Northern Dynasties

Chapter 448
If a regime wants to grow stronger, it needs to acquire as much territory and population as possible.But the key to its survival lies in whether it can effectively obtain resources on these lands and populations.

Since the Mutiny of the Six Towns, the northern land has been surging. There are many powerful military leaders who can separate one side and even take over the center, but there are very few who can maintain their power for a long time. Gao Huan and Yu Wentai are the best among them.

The reason why the two of them can stand out is not because they have the most troops, but because they have made full use of their own historical opportunities and seized the opportunity to transform the forces they have from destroyers to defenders of order, rather than blindly Burning, killing, looting, and fishing.

Although Yu Wentai is a hegemonic official, he can't break some rules wantonly, because breaking the rules is shaking the foundation of his rule.

So even though he was trapped by money and food, and knew that the local tyrants in Kansai must have a lot of food and supplies in their hands, he didn't dare to directly send troops to plunder.Especially now that there are a large number of powerful tribes from Guanlong flooding the Chinese and foreign armies, conscripting their soldiers to rob them of food is tantamount to playing with fire.

Not long after the Battle of Mangshan in the Ninth Year of Datong, Yu Wentai used a reward to collect the manpower and material resources mastered by the Kansai tyrants.

At that time, he was indeed in a desperate situation and urgently needed to replenish his strength, and the Kansai powerhouses had no other choice.There are few eggs under the overturned nest. If he is defeated and wiped out by Gao Huan, then these Kansai tyrants will generally suffer.

Therefore, at that time, everyone had the consciousness and atmosphere of sharing the same hatred and overcoming the difficulties together, and quickly brought the situation back from the precarious state.

But today, with the victory of the Battle of Yubi, it means that the hard work and courage in the past few years have had a very considerable return. Although this result is gratifying, it also involves the redistribution of some rights and interests.

Under such circumstances, Yu Wentai must be more careful in governing, and need to try to avoid making these Guanlong powerful people feel the sense of deprivation and loss.

Therefore, although Li Tai's strategy is good, the key point is how to implement it.It is necessary to ensure that the masses will not feel conflicted and disgusted, and to quickly gather a considerable amount of materials in a short period of time. These three goals are indispensable.

Of course, Wang Zizhi couldn't answer Daxingtai's question.When Li Tai left, he just explained this idea to them, and ordered them to sort out the relevant county and county records, as a reference for the next step.

In other words, there was still nothing left to say about the matter itself, so they did not report it.It was just seeing Daxingtai's irritable and unfriendly attitude, Wang Zizhi had no choice but to speak out to deal with the interrogation before him.

Knowing this plan, Yu Wentai became more and more eager to find out how feasible it is. When the relevant documents of Xizhi Hall were sent here, he immediately ordered the officials in the hall to join in and help, take stock. Let's take a look at the surplus materials that can be used for sale and the amount of mountains, rivers and rivers that can be rented in the various states in the pass.

These matters are trivial and complicated, but fortunately, when Su Chuo was alive, he had already established a fairly strict and comprehensive management system for records and archives for the Taiwan government, which also greatly reduced the energy consumed by the officials in collecting relevant materials. with time.

Naturally, Yu Wentai didn't have to bury his head in the files, he first finished dealing with the other piles of desk affairs, and then ordered Li Tai to be called back to the house as soon as possible tomorrow morning, and then went to the inner room of the straight hall to rest on the couch.

As the dawn clock strikes, a new day arrives.After yesterday's martial arts awards and bonfire barbecue, today's barracks is also filled with a relaxed and joyful atmosphere.

But relaxation does not mean indulgence. With the sound of drums in the Chinese army tents, all the soldiers walked out of the tents and lined up neatly among the camps to go to the school grounds. Disbanded for dinner.

Although many middle and high-ranking generals were absent from this day's drill, the barracks was still in order today, and there were no disturbances.

This made Li Tai especially satisfied. The reason why he delayed the next step until today was also to see how irreplaceable those generals were in the army.

If the operations would be in a mess without those supervisors ordering and dispatching, then he would have to hold his nose and invite people in even if he felt upset.But now it seems that without Butcher Zhang, he would not eat mixed-haired pigs, so what the hell is there to be afraid of.

Of course, the well-trained performance of these battalions has nothing to do with these superintendents.In the past, the six armies of the Overlord Mansion were mainly led by a group of generals such as Li Bi and Ji Hui, who were in charge of intensive training and drills. Today's Chinese and foreign military formations were gradually formed in the second half of last year. A few months too early.

The contradiction between Han and Hu in the Western Wei Dynasty may not be as obvious and irreconcilable as in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but few of these Xianbei generals would be friendly to the new army, which is mainly composed of Kanxi children.Therefore, although they entered the army several months earlier than Li Tai, they did not build a solid and intimate relationship between them.

