Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Aftermath of the Granting of Fields

The matter of granting land spread far away, causing a strong shock in Runing.

Although Zhang Xuan didn't keep it secret before, what everyone heard was just rumors, but now they have seen the facts. For a time, there was a big movement in the army. Of course, Wang Jincai was quite unhappy, he originally wanted to follow Zhang Xuan south to fight a few battles. never expected that after going south, not even a single person was killed, and they all surrendered.

However, the biggest shock was not the Baoding camp, but the Xiping camp.

Xiping Tangyu Village. Part of the Xiping camp, under the leadership of Shen Wandeng, was stationed here to guard the iron mine.

At the same time that Shen Wandeng got the news, the whole Xiping camp got the news.

"Childe." Shen Tai said outside.

"Come in." Shen Wandeng said.

After Shen Tai came in, he saw Shen Wandeng holding a letter, he was stunned, he glanced at it, and could only see the words "grant land" and "divide the land" from the letter, although he didn't know who wrote it, but he could guess the content of the letter.

"Childe, there is something wrong with the military spirit recently." Shen Tai said with a bit of a slurrel.

"What happened?" Shen Wandeng said.

"What else can it be, it is the matter of granting land, the people below are spreading, one by one General Zhang is called that pro, and the new officers are blowing very big, what Zhang Tiebi, if it goes on like this, these three thousand soldiers, I'm afraid it won't be our Shen family." Shen Tai is the son of the Shen family, the son of the old housekeeper, and is loyal to Shen Wandeng. So I was very worried about this situation, so I came over to report to Shen Wandeng.

Shen Wandeng was silent for a while and said, "I know. ”

"Childe, we can't do this, right?" Shen Tai said: "If you don't do anything, you can't do anything." ”

Shen Wandeng said: "Originally, I couldn't do anything. Shen Wandeng said to Shen Tai: "What can you do?" Raised troops to seize the Tangyu iron mine and gave up Xiping, you must know that this area is all the forces of the rogues, can we run out of Runing, can we run out of Henan? Moreover, if we do this, how many times will Runing be involved? ”

"Moreover, if I really want to raise troops, the people below are waiting to divide the fields, how many people will listen to me?"

"This ---" Shen Tai couldn't think of a way for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "You have to find a way, these thousands of people, but Gongzi, your hard work, just let Zhang Xuan take it away?" ”

"Heart's work." Shen Wandeng smiled bitterly: "During the Battle of Shahe, it's not like you haven't seen how Zhang Xuan broke Liu Hongqi's 20,000 army with 4,000 people. Although I don't want to admit it, I have to admit that the officer sent by General Zhang is though

Not much, but the trained soldiers are far more powerful than our grass platform team, so what kind of hard work do you have? ”

Zhang Xuan moved to the Central Plains for a year or two, began to accumulate experience from Nanyang, and improved his Zhang's art of war little by little, and now it has a rough scale, and he persevered, and he taught the officers under his command whatever he had, not only cultivating a group of cronies, but also cultivating a group of qualified junior officers.

Most of the officers under Zhang Xuan's sect and Shen Wandeng's command were from this background.

The soldiers under Shen Wandeng's command have a very good foundation, Shen Wandeng does not drink the blood of soldiers, the people below eat and drink well, and their physique is okay, so they were slightly rectified and almost immediately visible.

Shen Wandeng didn't say anything, but he was already impressed in his heart. Every day, he kept quiet, wrote down the details of their military training, and secretly figured it out at night. The officers trained by Zhang Xuan only came according to Zhang Xuan's regulations, but as for why this was so, they didn't know.

But to explain some illiterate people to this extent, it is close to Zhang Xuan's full strength. Shen Wandeng is different. Although he can't read, his cultural knowledge is not comparable to these illiterates, not to mention, he is good at martial arts, and he has passed the martial arts examination, even in the martial arts, he also has to test the art of war.

Shen Wandeng has a lot of goods in his stomach, but he has never understood how to use it, seeing Zhang Xuan's training method, combined with the military books he has read, he actually has touched the side and suddenly opened up. I also admire Zhang Xuan even more.

"But what about my Shen family's soldiers?" Shen Tai said with a sad face.

