After the siege of Yanjing, Yang Yingqi was most concerned about not the battle situation in Yanjing, but the road from Tanggu to the Quartet.

The first road stretches from Tanggu to the northeast. Although there is still a Yuguan that has not yet been conquered on this road, it is already a thoroughfare whether it is to go to southern Liaoning by sea or by land through Dadingfu.

The second road stretches from Tanggu to Shandong. The two places can still travel by sea along the Bohai coast, but now that most of the coastal states and counties on the Hedong East Road have been surrendered, it should not be difficult to maintain a safe land route by military and political force in the coming months.

The third road, which Yang Yingqi attaches the most importance to, is from Tanggu to Taiyuan, and from there to Shaanxi! Yang Yingqi immediately mobilized a large number of manpower after receiving Quduan's arrival at Yanjing Road to ensure that the Han court could obtain the rule of the Xin'an Army, Baoding Army, Xiongzhou, Baozhou, Zhongshan, and Zhending as soon as possible east of Tanggu.

After the occupation of the Xin'an Army, the Baoding Army, Xiongzhou, Baozhou and other places, the people arranged by Chen Xian quickly took over these places, but Zhongshan and Zhending Zhuzhou counties encountered a little obstacle, Chen Xian was not satisfied with these officials arranged by Liu Cao before, and it was easy to do so, but Yang Yingqi decided to keep these people after considering various factors.

In late July, the four-way army outside Yanjing City began to attack the city, and Han Fang's car had also entered Tanggu. He was accompanied by a large number of scholars from the Northern Kingdom, either from Dading or Yanjing, and after entering Tanggu, most of them naturally became the cornerstone of the central government officials of the Han court. At this moment, Tanggu has become the temporary administrative center of the Xinhan regime, and with the optimism about the situation in the Yanyun area, a large number of merchants have also flocked to the city from both land and sea, and the Tanggu market, which has been lifeless due to the blockade of Zongfu for more than a year, has been revitalized again.

In early August, Wang Xuan led an army of 50,000 people from Shandong to attack the Daimyo's mansion, and Zongbi's offensive to the north was a pause. Thanks to Wang Xuan's containment, both Wang Yan and Xu Wen stabilized the battle situation. At this time, Cao Guangbi already knew that Qu Duan's march on the northern front was going well, and he thought that he did not need to reinforce from the north, so he crossed the Taihang Mountain and personally commanded the battle against Zongbi. With Cao Guangbi as the commander-in-chief of the army on the east and west routes of Hebei, the Han army's actions in this area immediately became flexible. When Zong Bi saw Cao Guangbi coming in person, he also knew that the hope of going north was extremely slim, and he was afraid that Zhao Li and Li Yanxian would copy his back road from Shandong and Luoyang, and he was even more afraid that Zhao Gou would take the opportunity to stab him, so he had no choice but to gradually withdraw to the south of the Yellow River.

Cao Guangbi and Wang Xuan held a military meeting after meeting in the Daimyo's Mansion, Wang Xuan suggested taking the opportunity to go south and completely eradicate Zong Bi, but Cao Guangbi finally thought that Zong Bi still had a certain combat effectiveness, and there were still many big problems in the rear of the Han army that had not been solved, and now was not the time to completely eradicate him. His idea was to deploy defenses along the river, limit Zongbi to the south of the Yellow River, and wait for the Han court to complete the unification of the two rivers and Shaanxi before continuing to march and collect Henan. Although Wang Xuan felt that this suggestion was too conservative, he did not oppose it too strongly when he saw that Cao Guangbi insisted on it.

After Cao Guangbi's decision reached Tanggu, Yang Yingqi was very happy, and Han Fang also said: "The second general is very far-sighted!" ”

Yang Yingqi asked rhetorically: "How can the second brother have a vision?" ”

Han Fang said: "The decision of the second general, firstly, is that I am afraid that Zong Bi will jump off the wall in a hurry, and our army will suffer too much damage, and secondly, I am also worried that Zong Bi will be destroyed, and we will have to clash head-on with the small court in Jiangnan from now on." ”

Yang Yingqi smiled: "Not bad! Now we need to spend a lot of spirit and strength to rectify Lianghe and Shaanxi, if we can have a buffer with the Song court, things will be much easier! ”