Of course, in today's battalion, there must be those generals of the generals. Li Tai was also ready to kill chickens and monkeys in order to establish his prestige after his kindness yesterday, but those generals are still quite clever. Dare to be the first bird to disrupt the order in the camp.

After visiting the school grounds to watch the morning exercise, Li Taizheng planned to go to the Taifu to complain after breakfast, but when he returned the account, he was told that the envoy of the Taifu had arrived outside the gate as early as dawn.

After hearing this, he couldn't help being a little dumbfounded. While ordering to quickly invite the envoys from the Taifu, he asked scoldingly, "Why didn't you bring people in first?"

"These Taiwanese envoys don't know the password!"

Hearing the voice of questioning, the soldier guarding the gate of the camp immediately replied plausibly.

Li Tai was speechless after hearing the words, and patted the soldier commander on the shoulder to show his appreciation, then turned his head and whispered to Zhang Shinu not to assign this guy to be responsible for this kind of task of guarding the gate and seeing him off again.

Zhang Shinu was also a little speechless when he heard this. It was obviously the owner himself who asked to appoint a person with strong principles and who obeyed orders. Why is he using someone who is not human now?

Not to mention their own plans, the Taifu envoy who had been blocked outside the camp gate for more than an hour was already sweating profusely at the moment, and was finally released. He rushed in from the camp, and when he entered the account and saw Li Tai who was waiting to eat, he hurriedly said: "Li Kai's mansion, please suspend eating, Daxingtai's urgent order is called, please return to the city quickly and come to the mansion to see Daxing tower!"

Seeing that the envoy's expression and tone were so hasty, Li Tai didn't dare to neglect, put down his cup and chopsticks in a hurry, got up and entered the account, and changed into a robe. Those soldier talismans then got on their horses and left the camp under the frequent urging of the messenger, and went straight to Huazhou City.

As Li Tai rode out of the camp, Yu Wenhu had arranged for his eyes and ears to rush to Bingcheng to report.

When Yu Wenhu learned of Li Tai's whereabouts, his face darkened abruptly, and his tone became low and resentful: "Although I was rude yesterday, it was because of unknown reasons. I will stay here all night, and I won't leave." After revealing the sincerity of his apology, Li Boshan didn't come to see me, but went straight into the city, it seems that he has no intention of being kind!"

The officers and generals who accompanied Yuwen Huku and guarding here were all shattered when they heard this, and they said worriedly: "Zhong Shangong, is Li Dadu going to sue us at the Taifu..."

Yu Wenhu was in an extremely bad mood at the moment, and he couldn't care less about appeasing everyone, so he exchanged glances with Lie Fugui and others, and immediately said: "No matter where Li Boshan goes, things can't continue to be deadlocked like this. I will First go back to the mansion and report to the Lord, if you don’t know what is right and what is wrong, if you don’t know what is right and wrong, the Lord is good at controlling the crowd, and you will never listen to Li Boshan alone and ignore the confession of certain generals!"

Yu Wenhu felt that it was hard to bear the indignation, and he didn't want to get too stiff with Li Tai from the beginning to the end. Even if he hosted a banquet for his colleagues on the day Li Tai took office, in his opinion, it was just a harmless little joke, but now Li Tai He has won a prize and made him feel a little embarrassed, but he still doesn't let him go.

Thinking back to what the Yuchijiong brothers said to Li Tai before, I didn't take it seriously at that time, and felt more and more angry in my heart.That being the case, then they are at odds with each other in the Governor's Mansion of the Rear Army!
With this resentment in mind, Yu Wenhu gave Chilie Fugui another look, signaling him to stay here to appease the hearts of the entire group of lovers, as long as they can speak out in unison, it doesn't matter what is right or wrong.

So Yu Wenhu also followed Li Tai, and led his followers to leave the military city and return to Taifu.

After Li Tai arrived in front of the mansion, he was ushered into the mansion by his subordinates who had already been waiting here, and while on the way, he gave a brief account of what happened in the mansion yesterday.

Li Tai was shocked when he heard this, and it turned out that it was because of the money shortage, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.On the way back to the city, the emissary of the government was also vague. Li Tai thought that Yu Wentai knew about the conflict between him and Yu Wenhu and wanted to mediate it.But since he has a serious business to rely on himself, he will naturally have no psychological burden to sue later.

He didn't worry about whether doing so would leave an impression of being arrogant, at least he was really serious about doing things.

On the contrary, Yu Wenhu, a guy who came from the back door, made collusion to shake his prestige in the army at the beginning of his tenure. Even if Yu Wentai asked him to do this, he really didn't know how to keep a low profile and act too hastily.

With this in mind, Li Tai strode towards the straight hall.He didn't think too much about the internal affairs question that Yu Wentai was going to ask next. Anyway, as long as this policy can be passed and implemented, he will be the one who will take over the offer.

(End of this chapter)