"Remember, start today." Shen Wandeng said sharply: "There is only the Xiping Camp of the Runing Army, and there are no soldiers of my Shen family, remember no." ”

"Remembered." Shen Tai was frightened by Shen Wandeng and said, "Remember." ”

Shen Wandeng said: "It's best to remember, once you say something wrong in the future." Be careful of your head, I won't be able to protect you when the time comes, and I'll be the first to kill you to know myself. ”

"Yes." Shen Tai didn't dare to slack off and said.

"You've come just in time, and there's something for you to do." Shen Wandeng said.

Shen Tai said: "Childe, please command." ”

Shen Wandeng said: "From now on, just call me the battalion officer." Shen Wandeng said as he handed the letter in his hand to Shen Tai and said, "Look, Zhang Zhixian, you want us to go back to Xiping in batches to grant fields." And your five hundred acres of land. ”

The words "five hundred acres" seemed to be a sledgehammer smashed on Shen Tai's head at once, smashing Shen Tai dizzy, he only cared about his young master, but forgot that according to Zhang Xuan's system, he could divide five hundred acres of land.

Shen Tai has to be reused in the Shen family, but it is just a matter of reuse, and he wants to save 500 acres of land by himself, but he doesn't have to think about it, but now he is smashed in his hands all of a sudden. I don't know how to face it for a while, it stands to reason that he is a member of the Shen family, so he naturally wants to be for the Shen family

I think, but the temptation of 500 acres makes him really unable to refuse.

Shen Wandeng's eyes were very sharp, and he could see Shen Tai's struggle, which was why Shen Wandeng decided not to do anything.

Shen Tai grew up with him since he was a child, he was like a brother, and his feelings were the deepest, but he hesitated at the moment, not to mention the soldiers below, most of them were recruited by him when Zhenyang re-established his business. It is impossible to expect Eli to refuse the benefits that will be delivered to the door.

It makes no difference between what he does and what he doesn't do.

After Shen Wandeng sent Shen Tai away, he secretly said in his heart: "In the future, I will honestly mix under Zhang Xuan, I see that Zhang Xuan is not a mean person, maybe in the future, he can revive his family business again." "Thousands of acres of fertile land, even in the Shen family in its heyday, is not something that can be taken out casually.

Even the land granting affairs of the Xiping camp have also begun. The entire Runing Army, the Linying Battalion Horse Team, gave land on the east bank of the Ru River, the Nanyang Battalion gave land near Suiping, the Baoding Battalion gave land on the east bank of the Ru River, the Xiping Battalion, and Cai gave land on Xiping.

It seems that it was Zhang Su's idea, and the fields of the other battalions were placed together as much as possible, but the fields of the Xiping camp were divided into several pieces, and some of them went to Shangcai. Of course, Zhang Su also has a ready-made reason.

is that the land in Xiping is not enough, after all, Suiping and Xiping were originally Liu's territory, but after Suiping was defeated, Liu's land was taken over, but when Shen Wandeng went to Xiping, he wanted to obtain the support of the local gentry, and some of the land that was encroached upon by the Liu family was returned.

As a result, there is a shortage of land available for distribution in Xiping.

But it is still possible to place a battalion without enough to accommodate it.

It's just that Zhang Su is looking for a reason. Although Zhang Su is only a magistrate in Xiping, his intimate relationship with Zhang Xuan allows him to play a role that is definitely not limited to a magistrate, Shen Wandeng's Xiping camp is not the Xiping camp of the Shen family, but Zhang Xuan's Xiping camp, this kind of sigh is a direct embodiment of what Zhang Su did.

The land division lasted for half a month, and then it was completely over.

After that, it's time for intense spring ploughing.

Zhang Xuan presided over the bull whipping ceremony in Runing.

Among the onlookers of countless Runing people, Zhang Xuan, as the highest commander of Runing, held a horse whip in his hand, and whipped a heavy whip on a lively mud cow, and a deep trace suddenly appeared on the mud cow, and then let Zhang Zhen, Wang Jincai, Luo Dai, and other civil and military officials who stayed in Runing beat, it seems that the officers are very interested in this, and they didn't leave the mud cow for long at all, just you whip me and I whip the mud cow to pieces.

As soon as the mud cow was broken, hundreds of people stepped forward and snatched all the fragments of the mud cow.

It also marks the beginning of spring ploughing.

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