A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 320
Dragon Boat Festival just passed.

The mobilization order for war has been issued with a fast horse.

Lingzhou quickly mobilized.

Not only the five commanding military mansions in Lingzhou have received mobilization orders, but also the local and inland mansions stationed in Lingzhou have also received military orders.

There are also local united soldiers and Fan soldiers near the city.

"Since the founding of Lingzhou, we have set up a total of five commanding military mansions, with a total of 640 soldiers. Yanzhou also set up a mansion before."

These soldiers of Lingzhou Prefecture are also the cornerstone of Lingwu. The selected ones are originally the families of powerful landlords, and they are all awarded a hundred acres of military land after they are selected.

However, Lingzhou has been under a lot of military pressure in recent years, so the local government soldiers in Lingzhou basically do not go to Chang'an, but are divided into five divisions to guard the fortress.

There are probably [-] soldiers in the town, but Lingzhou is the front line, and [-] frontier soldiers are not enough, so Lingzhou has about [-] soldiers from the interior for a long time, from Guanzhong, Longyou, and even Shannan, Henan, etc. Deployed to be on duty.

"Originally, the soldiers in the garrison were on duty in rotation, and the rotation period was changed roughly once a year. However, in the past few years, the Turks have repeatedly invaded on a large scale, so the frontier army was not allowed to postpone the rotation, and changed to a three-year rotation, but the three-year period expired and failed. In other words, some frontier troops are actually transferred from the mainland, and they have been defending for five years and have not returned home."

It was agreed to be on duty for one year, but after five years, I couldn't go home. I guess everyone would collapse.

So there have been cases of soldiers fleeing in Lingzhou before.

Later, Li Daozong served as the governor, and strengthened the treatment of the frontier soldiers here, mainly to let them participate in the smuggling trade, etc., and benefit from it.

Slave hunting, salt selling, horse selling, and even private forging, etc., the frontier soldiers, government soldiers, unity, and the city, plus officials, and even children, all shared the benefits.

Li Daozong was amazing. Originally, Lingzhou was very unstable at that time. Soldiers ran away from time to time, and the logistics and supplies were not stable.

But later, under the leadership of Li Daozong, they were self-reliant, and they started to get rich one by one. From the governor, to joining the army, to commanding the army, school lieutenants, and even ordinary frontier soldiers, they had a stable income, and everyone no longer rushed. go home.

So even if one year changes to three years, and three years changes to five years, the morale of the soldiers in Lingzhou is quite stable. It all stems from this. They eat and drink here, and even make a lot of money, so why rush home? .

Although people can't go home, then send money home.

I can't go home to visit relatives, so I can ask my wife and children to visit and reunite.

It was precisely because of these discoveries that Wu Huaiyu discovered that Lingzhou had a tendency to become a feudal town.

The soldiers here in Lingzhou originally consisted of a complex and diverse composition, including local soldiers serving as soldiers, inland rotating soldiers, local united soldiers, city-side soldiers, etc., but they turned out to be a very harmonious group. The distinction between Han people and Hu people.

It is common interests that bind them together.

The government soldiers transferred from the mainland have not changed defenses for a long time, but it has made them more localized and have a tacit understanding.

"It's a hidden danger."

Yang Gongren frowned after hearing Wu Huaiyu's confession.

The combination of local tycoons and these military groups is terrifying. Even if there is no chaos now, it does not mean that there will be no chaos in the future.

"I suggest taking advantage of the gathering of soldiers from other prefectures to mobilize and gather these soldiers in the name of Xia Liang's expedition, and then make some arrangements."

"specific?"

"First send the [-] soldiers from the mainland to defend, give them rewards and subsidies, and end their defense. They should have rotated back to rest a long time ago,"

"I have already asked the saint for an order to transfer new soldiers from the mainland to change defense."

There were more than [-] military mansions all over the world in the Tang Dynasty, with a total of more than [-] mansion soldiers, of which the Guanzhong area accounted for half.

