Northern Dynasties

Chapter 183 Kansai Bandits
In the selection process in Shangyuan Village, Xiangyong, who was in his early [-]s, was finally selected as Li Tai's new part.

These [-] people were tall, not to mention that most of them were able to open a bow of three stones and carry a hundred catties of weight. They were martial artists in Guanzhong, and they all had a little experience in the army.The only problem is that there are not many people who are really skilled in riding, and only thirty or forty people can reach the standard of riding and shooting.

After all, raising horses is still a very extravagant behavior for ordinary people in the pass.Even Liu Sanzhu, an old pawn who had participated in the Battle of Shayuan and followed Li Tai into the customs, was completely ignorant of riding skills, let alone these new pawns who had just been recruited.

But this is not a big problem. These new soldiers need to be drilled before they can go to battle to kill the enemy.

The training of the new recruits can be handed over to the old soldiers that He Basheng left for Li Tai.Most of these old soldiers are injured and sick, and it is difficult to put on armor to go into battle again. However, they still have military experience in the past, and they are not competent for heavy physical labor.

Some of the more than [-] township braves are wealthy and powerful households, some are landless people, and some are from ordinary households.However, Director Yuwen and the magistrates are here, so they can directly open the door for convenience, which saves the trouble of negotiating again.

In addition to the difference in the source of troops and organizational forms, there is another important difference between the Xiangtuan and the official armed forces such as the Imperial Guard and the Sixth Army. The Imperial Guard and the Sixth Army are completely full-time professional soldiers. In addition to training and In addition to combat, part-time production is also required.

The tyrannical private song armament is between the two, and the armored horse equipment and supplies need to be raised by themselves.The mighty military leaders are different in wealth and frugality, and the fighting and organizational capabilities of the trilogy are also different. The powerful military leaders' private songs are even far stronger than the regular six armies.

No matter what the identities of these newly recruited Xiangyong were before, from now on, they and their families have become Li Tai's part.

Because of the nature of such a private army, the imperial court and prefectures and counties generally reject powerful private equity households, because it will cause the loss of a large number of tax units.But I have to accept this phenomenon. In the final analysis, people are still poor and short-sighted, because the government's finances simply cannot support so many full-time troops.

The development of the Fubing system is divided into several stages. From the ninth year of Datong, it mainly targeted Guan Longhaoyou, and recruited these powerful tribal private troops.

Yu Wentai wanted to play big this year, and expanded the recruitment scale of the township group, but he almost collapsed in the end.With the administrative and organizational capabilities of the Bafu, it is simply impossible to maintain such a large-scale expansion of troops.Therefore, the next policy will definitely return to the use of tyrants as the expropriation unit, and the power will be delegated to maintain the scale of the armed forces.

Therefore, the early Fubing was made up of the private songs of powerful military leaders, large and small. When the Fubing system was formed in the last years of the Datong, Yu Wentai bestowed the surname Hu, and at the same time stipulated that the Fubing should change their surname to the general’s surname. Acknowledge the nature of Fubing's private songs and win over the middle-level generals of Fubing, so as to strengthen the control of Fubing.

Many people in later generations are curious about why the powerful Guanlong can bear to abandon their ancestral surnames and accept the surname Hu, because the premise of normalizing private songs is to accept the surname given.When most people accept this system, even some noises will be eliminated as unstable factors that destroy harmony.

Therefore, giving the surname Hu has nothing to do with Huhua or Sinicization, but a distribution of military resources centered on Yuwentai and other eight-pillar countries. The weak will have something to rely on and will not be annexed by the powerful.

The characteristic of Fubing in this period is that it has the dual nature of the regular military force of the imperial court and the private songs of the generals. The support of the army is shared by all members of this system, and the greater the power, the greater the responsibility.

The Six Pillars Kingdom is the supreme commander of the army, so there is a military support system provided by the six families.The main task of the Fubing during this period was still fighting. Although they also participated in the Suwei, it mainly depends on the relationship between the generals of the Fubing and the emperor.

This situation will continue until the period of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when the government soldiers were changed to servants, and the government soldiers and permanent guards were institutionalized. , The private song nature of Fubing gradually faded.

The development of Li Tai's power can be regarded as a typical case in the early days of Fubing.Although he was highly awarded the position of governor of the metropolis, the imperial court and the overlord did not give him a soldier. All the soldiers, equipment and support had to be raised by themselves.

So how much power he, the governor, can hold depends on how much energy he has.Any orders from the Tyrant Mansion are only aimed at him. He himself is a combat unit, and his parts are only subordinate to him.

Director Yuwen stayed in Shangyuan for a long time before leaving and returning to Huazhou City, while the envoys from the counties and counties stayed and discussed with Li Tai the details of the bandit suppression.

More than [-] new recruits still need to be practiced, Li Tai can use only those old recruits right now.

