Chapter 208: Not allowed
Wang Xiao almost fled from Chang'an City with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
Wang Xiao, who was full of depression, really didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing before he came.
There were not many large cities in the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, and the only cities that had large-scale population gatherings were Chang'an and Luoyang City.
The concentration of a large number of people has led to a sharp increase in domestic waste, and the cities of this era are unable to handle so much waste, and the result is continuous degradation and sinking.
Over the centuries, groundwater sources have been polluted.
It's no wonder that Daxing City will choose another place to build a new one in the future, and I really can't stand that smell.
The operation to recover Jing Zhaoyin and Guanzhong could not be called a battle, because there were not a few decent fights along the way. All of them kept chasing Dong Zhuo's troops who fled all the way to Liangzhou.
Dong Zhuo's troops were indeed defeated, because Jia Xu sent people to spread the news among his army that they were leaving Guanzhong for Liangzhou.
The people of Guanzhong, who are difficult to leave their homeland, are gone.
If this is really a conscription by the imperial court, it is nothing to go out to fight as an official soldier.
After all, since the beginning of Qin, the children of Guanzhong have been fighting everywhere.
Ping Guandong, Xialingnan, conquer the grassland, open the Western Regions and so on. Created a huge empire.
But he, Dong Zhuo, is a traitor defined by the imperial court, and no one will do this kind of thing when he leaves his hometown with a group of traitors to pursue a bleak future.
Deserters began to appear constantly. As the news spread, the scale became larger and larger, and later even the entire battalion ran away.
Dong Zhuo's brutal words are not nonsense, he really regards human life like a mustard.
Knowing that there were deserters, his reaction was to kill them directly.
The man in Guanzhong is very bloody, and he is not crying cowardly in the face of the butcher's knife, but drawing the knife to fight.
There are only so many people under Dong Zhuo's command, where can they withstand the resistance of so many fierce Guanzhong disciples.
If it weren't for the lack of leaders among the children of Guanzhong, and they only wanted to go home, then Dong Zhuo probably wouldn't have been able to enter Longyou Road.
Dong Zhuo, who took thousands of soldiers and horses, fled to Longyou Road in embarrassment, and finally broke through the blockade of Huangfu Song and fled back to Liangzhou under the response of Ma Teng and others.
Wang Xiao led the team to Longyou Chencang, looked at the vast mountains in the distance, and sighed involuntarily.
From here to Jincheng County, which is the capital of Huangfu Songtun, that is, Lanzhou, there are nearly 2,000 miles away.
And along the way, it's either a big mountain or a small mountain. In the endless mountains and forests, there is only one Longyou Road that is feasible.
As for the quality of this road, Wang Xiao doesn't even need to walk in, just look under his feet.
Originally, he had always wondered why he was as strong as a great man and would lose the Western Regions in this era. Why not send a large army to the Western Regions to reinforce the local Han army.
Now when he saw the road that meandered into the endless mountains, he understood.
This kind of rugged and narrow road looks inconspicuous, but it is a road that the Han Dynasty has carved out with the lives of generations for hundreds of years.
In order to be able to open a road in the vast mountains in this era when there were no machinery and no explosives, so that the Han army could go to the Western Regions.
It was not stones and rammed earth that were laid on the ground, but the blood of the Han family's sons.
With such a long and rugged road, it is impossible to afford to supply the logistics of a large-scale army.
The land of Liangzhou can feed the 30,000 people of Huangfu Song is already in the limit state. If you bring tens of thousands of people over by yourself, it will collapse immediately.
It is no wonder that the Han army in the Western Regions in this era can be a Han and a Wuhu.
It's not that the Han army doesn't want to send troops on a large scale, it's that the logistics can't hold it at all.
"Get ready, go back."
In the face of this state, Wang Xiao was also powerless, so he could only explain the matter of exterminating Dong Zhuo and Ma Teng to Huangfu Song.
As for recovering the Western Regions or something, it will have to wait until Lu Zhi reorganizes Guanzhong and makes this place a big granary again.
On the way back, the morale of the officers and men of the various armies was generally not high.
They hurried over in a hurry to make great achievements, so that they could go back to the fields and reward the knights. But who would have thought that after a month of wandering around in Jingzhaoyin, there was no great credit for pi.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty sold the title, which was an empty title. There are no practical benefits.
But the title given by Wang Xiao is real, and those who have made meritorious contributions in the Tiger Prison Pass before have received corresponding mansions, five-baht money, grain and cloth and other rewards.
Only this kind of tangible benefits in the hands can inspire the brave hearts of the sergeants.
Wang Xiao thought in his heart, if this system was adopted in the Great Song Dynasty in the Jingkang year and the Ming Dynasty in the Chongzhen year, would the once weak and crying sheep turn into bloodthirsty tigers.
Referring to the fierce combat effectiveness of those Ming troops who defected to the Manchu Qing when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Wang Xiao felt that this thing could be done.
Although it is said that it will be resisted desperately by the Confucian scholars, but the country is gone, and there is still a need to care about the feelings of those turbans who turn around and kneel to the alien race?
No kidding.
On the way back to Luoyang City, Wang Xiao did not dare to go to Chang'an City, but took a detour to Hedong County.
He was really scared, and as soon as he approached Chang'an City, he felt very uncomfortable.
The county seat of Hedong County is in Angeup, located at the foot of Nakajo Mountain.
When Wang Xiao's army came to camp here, the local people who were assigned to the fields spontaneously led sheep and pigs, picked up wine and grain and came to the camp to offer them, in order to express their gratitude to Wang Xiao.
Thinking of the tricks that spent money to buy Wanmin umbrellas in the future and hired actors to perform the tricks of stopping cars and kneeling to beg the departing officials to stay, Wang Xiao smiled proudly.