Although Lingyan is also in Guanzhong, it belongs to the outer Fortress. Before that, there were only five commanding mansions, and Yanzhou had only one mansion.

Based on the household registration in Guanzhong at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, there was basically one mansion soldier per household at that time, but in fact, at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the household registration was greatly reduced, but the actual population did not decrease so much, it was just powerful The landlord took the opportunity to turn many refugees into tenants and even slaves without household registration.

Just like the official household registration in Lingzhou before, there were only a few thousand households, but there were more than 4000 Fubing, basically one household per household.

In fact, Lingzhou is on the south of the Yangtze River, with a prosperous business, a large population, and a well-developed agriculture.

Just as there are six thousand in the Tutuan, there are four thousand in the city.

This is all false household registration.

"Now that these frontier troops are being rotated, are they willing to go back?"

"A lot of people came thousands of miles away from their hometowns to guard the border. It was a good year, but it turned out that they couldn't be rotated for three to five years. I believe that the vast majority of people still want to go home. It's just that they couldn't go back because of special circumstances. I got some benefits, so I stayed.

To let them go back now, the key is to give compensation. "

"Before we copied Peng Han and others, we also obtained a large amount of money and silk, and the Lingzhou government treasury is quite full. We can directly provide money and food rewards to subsidize everyone."

Wu Huaiyu had already figured out the subsidy plan. Based on the time he was stationed in Lingzhou, he would be subsidized with one stone of grain every month, half a bolt of silk every month, and finally pay the toll as usual every year.

For example, an inland government soldier who has overdue his service and spent five years guarding the border in Lingzhou can receive a subsidy of sixty millet and thirty bolts of silk, plus five thousand yuan for travel expenses.

"To so much?"

"If you really want to count, it's actually not much. In the early years of the Sui Dynasty, the frontier garrison would give twelve stones of millet and seven bolts of silk to support their families.

Although the garrison soldiers from the mainland in Lingzhou who were on duty in Lingzhou had received food and clothing before, and they even earned some extra money, they have indeed served for a long time beyond their time limit, so they should be given some subsidies, not to mention that Yang Gong also served as a I know that before they were in Lingzhou, they participated in all kinds of gray industries and made a lot of money. Now that they are allowed to go home, they have to make some compensation. "

"In addition to this subsidy from the government, my plan is to ask Cao Liu and others to give them ashes, and then give some money to the Governor's Mansion, and we will distribute it to the soldiers returning home."

This money is equivalent to their share money, which is regarded as a withdrawal.

Anyway, these [-] mainland soldiers had to go home happily and willingly, and even let them read the Dudu's Mansion and the imperial court.

You can't be resentful, and you can't be poor with no travel expenses. Do some stealing and robbery along the way, that will have a bad impact.

"The inland government soldiers who have just come to change defenses will be able to guard the border with peace of mind in the future. They will change defenses after one year expires, and they will not be allowed to participate in smuggling and other things."

"What about the local government soldiers? I heard that the local government soldiers from the six commanding military residences are also deeply involved in it."

"Local government soldiers, that's my plan. Right now we have recovered a large number of fields, and I plan to set aside some of them to distribute some land to these spiritual salt government soldiers. Many soldiers have honors, but this For several years, Xuntian has not been divided in full. Now that there are fields in hand, all the owed Xuntian can be paid.

In addition, the soldiers of the Fubing each make up ten or twenty acres of land. In addition, there are men in the Fubing's family, or those who have reached the age of sixteen and are middle-aged men. If they have not yet been allocated land, they can be given priority to allocate land.

If the land is sufficient, you can use an average field order of one hectare per [-] mu, half of which can be given to middle-aged men. If the land is insufficient, you can allocate less.

Allocating land to the fields is a compensation and reward to the local government soldiers.

Unity and proximity to the city can also make up for it.

These compensations are given in exchange for quitting those gray products such as smuggling in the future, and serving as a soldier with peace of mind. As for whether you are farming or doing small businesses in your spare time, the court has no control.

However, officers and soldiers are no longer allowed to engage in smuggling and other acts while they are in service.

