Northern Dynasties

Chapter 570 Prosperity
In mid-May, the front of Zhao Gang, who returned to Henan to gather his troops, arrived in Jingzhou. The military, civilian, Han and barbarian population totaled more than [-], and most of them stayed in Luyang to help transport grain and grass to Yingchuan. It would take some time before they could come south. entry.

At the same time, this team also brought the latest information on the movement of the Eastern Wei army, which was very bad news.Last month, General Gao Cheng of the Eastern Wei Dynasty led the country's elite troops to patrol the south. They crossed the Yellow River from Hulao and arrived in Luoyang. The rescued Jiuqu City in Yiyang was attacked by the enemy fiercely, and Shi Peikuan, the same-track defense chief who was stationed here, was taken away by the enemy.

In addition, Kongcheng and Fuliucheng in the Yishui River Basin were also captured by the enemy successively.Li Yisun, the lord of the city who was stationed here, lost all his troops and escaped from the siege. He was picked up by the barbarian tribes in the mountains and fields of Yixi, and he is still missing.

After hearing these depressing military situations, Li Tai also felt quite complicated.He understood that the Eastern Wei Dynasty was planning to remove the strongholds around Yingchuan first, leaving them isolated and helpless, and then concentrate their forces to attack Yingchuan.

But even if it is seen through, there is no clever way to deal with it. If you really want to stop the enemy's tactical arrangement, it is nothing more than a deadly attack on one target after another. In the end, the overall national strength is still the fight.

Li Tai has already positioned himself as a spectator, so he no longer thinks about it, but concentrates on dealing with the affairs within his own jurisdiction.

According to the situation reported by General Zhao Gang, the number of people who can reach Jingzhou in this batch plus the next batch is about 2 to several thousand. If there is time to organize the third batch, the number should be even more. Reached more than [-] people.

Of course, it is impossible to have so many people in the huge Henan Province, but there are only so many people who can be mobilized in a hurry. This also shows that Wang Sizheng's Henan Daoxingtai's ruling foundation in Henan is weak.

Although the situation was not as expected, Li Tai didn't care too much about it. He also knew that it was absolutely impossible to dispatch too many people across regions to Jingzhou in a short period of time. Such a harvest was considered pretty good.

These Henan people who arrived in Jingzhou were basically impoverished people with no savings. They arrived in Jingzhou with the meager rations they received in Yingchuan and Luyang. The immature grain and shrub crops in the fields are all green. If there were not troops along the way to respond and restrain them, I'm afraid they would have been unable to resist rushing into the fields to pick their fill.

Fortunately, it is not the first time that the state government has received people from entering the country. It is not a loss of preparation. A food distribution point is set up at intervals on the road to provide them with rations, and these people are divided and resettled between counties and counties. .

Since the state capital has just experienced water conservancy expansion at the beginning of the year and a large increase in farm work, coupled with the thorough and meticulous registration and resettlement of these immigrants, the living environments of the locals and the newcomers are basically staggered, so that they can live in peace and avoid problems. A large number of conflicts between natives and tourists have arisen.

As May drew to a close, Zhao Gang personally led the second batch of immigrants from Henan to Jingzhou, and also brought the latest news: the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty had arrived in Yingchuan. Although its vanguard was defeated by Wang Sizheng's initiative, its army The main force did not retreat, but besieged Yingchuan, making Yingchuan completely lost the way to communicate with the outside world.

However, there is also good news. Due to the large amount of food being transported to Yingchuan City recently, many powerful forces in the surrounding towns have seen it and attached themselves to Yingchuan one after another.Therefore, before Yingchuan was surrounded this time, a large number of soldiers and civilians gathered in the city.

But thinking of how much power and price the Eastern Wei Dynasty put in to capture Yingchuan, Li Tai didn't know if the increase in the number of soldiers and civilians in the city was good news.Under the siege of almost the whole country in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, even if the army and civilians in Yingchuan City doubled, it seemed of little significance.

However, Wang Sizheng, as the top city defense master in the world, may have an even more amazing performance when he has more personnel resources. Li Tai is also looking forward to this in his heart.

Zhao Gang brought more than [-] people this time, and quite a few of them were young and strong. They were young laborers who were attracted by food and were isolated outside Yingchuan City by the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Instead of staying in Luyang, it is better to go south to Jingzhou.

Another thing that surprised Li Tai was that there were nearly a thousand households of artisans in this batch of immigrants.

