of manpower, which led to the Yuwen Xianbei discovering loopholes in the defense line and easily moving south.
Now, this group of Xianbei looting troops passed through the entire Hetao defense zone of the Southern Xiongnu easily without losing a single soldier, as if they were strolling in the garden, and went directly into Xihe and Taiyuan counties along the old land of Shangjun that was burned by the Qiang people. The next one was Hedong.
"damn it……"
Liu Zhuang was shocked when he heard the news. On such a happy day, he couldn't even get married. The Southern Xiongnu Khan must have done it on purpose! He first asked several small Xiongnu tribes under his command to declare independence to test the Han emperor's reaction.
As a result, when he found that the Han emperor had no reaction, he deliberately let the Xianbei people pass through his defense zone and let these Xianbei people directly enter the heartland of the Han Dynasty to further test the current Han Dynasty. How much combat power did they still have? ? ?
If Yuwen Xianbei were defeated in Xihe and Taiyuan counties, it would prove that the Han Dynasty is a dying insect. I will just wait and see. Anyway, it is the Xianbei people who will die, not me, the Green-skinned Blood Axe.
If Yuwen Xianbei looted Xihe and Taiyuan counties and returned victorious, exposing the weakness of the Han Dynasty, then it would really only be a matter of time before the entire Southern Xiongnu orcs became independent and betrayed.
Chapter 125: Harmony of Music and Music
March 16, the second year of Zhongping
The entire Bingzhou and Hedong areas were shrouded in the shadow of war. Guo Yu also knew that the situation was urgent, so he held the wedding of the two as quickly as possible.
The guests attending the wedding of Liu Zhuang and Guo Huai were all top families from Bingzhou. The Bingzhou families had been intermarrying with each other for generations and had formed an extremely large network of interests. At this moment, they also took advantage of the marriage to make friends with Liu Zhuang, the rising star, and treated Liu Zhuang as one of their own, incorporating him into this huge network of interests.
Not only that, they also did the same as the Hedong noble families, giving huge amounts of money, food, and war horses in the name of gifts, and then recommended a group of talented people from their own family, hoping that they could use their power as prefects to promote them.
Liu Zhuang looked at the list. After Bingzhou experienced a series of great disasters, including the Xianbei invasion from the south, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the fall of Shangjun, there are now three super families left, namely the Yangqu Guo family, the Jinyang Wang family, and the Qixian Wang family. There are two Wangs and one Guo. It is difficult to verify whether the two heads of the Wang family are related by blood. Anyway, the two heads of the Wang family call each other brothers.
The Guo family has also been intermarrying with the two kings for generations. In this generation, Guo Huai's younger brother married the daughter of the Wang family of Qi County. According to seniority, she is the niece of Wang Yun. The three top families in Bingzhou have long been blood relatives.
So if that’s the case, Wang Yun is the uncle of his wife’s younger brother’s wife, so I should call him… Forget it, the generations are too confusing to figure out.
And today, I am also a member of this interest group.
Liu Zhuang regarded it as a token of his surrender, and immediately promoted all the family members recommended by the two Wangs and one Guo to be his own clerks, as well as civil servants such as the chief clerk in the army, and brought them back to Hedong to strengthen the administrative team. He did not have any other choice, as the others could not even read and write. No matter what their abilities were, at least they could read and write.
Because of Guo Huai, these people all became his relatives. Among them, one person's name is worth noting: Wang Ling, who is the sister of Guo Huai's younger brother's wife and the niece of Wang Yun.
This is also a character. Although she is very young now, she will be the commander-in-chief of the Huainan Military Region of Cao Wei in the future and will be promoted to the rank of Grand Marshal. Although she was defeated by Sima Yi in the end, she is still very capable and can fill the extremely scarce administrative talent gap.
After Jia Xu, he now had Wang Ling, a little girl with outstanding future abilities, and a group of relatives from aristocratic families who had been reading and writing since childhood.
Surrounded by Mrs. Guo and many guests, Liu Zhuang and Guo Huai got married at the speed of light. After the ceremony ended at noon, he immediately took Guo Huai, who was wearing gold and silver jewelry and a phoenix crown and bridal robe, as well as a dowry of one thousand war horses given by his father-in-law Guo Wei, as well as horses, money and food given by various noble families, and the sons of the nobles who were happy to be officials in Hedong, and boarded the river boat that had been prepared long ago. He rushed south along the Fen River and returned to Hedong to reorganize the army and prepare for war with the invading Yuwen Xianbei.
The situation on the Yellow River defense line had become so urgent that the wedding night could only be spent on the boat.
"Don't worry, Yan Sheng. The Yellow River is very dangerous along the Luliang Mountains. The Yuwen Xianbei should land in the closer Xihe County to establish a supply station and transfer point, and then carry out the next round of looting. They will not go thousands of miles south and land at Longmen Ferry in the east of the river. If that happens, the entire tribe will not be able to escape if something goes wrong.
If the Yuwen Xianbei land in Xihe County, they will have to break through the impregnable Jiexiu City before they can attack Hedong, which you manage. This city is under the charge of the Taiyuan governor, so it will be fine. "
Inside the cabin, Guo Huai slowly lifted her bright red veil embroidered with golden patterns. Countless gorgeous tassels in gold and red half-covered her elegant face that was so beautiful that it was beyond description after her heavy makeup. She comforted the worried Liu Zhuang.
"It's only 800 miles from Taiyuan to Anyi. If we sail down the Fen River, we can reach Anyi in two days. We will definitely be able to return to Anyi before the Xianbei and prepare our troops."