"In addition, I plan to allocate some more land and pastures to the military mansion or the unity camp as military farmland. They can plant it themselves, or hire people or rent it out. The income from the land rent can also be used as military soil Group benefits."

Previously, the land of Lingzhou was occupied by local snakes headed by the six tyrants, together with senior officials such as Li Daozong, who seized it under various guises. The number of household registrations in Lingzhou has always been low, which is seriously inconsistent with the actual population.

Too many people attached themselves to these powerful officials and became their tenants or even their servants.

Now there are a lot of land in the Dudu Mansion, not only the land that Li Daozong and others withdrew from the Qing Dynasty, but also the land that was copied by Peng Han and other tyrants. There are many lands.

If these lands just fall into the powerful hands of officials again, then there will be no change. Wu Huaiyu still hopes to make some changes, distribute more land to soldiers, and even distribute land to landless people who have settled down, so that the country will have more self-cultivated farmers, so that People have land in their hands, which is beneficial to Datang in the long run.

"After a good rectification, Lingzhou is still stable."

Yang Gongren accepted these suggestions from Wu Huaiyu.

Ever since, at the Qinghui, Xiayan's [-] elite soldiers served as a solid backing. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the Lingzhou Dudu Mansion issued a war mobilization order.

The frontier soldiers and government soldiers gathered from all over the country did not receive military orders to attack, but instead received orders for reorganization and demobilization one after another.

Facing the generous compensation, these Lingzhou soldiers were quite surprised.

He was able to go home, and there was a large amount of compensation. The inland government soldiers who had stayed in Lingzhou the longest had not changed their defenses for five years. A subsidy of thousands of dollars.

There is even an undisclosed benefit, and Cao Liu and others will give them a labor force, which is actually the business they participated in before.

Even the inland government soldiers who have stayed for three years can get 36 stones of millet, [-] bolts of silk and [-] yuan in subsidies from the governor's government this time, as well as a small benefit.

For everyone, it is really hard to refuse.

Although there are some people who are unhappy, the main ones who are unhappy are the middle and upper-level military officers. They get the most money from smuggling and other transactions.

But now that the soldiers are leaving, the officers are of course going back and forth.

But before these people had time to react, Yang Gongren and Wu Huaiyu first got all the officers above the head of the team together, one to sing bad faces and the other to sing bad faces. Anyway, they will either go home with a generous subsidy, or they may face criminal investigations. .

And no matter what choice these people make, they will never have the chance to return to their own army, and they will be directly led back to the mainland by Lu.

Cao Liu and others had to pay a sum of money, which was quite a lot, but they had no choice.

There are more than 5000 local government soldiers, [-] are united, and [-] are near the city. With subsidies, they can also divide the land to make up for it, which is a bit overjoyed.

Early May.

After the mobilization order was issued, the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion dispatched [-] inland soldiers to go back, and let them go home without waiting for the inland soldiers to change their defense.

Immediately afterwards, all the military officers in Lingzhou came to a major defense,

Yang Wu and Yang Wu reorganized more than 1 soldiers from the four governors' mansions of Ling, Qing, Hui, and Xia into Xiangying based on the formation of wartime battalions. Officers at all levels were also readjusted. custom in war,

Soldiers from various prefectures assembled, and each guard prefecture sent generals, and then the soldiers reorganized into battalions and went out to fight.

After the war, the soldiers returned to the government and returned to the guard.

The Lingwu Legion has a total of 4000 troops, including [-] troops newly transferred from the mainland to guard the border, [-] local soldiers from Lingyan, [-] Ling and Yan united soldiers, and [-] soldiers from the city.

It's still amazing to gather so many people.

Su Lie even thought that with so many soldiers, he could go straight to Shuofang Liangshidu's lair.

Of course, Wu Huaiyu and Yang Gongren didn't have that plan. This gathering was at most an exercise, and the main purpose was to solve some hidden dangers of the Lingzhou army.

The purpose is to first change the defense of the government soldiers who have been stationed in the inland for a long time, and then take the opportunity to adjust the generals of the local government soldiers and native regiments.

