Chapter 156: Good News (Continued)
In the middle of the meeting, the good news of the official army came, and he asked people to read it out in public, and after listening to it, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and this good news also made the people present breathe a sigh of relief. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Huangzhou is now under-armed, if it can't block the enemy army moving south, the situation will only get worse and worse, and what is even more unexpected is that the imperial court will actually send five soldiers and horses to attack the five passes of Dabie Mountain at the same time.
What I didn't expect was that such a menacing enemy, the King of Xiyang really repelled all of them, and everyone had heard the good news, and it was very clear that according to the previous situation of the King of Xiyang, it was unlikely to be a false report, which meant that a crisis was lifted.
Not long ago, the King of Xiyang suddenly came back from the distant Lingbiao and appeared in front of everyone, facing the dangerous situation with a calm expression.
When summoning civil and military officials to discuss matters, they did not plan to transfer the main force of the Huangzhou Army back from Jiangzhou, not to mention that the Hulin Army under his command was far away in Lingbiao, and many officials thought that the King of Xiyang was forced to calm down.
However, now it seems that the King of Xiyang is not forced to be calm at all, but is really confident.
The imperial court attacked Shannan Huangzhou, the opponent's forces were divided into five routes, with a total number of more than 10,000 people, all of whom were real soldiers, and the king of Xiyang was able to defeat them all in the absence of the main force of the Huangzhou army, even if considering the terrain, no one could deny that this was a hearty victory.
Many people thought again in their hearts: King Xiyang is good at fighting, and it is really not a waste of fame!
Since the assassination of Sima Yuwen in Huangzhou on that day, the officials of the Huangzhou Governor's Office realized that the situation was about to change greatly, so their hearts became lively.
They knew that the King of Xiyang was a good official, and they also admired the ability of the King of Xiyang to govern, and it was indeed a fact that the days of the states and counties under the rule of the Huangzhou Governor's Office were getting better and better day by day, but the powerful strength of the Wei Chi clan was there, and if that day came, I am afraid that everyone would be unable to help themselves.
What day is it? The day when the imperial army approached Xiyang City in Huangzhou.
The good reputation and good official reputation of the King of Xiyang cannot restore the huge gap in strength between the Yuwen clan and the Yuchi clan, everyone has a family to take care of, and it is impossible to follow the king of Xiyang to die.
Therefore, many people have no choice but to make a decision, once the imperial army is in the city, then do their best to obey the destiny of heaven, the day the city is broken, it is time to surrender, as for the fate of the king of Xiyang and his family, can only be helpless.
However, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court were defeated, and they were defeated very simply, which happened in the case of the lack of major generals in the hands of the King of Xiyang, and it is conceivable that once the Hulin Army returns, the King of Xiyang will fight a greater victory.
The arrival of the good news made the participants much easier, and the second good news that followed was even more refreshed for everyone: the Xiangxi Road march that attacked Jiangling in Liang State had been defeated by the Jiangnan West Road March, and the crisis in the direction of Jiangling was lifted.
This is indeed good news, which means that the flanks of the Shannan Territory are safe, and they can concentrate on sending troops to Jingzhou to resist the menacing imperial army, and if they deal with it properly, the Yuwen clan will be able to fight against the Yuchi clan.
Half of the country is also a country, and the situation of the confrontation between the East and West Wei is very likely to reappear again and become a confrontation between the East and the West, but in any case, the situation in Shannan at least has a tendency to improve.
Hao Wubo clapped his hands and signaled that the interrupted meeting would continue, and he was also very happy when the good news came one after another, but he couldn't sit back and relax at this time, because there was more than one battlefield.
"The autumn harvest is imminent, and the war is in full swing, the soldiers in front are fighting bravely to kill the enemy, and we will stay in the rear, and we must ensure that the grain is stored smoothly..."
"The front-line soldiers and horses need a large supply of grain and grass, and they need to mobilize young and strong people to transport grain and grass, and the autumn harvest in the rear also needs to organize a lot of manpower.