At this time, Zongfu had been besieged in Yanjing City and was in danger, and Zongbi was confined to the south of the Yellow River by Cao Guangbi, and the head of the Eastern Route Army of the Jin regime was completely cut off from the local governments in Hebei. The soldiers and horses who went south from Tanggu surrendered along the way, and within half a month, the east and west roads of Hebei all changed banners. Chen Xian sent subordinate officials to various parts of Hebei, and Li Jie, who had already arrived in Tanggu, also set out to establish a judicial system on Hebei's east-west road to replace the original system of having state and county officials in charge of justice. The judges sent by the Han court center to various places first took root in Hebei East Road, and then slowly entered Hebei West Road and Hedong Road, all of which were carried out step by step, although Li Jie had made a lot of preparations before, but in his schedule, the judicial reform in Shaanxi could not be fully carried out until the coming year.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, Chen Zhenghui returned to the center with his subordinate bureaucrats - at this time, the center in everyone's minds was no longer Liaoyang Mansion or Jinmen, but Tanggu. And when Ma Kuo of Hedong entered this coastal city that was full of vitality because of political factors with Yu Qi's debriefing report, it was already the Double Ninth Festival, and Ma Kuo came together, as well as Guo Hao, the former Shaanxi transfer envoy who was ready to enter the Central Privy Council, and Yang Yingqi led the ministers to wash the dust for the two of them, and the ministers took the opportunity to congratulate Yang Yingqi on his joy.

From early July to early September, two months passed, but Yanjing still did not fall. However, the people of Hebei's east-west road no longer need to suffer from the flames of war. In order to cope with this situation, several specially trained teams still shuttled between various prefectures and counties after the pacification of Hebei, focusing on cracking down on bandits gathered in the mountains and wilderness, but the most effective means of local law and order was not violent suppression, but relief and appeasement, especially the policy of tax reduction and exemption played a key role. The first thing the officials sent by the Han court to the recovered prefectures and counties was to put up a list to reassure the people, and the first article of the list was usually to reduce or reduce agricultural taxes according to the specific conditions of each region.

"Say the king of Han, the king of Dao Han, the king of Han is coming and does not pay for food......"

When such a folk song reached Yang Yingqi's ears, he couldn't help but get goosebumps, and his first reaction was to ask Chen Zhenghui, who told him this folk song: "Who made this up?" ”

Chen Zhenghui smiled: "I heard it all the way north. People along the way were very happy about it. ”

Yang Yingqi hurriedly shouted: "This is really nonsense, who said that you can't pay for food?" That is to say, some areas will reduce taxes for one to three years, and when the vitality recovers, they still have to pay what should be paid. ”

Chen Zhenghui laughed and said: "It doesn't matter, those farmers are not all fools, as long as they can be given a year or two to let them live in peace, it is enough." Seventh General, you don't know that in recent years, Zong Bi has been so aggressive in Hebei in order to cope with the war situation, and even many middle-class families have gone bankrupt. Now we collect it according to the tax law of southern Liaoning, that is, it will not be reduced or reduced, and the people can live. ”

Yang Yingqi said: "I also know this, but I always think this folk song is not good, and it feels weird." ”

Chen Zhenghui smiled: "Seventh General, do you think it's indecent?" Well, it's indecent, but it's easy to use. Many thieves listened to this song before they went home to farm. After all, most people become robbers because they are forced to take risks because they have no food to eat. Speaking of this, Chen Zhenghui suddenly sighed.

Yang Yingqi said curiously: "What are you doing with a sudden sigh?" ”

Chen Zhenghui said: "I sigh that after so many years of hard work, we finally have the opportunity to benefit good governance in the Central Plains!" Seventh General, you don't know how happy I am to see the states and counties gradually settling down along the way! Because I know it's got my sweat in it! Yesterday was southern Liaoning, today is Lianghe, tomorrow is Shaanxi, and when we do all the things in the north, it will be the whole world! ”

Yang Yingqi laughed when he heard this: "Zhenghui, your ambition is bigger than me and my eldest brother!" ”

"Ambition? Is this ambition? Chen Zhenghui said: "If it is, it doesn't matter. Anyway, I'm very happy now because I'm doing something that my late father wanted to do but couldn't do! I can finally look up to heaven and earth and say: I have not taken this wrong path! ”

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