4000 people formed the Seventh Army according to the usual practice.

The central army and the front and rear armies, these three armies will go to the puppet Liang territory to launch a summer offensive, mainly to destroy crops, pastures, harass and rob, and train troops by the way.

The four-compartment army, the left one, the left two, the right one, and the right two, will be stationed in Ling, Yan and You prefectures, mainly responsible for city defense and border defense tasks, guarding the Great Wall, prefectures and counties, Fengbao, and guarding against Turkic people.

The four armies on the left and right sides, each with 400 troops, totaling [-] people, are responsible for staying behind and garrisoning.

The central army has 6000 men, and the left and right Yuhou armies each have 800 men.

Yang Gongren, the governor of Lingzhou and the marching chief of Lingwu Road, commanded the central army, Shi Wuhuaiyu, the governor's mansion and battalion commander Shi Wuhuaiyu, commanded the left wing, and Sima Sulie of Yanzhou commanded the right wing.

Liu Lan became Wu Huaiyu's deputy, and Niu Jianwu was Su Lie's deputy.

Lu Huairang, the governor's mansion and the battalion Sima Dou, was in charge of staying in Lingzhou.

After the general plan was arranged, for several days in a row, I was busy distributing money to dismiss the government soldiers to go home, and to distribute and grant land to the local government soldiers.

Reorganize the army, deploy officers, and mobilize money, food and arms.

忙，
Busy upside down.

Up and down are busy.

Fortunately, the busy schedule is not chaotic and orderly.

All kinds of measures were in place, and there was no disturbance. Most of the inland soldiers went home happily after receiving the rewards.

Since millet and silk cost a lot of money, they can choose to carry it back with their own horses and mules, or hire someone to transport it back, or it is more convenient to take the note and go to Chang'an or their hometown to pick it up.

Many soldiers didn't quite believe this. Although they said they don't have to worry, most soldiers would rather exchange their food in Lingzhou for cash, or for cattle, horses, mules, salt slaves, and other easy-to-carry goods, and take them home. .

Changing to horses or slaves, or spices, gold and silver are actually the lightest and easy to carry. Of course, there are certain risks. If you run away or die or get sick along the way, it is also a loss. fall.

Many officers were actually unwilling, but they were detained in the barracks by Wu Huaiyu and the others. When their soldiers were gone, they became bare commanders. After that, he took the property he had saved over the years in Lingzhou back to the original military government in the interior and resumed his post.

Every day, there are large groups of soldiers, holding the road guides issued to them by the Dudu Mansion, driving cattle and horses or leading slaves, carrying gold, silver, money and silk, driving to the inland in groups, and everyone is very happy.

On the Lingzhou side, the local government soldiers and Tutuan also laughed from ear to ear looking at the allocated fields.

Regardless of the inland soldiers or the local soldiers, although most of the selected ones were from good families with better conditions, the compensation Wu Huaiyu gave was indeed quite a lot, which was enough to satisfy everyone.

After this hectic first ten days passed, the soldiers of the three routes of Lingwu Dao finally vowed to go to war.

Yang Gongren once again put on the bright light armor. He looked at this majestic and high-spirited army of the king, and said to Huaiyu with a lot of emotion, "The army town that was gathered in Lingzhou ten years ago, Erlang broke them up in half a month. The morale of this new Lingwu Legion is even higher."

"Sufficient food and wages, strong armor and sharp weapons, and no worries about the future, naturally the morale is high."

Li Daozong guarded Lingzhou for five years, he took another path, but now Wu Huaiyu and the others are in charge of Lingwu, but they took a different path.

No one is right or wrong, it's just that different situations have different coping strategies in different periods.

In fact, Wu Huaiyu now admires Li Daozong very much. He was able to make Lingzhou so united and firm even when the world was still in chaos and the situation in Lingwu was so critical, and even the business was prosperous.

It's just that the situation is different now, and the old way is no longer suitable or even allowed.

(End of this chapter)