Hao Wubo spread out the current situation and said, Yuwen Wen ordered him to preside over state affairs, he really carried a heavy burden on his shoulders, the autumn harvest was not trivial, Yuwen Wen tried his best to block the enemy army north of Dabie Mountain, just to ensure the smooth progress of the autumn harvest.
Fighting a war is about logistics, no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, even if the world's strong army has to collapse, so how to ensure sufficient food is a problem that the commander of the first army must consider.
In recent years, the prefectures and counties under the administration of the Huangzhou Governor's Office have vigorously built water conservancy projects, opened up wasteland for farming, and grain output has increased year by year, but the foundation is too poor, and now the amount of grain stored is only sufficient; if the war is protracted, then whether the new grain can be smoothly put into storage has become the key to determining the success or failure of the war.
Elsewhere, if the flames of war are allowed to reach the boundary of the Huangzhou Governor's Office, even if the enemy army is repelled later, once the autumn harvest is delayed, it will mean that the grain output will drop sharply, and the military rations for the coming year will be stretched.
If the enemy army invades again in the summer and autumn of the following year, and burns the flames of war to the boundary of the Huangzhou Governor's Office, the autumn harvest is delayed again, and the Huangzhou army will not be able to survive.
Hao Wubo is worried about this problem, Yuwenwen naturally also noticed this problem, so everyone has to defend the five passes of Dabie Mountain no matter what, and now, Yuwenwen has preliminarily completed the important task of resisting the enemy, so next, Hao Wubo must organize the autumn harvest to ensure the smooth storage of autumn grain.
This is not only the case in Huangzhou, but also in other states, as for the other governors, Hao Wubo can't manage it, and he is not qualified to manage it, so it should be up to Shannan Dao Daxing Taishang Shu Lingyu Wenming to have a headache.
The issue of ensuring the autumn harvest is finally over, and after a short rest, a new topic begins, which is still about logistics, that is, in the current situation, the war may not end in the short term, so the preparation of armaments cannot be delayed.
On the march to fight, the first priority is food and grass, and the second is all kinds of materials, among which the most important consumables are arrows, a big war consumes hundreds of thousands of arrows, and now the demand for arrows in the Huangzhou army is only high.
The production of arrows requires a lot of feathers, and the production of winter clothes requires a lot of down, and now autumn has arrived, and winter is not far away, and officers and soldiers have been issued winter clothes last year, but they always need to be replaced.
The addition of a large number of rebels requires the government to provide winter clothes, so a large number of feathers and down are needed, and there are many chicken, duck and goose farms in Huangzhou, and the output is not a problem, the problem is that it costs money to purchase winter clothes.
According to the usual practice, the government can conscript the people to serve in labor, and mobilize manpower and material resources to prepare various materials without compensation, including clothes and quilts, but the Huangzhou Governor's Office and even other governor's offices in Shannan are different, and the clothes and quilts prepared for the soldiers need to be bought with money.
Even at the cost price, it costs a lot of feathers and fluff to make winter clothes, not to mention other places, the cost of these procurement items is a lot of money.
In other words, a heavy financial burden.
What could have been done for free, the government just had to spend money, and without saying whether it was right or wrong, it asked where the money came from.
From taxes, of course.
For the Huangzhou Governor's Government, the commercial tax accounts for the majority, and the thriving business has brought sufficient commercial tax, and how to collect the tax on time and in accordance with the amount has become another important task of the government.
Autumn is the harvest season, but also a major season for commercial activities, the purchase of all kinds of military supplies need to spend money, mainly rely on taxes to support expenditure, so officials have to organize both the autumn harvest and the logistics of transport, but also to ensure that the tax is collected in time.
Now the situation is tense and there is a shortage of manpower, so one person has to be used for three people, so you can imagine how heavy the burden is on the shoulders of the officials.
When the soldiers go into battle to fight, they have to fill their stomachs and let the officials work like cattle, and it will not work without adding some materials, so Hao Wubo announced a good news in public: "From this month to December, the monthly income will be doubled!" ”