When he went to northern Shaanxi before, there were about [-] parts, but when he returned, there were only more than [-] people left. More than a hundred people.

Although the number is not large, due to their excellent armored horses and strong mobility, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.Except for the kind of big gangsters who have tens of thousands of people and have power across states and counties, ordinary bandits are always pinched.

Of course, if there were such big bandits, Li Tai would not need to take action. The imperial court would arrange for the conquest, and the captured personnel and materials would be wealth.

These counties and counties invited Li Tai to enter the country to suppress the bandits, and they were naturally responsible for the military supplies.

However, based on the idea that the new business has just started and needs gifts from guests, Li Tai did not ask for too high a reward, and only asked the county to provide some horse materials and information about the bandits. right.

This kind of condition can be said to be very generous. When Li Tai proposed it, he was immediately praised by the envoys from the counties present.

To be honest, if possible, who would want bandits to run rampant in their own territory?
However, bandits who have existed for a long time are generally involved with wealthy families in the territory, and the township regiments often return without success when they go out to suppress them.It is also a tacit understanding in the village that the tyrants support the bandits and respect themselves.

With the existence of bandits, county and county officials need to rely on the power of big families and need to be more polite.The intrusion of bandits made the people's livelihood extremely bad, and intensified the dependence of ordinary villagers on the wealthy and wealthy.

Although there are also some army heads who send food to guard in the local area, this part of the armed forces is not under the jurisdiction of the county and county, and the county and county have no obligation to support them.If you want to use it, you can send money, food and supplies first, and discuss how much supplies can be exchanged for one head.

Some military leaders who are starved of food will take the initiative to attack the bandits.But after the fight is over, you will stay in the county government office, and you will have to bear the expenses of my marching and fighting!
So sometimes, it's not that the county officials don't want to eliminate the bandits in the country, but they can't.

As long as the banditry is not too much, they don't even dare to report it. If the Taiwan government really wants to send thousands of people into the country to clean it up, even if all the bandits are killed, the treasury will be empty.It's really hard to say who is a soldier and who is a bandit under such circumstances.

But now that Li Tai, the Juan Wang, has entered the arena, the cost of suppressing bandits has been greatly reduced, and the emissaries of these counties and counties have lost a lot of scruples.

Seeing this scene of enthusiastic crowds, Li Tai couldn't help but be surprised. Is the banditry in the customs already so serious?It's hard to believe that you can still hold on!Are you really asking me to suppress the bandits, or are you trying to use me as a knife to wipe out dissidents?
Business is too good to be troublesome, after all, right now Li Tai only has more than [-] people to dispatch, and most of them have just experienced the fierce guerrilla warfare in northern Shaanxi, and they are still waiting for soldiers to recuperate.

So he put forward several conditions, stipulating that the first batch of bandits to be suppressed must have a fixed range of activities, within a hundred miles of the Luoshui River Basin, and must have convincing evidence of crimes, with actual records of invading counties and cities.

If it is really the kind of rogue who commits crimes and has no fixed whereabouts, it will be a waste of time to track them down. If they escape to counties and counties that have no agreement with each other to suppress bandits, it will be troublesome to argue.

Not to mention that the county and county officials took revenge privately, and they were classified as bandits only because the local tyrants refused to obey the rules. After they did it, they found out that it was a false accusation.What's more, I plan to do this along the Luoshui River. If everyone does this, it will be a mess, and the country will not be the country!

With such a few limiting conditions, the following scene will no longer be chaotic. Everyone chooses their own, and then judges by the masses, and finally selects four gangsters who are recognized as serious disasters.

Li Tai had a little understanding of the situation of these gangsters, and couldn't help but lament that the situation in Kansai is indeed serious.

The longest existing road has been active for decades. It has existed since the time when the ugly slaves rebelled in Kansai. It was first active in the southwest of Wonju, and it has gradually come to the southeast in recent years. Killed in Nanbaishui County in the Guanzhong Plain, surrounded the county town several times, and looted without counting.

Another bandit leader even served as a state and county official in the early years of the Datong. Because he refused to obey the order of the hegemony, he became a bandit and controlled an area to set up county control.

Li Tai made an appointment with the envoys of these counties and counties on the date of dispatching troops to suppress the bandits, and the conversation was not ended until the villagers came to report a visitor.

He had just walked out of the middle hall here, when a few phoenixes came forward with a tense face, but he began to cry: "It's because I'm not good at something, that my brother hates me, that's why I called someone else to teach me to drive me away." go out?"

Li Tai was puzzled when he heard this, patted his head and frowned and asked, "Where did you hear these evil words?"

"Do you still need to listen to others? I have seen that someone came into the school to inquire about things, and asked brother what do you teach!"

When Shuofeng said this, his tone turned into anger: "I only thought that I have a deep friendship with you, brother, but I didn't expect that just because I can no longer visit Miss Miaoyin for you, you will choose someone else to take my seat. !"

(End of this chapter)