These craftsmen were originally organized and accumulated by Hou Jing when he was in Henan Province, but they were not taken away with the army in time, and they were left in Zhuzhou County of Henan Province and were taken over by Wang Sizheng.Now that Yingchuan is about to encounter a military disaster, Wang Sizheng certainly has no way to organize them for production, so he simply packed them up and sent them out.

After Li Tai learned of this situation, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. As expected, good people get good rewards.If he hadn't supported Wang Sizheng with so much military rations in time, he probably wouldn't have gotten the manpower of these craftsmen.

The Mianbei area is waiting for prosperity, and there is an extreme shortage of manpower, let alone the higher-level craftsman talents.

Li Tai originally planned to start building workshops with the arrival of summer and autumn and the harvest in the fields, relying on the unique natural resources of the Nanyang Basin to forge iron and forge soldiers and continue to grow his strength.The arrival of these craftsmen can be said to have greatly increased the relevant talent pool.

Therefore, for these craftsmen, he did not randomly place them in the countryside, but moved them to a new city on the west bank of the Feishui River, and let them do some simple fortification work under the organization of the state capital, and wait until autumn and winter. The end of farming will vigorously promote the development of handicrafts.

As for Zhao Gang, Li Tai also has important tasks to arrange.

In Mianbei, Han and barbarians are mixed, and the living habits and customs of the barbarians are very different from those of the Han people. Li Tai has neither the experience nor the patience to integrate the barbarians, so after he entered the country, he repeatedly promoted governance and caused many barbarians in the territory to flee.Except for a few barbarian chiefs, such as Huan Shuzu, who are the focus of attention, other barbarian chiefs have less interaction with the state capital, and their attitudes have become cold and alienated.

No matter how strong Li Tai's national complex is, it is undeniable that the barbarians are an important folk force between Han, Mian, Jianghuai and Huaihe.Although they are not highly organized, once they get together, they will have the powerful energy to shake the local military and government.

What you are not proficient in, then leave it to professionals.Zhao Gang's experience in dealing with barbarians can be said to be rich, and he is also very experienced in integrating and citing barbarian forces, so Li Tai intends to entrust Zhao Gang with all the affairs of negotiating and unifying the barbarians in and around Jingzhou.

"The barbarians seem to be indifferent, but in fact they have their own likes and dislikes and the balance of pros and cons. Their disciples may not be good at farming and production, but they are not lacking in lightness, sharpness and courage. If they are used well, it is indeed a considerable the power of."

Hearing that what Li Tai arranged for him was exactly what he was good at, Zhao Gang nodded and agreed, and when he heard that Li Tai was worried about the barbarians wandering around in the territory, he said with a smile.

"Since the matter is entrusted to Zhao Cheqi, I don't have to worry about it. Whether to intimidate or lure, it is up to Zhao Cheqi to control it. If you need something, you can go to the government to get it. If you need to use troops, I will do it!"

Li Tai gave Zhao Gang full autonomy, and hoped that Zhao Gang could sort out a considerable barbarian force as soon as possible, so that he could have more capital to participate in the next chaos in the world.

Everything in Jingzhou is well-organized and developing rapidly, and has not been affected by changes in the external situation.But other places are not so lucky. Although drastic changes have not yet occurred, many signs have gradually begun to emerge.

Li Tai can arrange his development plan in an orderly manner by predicting the situation, but other people in the current situation need to judge the direction that is beneficial to them according to the step-by-step development of the situation and respond accordingly.

In this process, some choices are right and some are wrong.But at the moment when the parties make a choice, there is no right or wrong. Only when the result is revealed, are they either happy or regretful. Know.

With Hou Jing's army defeated and fled south in a hurry, the drama of the Three Kingdoms melee staged by him seems to have come to an end.

Hou Jing also changed from a man of the day who could determine the general situation of the world based on his affiliation with one person, to a degenerate dog who was trapped in Shouyang, Huainan, lingering on the pity of Emperor Liang, and no longer had the energy to influence the direction of the situation.

At least in the eyes of the Nanliang King and some of his courtiers, they completely forgot their previous schemes, ignored the begging of Hou Jing, a defeated general, and actively sent envoys to negotiate peace with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, trying to restore Huaibei's defeat internally and externally. adverse effects.

The old Bodhisattva has been a vegetarian and worshiped the Buddha all his life, but he still can't detect the karma of cause and effect. He doesn't know that the bane he planted and watered with care has sprouted and is about to ripen!

(End of this chapter)