He was in the Ming world, but he had really seen this kind of thing.
The praise and praise from all sides is like a star-making movement.
Such a trick can be hidden from those emperors who are better than the hands of women in the deep palace, but unfortunately it can't be hidden from Wang Xiao, who has experienced the baptism of information explosion in the modern world.
For such a show, Wang Xiao sent them to overseas territories to educate those natives.
If you don't win the hearts of the people, then go to overseas territories to win the hearts of the natives.
Now that he has encountered this kind of thing himself, he is indeed very proud in his heart.
The feeling of being admired and worshiped by countless people is indeed very good.
"Is there a person named Xu Huang in your county?"
Inside the Yamen of Anyi County, Wang Xiao's gaze swept over the bodies of many county officials below.
Xu Huang is one of the five good generals, and the force value is not necessarily high, but the ability to command troops is not weak.
This is not a peerless world, the level of force value does not matter, the ability to command is the most important.
The most important thing is that Xu Huang is just a small official in the county, and he can only be regarded as a rich peasant and a small landlord who survives in his family, which is far from the level of Haoqiang.
With such a background, Wang Xiao can use it boldly with confidence.
And for children of big families like Xun Yu and Xun Yu, Wang Xiao will not use it. Because Wang Xiao is taking the bottom route, he is naturally hostile to these wealthy families.
And like the Sima Yi family, Wang Xiao even secretly prepared to completely exterminate it.
It's just that the reputation of the Sima family is too good at this time, even if it is to frame them, it will cause huge backlash and trouble. So Wang Xiao let it go for the time being, waiting for the opportunity to start.
For the famous families, Wang Xiao allowed them to hand over ninety percent of the land in exchange for family security.
The officials of Hedong County talked in a whisper, and finally replied, "There is indeed such a person, but he is only a small official in the county." ”
The official system of the Han Dynasty is to look at the background, if you have a good background, you can be an official, and if you have a bad background, you can go to plow the land.
Xu Huang is like this, just a little linshi worker who does odd jobs.
At this time, he was able to get a general like Wang Xiao at the peak of power to personally interrogate, and everyone felt incredible.
Wang Xiao nodded with satisfaction, "Go and tell him, come to the army to report when the army leaves tomorrow." Let's go for a team rate first. ”
This is not a game world, and it is not a general who can be in charge as soon as it comes out.
Everyone needs room to grow and gain experience.
Unless it's Jia Xu, who is already in his forties and experienced. Otherwise, Wang Xiao would not have been entrusted with a heavy task as soon as he came up.
Gao Shun followed Wang Xiao when he was in Taiyuan County, and after a great battle, he achieved the position of commander of the trapping camp.
Zhang Liao followed Wang Xiao to exterminate the Baibo army and fought countless fierce battles. After that, he went to Luoyang City as He Jin's command, and participated in the battle to exterminate the Ten Standing Servants and the battle against Dong Zhuo.
He has accumulated a lot of experience and has done very well. This is the qualification to be in charge of the Tiger Prison Pass.
And a warrior like Dian Wei Xu Zhu can only be a bodyguard by Wang Xiao's side.
Xu Huang, who learned the news, was also confused, and didn't understand why he was favored by the general. I don't understand why such a small official as he is known by the general.
But none of this matters, the important thing is that he sees his opportunity to soar.
Xu Huang agreed without hesitation, and happily threw the position of the little official into the army.
Wang Xiao's military merit system has an unparalleled attraction for people like Xu Huang.
If you want to get ahead, just grab it with the knife in your hand.
Wang Xiao, who returned to Luoyang City from Hedong County, was not idle, and after taking stock of the grain and grass materials in the warehouse, he exchanged Huang Zhong for Zhang Liao in exchange for Tiger Prison Pass.
Then, with Gao Shun as the main general, he led the soldiers of the state to cross the river and cross the Taihang Mountain to restore the rule of the imperial court over the state.
Then let Zhang Liao lead the Yulin Army and the Northern Army to the south to attack Yuan Shu, who was entrenched in Nanyang County.
Some people are worried that a large number of soldiers and horses will go out to fight, causing the city to be empty, and if someone goes straight to Huanglong, it will be dangerous.
Wang Xiao didn't care about this, no one in the world had this ability.
Yuan Shao was still licking his wounds in Hebei, waiting to regain his strength. Cao Cao was even more miserable, taking his family members to recruit troops everywhere.
As for the others, Wang Xiao never took them seriously.
On this day, when he was in the court, someone said that Wang Rong, the assassin of Jingzhou, was killed, and Liu Biao was elected as the pastor of Jingzhou.
Then some people said that Yizhou Assassin Shi Yijian gathered in Yizhou, and greed became a trend that led to boiling public resentment. Liu Yan was elected as the pastor of Yizhou.
After hearing this, Wang Xiao's eyes looked directly at the Empress Dowager He, who was listening to the government in the court.
He's not a nestling that hasn't come out of the nest, and he doesn't understand anything. He is a time-tested old bird, and he understood it at the first time, this is not Liu Yan and Liu Biao's business, this is the Empress Dowager He and their behind.
Wang Xiao's power is too great, and he is not much more reckless than Wang Mang back then.
Not only were the officials afraid, but the Empress Dowager He and Liu Wei were even more afraid.
Pushing the Liu family to go out to occupy the territory, this is the first step to weaken Wang Xiao's power.
It's just that as soon as this first step was taken, Wang Xiao noticed it.
Empress Dowager He's gaze was a little evasive, and she didn't dare to look at Wang Xiao.
After a while, Wang Xiao shook his head slightly, "Not allowed." ”
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