Chapter 178: Contradictions, Xintai
The Lei Genghu incident made both the mercenary group and Chen Xian famous, and the trade routes in Laiwu County were unimpeded all of a sudden, and a bad thing was turned into a good thing by Chen Xian, but in the end, it was not all a good thing.
Because of this, Chen Xian and Yang Miaozhen quarreled for the first time.
The focus of the conflict between the two men is the plan for the future of the cavalry.
According to Chen Xian's plan, it was enough to have assault cavalry, horse infantry, and light cavalry, and as for the all-round cavalry, it was completely outside his plan.
However, Yang Miaozhen became more and more fascinated by the training methods of the all-round cavalry because of Lei Genghu's great victory, and he felt that it was really unreasonable for Chen Xian to give up such an excellent type of troops. Therefore, he strongly demanded that when Chen Xian expanded the cavalry, he must expand the scale of the all-round cavalry.
Of course, Chen Xian resolutely refused, and after several soft grinds and hard bubbles, the two finally began to quarrel.
After Yang Miaozhen found that the quarrel could not shake Chen Xian, she made a suggestion to Chen Xian.
Yang Miaozhen proposed that she should take people to Yangjiazhuang in Yidu, on the one hand, to make a front stop for Chen Xian to enter Shandong East Road in the future, and on the other hand, to use the Yang family's business network to expand the sales of its products for Chen Xian.
As a large merchant who monopolizes the saddle business on Shandong East Road, the Yang family's network of contacts on Shandong East Road is beyond doubt.
Chen Xian naturally knew that Yang Miao really wanted to go to Yangjiazhuang, but in fact, she wanted to use the resources of the Yang family to realize her idea of building an all-round cavalry.
The reason why Chen Xian opposed Yang Miaozhen to continue to expand the ranks of the all-round cavalry was that he didn't want to waste his resources, but if Yang Miaozhen wanted to use the resources of the Yang family, then he would not care, and if he could use the resources of the Yang family to sell Chen Xian's goods to Shandong East Road, it would also be of great benefit to him.
Moreover, Yang Miaozhen has been invincible in the past two years, and has established a high reputation in Chen Xian's cavalry system, if she can leave for a while, it will not be a bad thing for Chen Xian.
When Yang Miaozhen left, he not only took away the more than 200 years he had come from the Yang family, but also took away the 100 cavalry who were willing to follow him.
After Yang Miaozhen left, Chen Xian retook over the cavalry unit, and while expanding the cavalry unit, he made some adjustments to the officers of the cavalry.
In the reorganization and training of the cavalry, Chen Xian also spent a lot of effort to regain his control over the cavalry troops.
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Chen Xian spent three months to complete the redressing, changing, and expansion of the army, and after half a year of training, he launched a new round of military operations in the spring of the first year of Chongqing.
The first year of Chongqing is the second era of Wanyan Yongji, that is, 1212 AD, and it has been six years since Chen Xian came to this era.
It's not that Chen Xian suddenly became impatient, but that the food in Chen Xian's hands was a little insufficient.
To feed nearly 10,000 wolf-like soldiers, with the grain output of a county, it is obviously insufficient, Chen Xian in the process of occupying Laiwu before, the grain scavenged by tough means, after half a year of consumption, has gone down more than half, last autumn harvest of grain after the distribution of the part of the vocational field, Xuntian, the remaining grain is completely insufficient to supplement consumption, Chen Xian can only launch the expansion again.
He can't wait until there is a real shortage of food, when it will be too late.
This time, Chen Xian only left two infantry battalions to sit in the rear, and handed over the task of defending the city to the militia of each town, and he personally led six infantry battalions and six cavalry battalions to Xintai County.
The process of occupying Xintai County is far more fierce than the resistance to occupy Laiwu, after all, Chen Xian has fought back and forth with Laiwu Haoqiang several times before occupying Laiwu, and has established an invincible image in Laiwu Haoqiang's mind, so when the final harvest is completed, there is a feeling of natural success, but Xintai is different.
However, the results of resistance and non-resistance, in the face of absolute power, are not much different, and they only give Chen Xian an excuse to carry out purges.
With cannons in hand, the generally powerful earth enclosures could not stop the footsteps of Chen Xian's army at all.
One by one, the powerful Zhuangzi were quickly uprooted, and every time he beat a powerful Zhuangzi, Chen Xian would brutally purge the Haoqiang in the Zhuangzi and the vested interest groups that depended on them.
After purging the ruling class of Zhuangzi, Chen Xian would recruit officials and militia from Laiwu to rebuild government institutions in Zhuangzi......
Sometimes in the dead of night, Chen Xian will also be frightened by the changes he has made over the years, but he is helpless, although he has knowledge from the future as a strong backing, but he is not a god after all, he can not bear the resources and time costs brought by the preservation of the landlord and powerful class, if he does not use cruel means to eliminate those people, then it is almost impossible for him to establish a stable regime before the arrival of the Mongols, so if he does not eliminate the landlords and vested interest groups, for him, it is tantamount to suicide.
In fact, Chen Xian understood this truth very early, but there are things that you can't do if you understand, this is not to kill one or two people, but to kill a group and a class!
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In the end, Chen Xian's army gathered in Xintai County, and it was effortless to occupy Xintai County, and after a burst of artillery bombardment, the battle was basically over, and the officials in the city obviously did not have the consciousness of martyrdom, and fled from the city gate in the opposite direction of attack.
After occupying Xintai County, Chen Xian did not carry out purges, he dealt with the rich and big households in Xintai County like Laiwu County, this is not that Chen Xian has any special feelings for the big households in the county, or to keep a little mercy This kind of hellish thing, but because the big and rich households in the county town are weaker than the strong and powerful in the countryside, occupy less land, and are more commercial, which is worth transforming.
Chen Xian also had to rely on these big households and merchants in the county town to maintain his trade contacts with the outside world.
After stabilizing Xintai County a little, Chen Xian left two infantry battalions and lost Xintai County to his newly appointed acting county commander Huang Sheng.
Huang Sheng himself is a Xintai person, he was Peng Yibin in order to trade with Chen Xian, a young man who looted from Xintai County, was sold to Chen Xian at the age of fifteen, and he is only nineteen years old this year, he is the best one among all Chen Xian's students, since the previous year he has served as the mayor of the town, and every performance appraisal is excellent, and the deep Chen Xianqi is important, and in the last six months, Chen Xian was transferred to Laiwu County as the deputy county magistrate, and has accumulated experience in managing a county.
Throwing Xintai to Huang Sheng, Chen Xian once again took an infantry regiment and six cavalry battalions and pounced on Mengyin County!
Compared with Xintai and Laiwu, Mengyin County is a mountainous county, with less flat land and relatively barren land, with a population of only about 40,000, which is an inferior county.
However, the county's location is very important to Chen Xian, as it connects Laiwu Xintai with the eastern plains of Shandong.
The eastern plain of Shandong is Chen Xian's goal for future development.
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