Chapter 185: Decision-making
"Zhongtai, Donglai's affairs will be handed over to you for the time being!" Turning over the horse, Yan Shao said to Sun Guan, who was dressed in military uniform. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Without the heavy armor, this action is chic and neat, and it looks easy.
"Please rest assured, the Lord will definitely exterminate all the traitors in the county in the shortest possible time!" Sun Guan hurriedly hugged his fists.
"I believe in you." As he spoke, he glanced at the civil and military forces of Donglai County behind him, smiled at Sun Guan, and led the other generals back to the army. The army marched slowly along the road from which it came, and the flags were held high along the way, attracting the peasants who were farming on both sides of the road to bow their heads in awe.
After Cai Qi's head was cut off by Haoqiang in the county, almost everyone knew that Donglai had changed the sky, and this day was Yan Shao.
"General!" When Yan Shao's back disappeared far away, a group of civil and military officers in the county immediately surrounded him with flattering expressions.
Now that the position of the county guard of Donglai County has not been resolved, there is no way, Yan Shao is just a Beihai county guard, and he is not qualified to appoint someone else to be another county guard. Unless he wants to learn from Gongsun Zhan. At least until he became the official Qingzhou Thorn History, he couldn't touch this right.
But no one denied that the entire Donglai County was already under Yan Shao's control. In addition to the county guard, almost all official positions in Donglai County were appointed by Yan Shao himself, and many of them were cronies brought by Yan Shao.
In addition, Donglai's own soldiers and horses have been lost, and the only thing that can be used now is the few remaining officers and soldiers, and the rest is the Dare to Pioneer Army in Sun Guan's hands. At this time, who is speaking louder, almost at a glance. What's more, the people who dared to go to the scene have also seen it, and the impact of such elites on them is unimaginable.
"Looking at this time, I have been entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the lord, and I will bother you to help you next." Sun Guan can also speak, hugging his fists in front of everyone, and his words are very polite, so that he is an ordinary martial artist, which also makes those who are worried breathe a sigh of relief.
To be honest, they were really worried that they would run into a simple martial artist, and if nothing else, communication alone would be a problem.
"How dare you, to have such a heroic commander like a general to lead such a strong army to stay in the county, it is we who should thank the general for Donglai." The leader named Zhang Nian hurriedly spoke, saying that he had already bowed to Sun Guan. "If General Lao suppresses the rebellion in the county, the whole county will thank the general for his kindness..."
There was no need for anyone to take the lead, those behind him had already bowed down. "Thank you for the kindness of the general..."
To be honest, following Yan Shao for so long, Sun Guan has really never been treated like this, and he was a little flustered for a while, and hurriedly helped Zhang Nian up. "Where, where, since you have been ordered by the Lord, you should go all out..."
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It should be said that Dongnae County is still a very good place, next to the sea, you can fish and boil salt, it is much better than the county that has no characteristics at all. But sometimes it's not always a good thing to be close to the sea, especially when there is a tsunami.
Coupled with the natural and man-made disasters for many years, the yellow turbans in Donglai County are numerous. If it weren't for Tai Shici helping to harvest a batch before, I'm afraid that there would still be a lot of yellow scarves in Donglai County now.
Considering the strength of Donglai County alone, it is almost whimsical to solve this problem, and even consider whether it will be seized by the remnants of the Yellow Turbans who are struggling to surviveββββββ the current garrison force of Donglai County is unprecedentedly weak, even if it is a place like Huangxian County, the available force does not exceed five hundred. Those remnants may not be able to break through the city, but it is still okay to go around the details of the city.
If you really leave it alone, there will be no need to care about it in the future. Since ancient times, the rebel armies of all dynasties have not worried that there are no soldiers, as long as the people can not survive, there are as many soldiers as they want, because the so-called rebel armies are usually composed of those people who cannot eat.
As long as they make a good fuss about Donglai County, when more people can't eat, there will naturally be soldiers and horses. I dare not say more, there must be tens of thousands.
Therefore, before this, Yan Shao needs to sort out some hidden dangers in Donglai, especially the rebels and thieves who are still active.
Yan Shao had considered whether to leave some soldiers and horses, but after discussing with Tai Shici and others, he found that the effect of doing so might not be very good. Why is the yellow turban so difficult to exterminate, in addition to being good at hiding, the most important thing is the incompetence of the local officials and soldiers. The soldiers and horses of the North Sea are brave and good at fighting, but how many soldiers and horses should be left is one thing.
Considering that the number of yellow turbans in the local area is still scattered, if it is less than 3,000, even if it is effective, I don't know how many years it will take to exterminate these rebels. For such a long time, Yan Shao couldn't afford it.
He doesn't have many soldiers and horses in his hands, and after defeating Cai Qi, the remaining counties may also need to spend some twists and turns, and there are definitely a lot of places where soldiers and horses need to be used. If so many troops were to be spent on exterminating the Yellow Turban, I am afraid it would slow him down.
Therefore, it has become inevitable to mobilize some more powerful and capable troops, and the first thing that Yan Shao thought of was to dare to go first. As the most elite unit under Yan Shao's command, the scale of the Dare First Army has reached 1,000 people, and each of them has the strength of a captain or even a long level, coupled with strict training, whether it is horse combat or foot combat, it is equally proficient, and even water warfare is a little bit better because of the experience in the Yangtze River, at least it will never vomit to death because of seasickness.
Transferring Sun Guan and the Dare First Army to encircle and suppress the Donglai Yellow Turban, the effect will inevitably be obviousββββββ even if it is not obvious, it doesn't matter, in Yan Shao's prediction, there are very few places where the Dare First Army can play a useful role in the process of unifying Qingzhou, and it can completely give Sun Guan more time to exterminate the Yellow Turban.
And he also needs to have a trustworthy person to control the affairs of Donglai County during this period.
One of the most critical is Tuntian...
Tuntian is definitely a good thing for the people, but I am afraid it may not be for the family.
What should the land of the family do with the land that is distributed to the people for nothing, or even let them cultivate it almost for free? What's more, Yan Shao also gave so many benefits to the people of Tuntian on the issue of sharing. When I was poured, I was afraid that as soon as Donglai's Tuntian policy came out, it would be as popular as Beihai.
The reason why there were not so many problems in Tuntian in history is not unrelated to the oppression of Tuntian. However, this method of farming did not last long, and there were not enough benefits, so it could not stimulate the people to work hard to cultivate. At first, it may be nothing, in order to survive, in order to have enough food, even if it is squeezed miserably, it doesn't matter, but when the world is peaceful and the troubled times have passed, can you still expect the people to continue to farm for such a harvest?
Of course, this consideration is more or less far for Yan Shao, but Yan Shao is also doing this to attract more people to Beihai. Fighting a war is all kinds of resources, including human resources. In history, why was Cao Wei able to suppress Eastern Wu and Western Shu all the time? In addition to problems such as the ability of successors, one of the most fundamental reasons is that there are not enough resources, especially human resources.
There are no more people to fight, what war is there to talk about?
In addition to being a magnificent and epic war in the history of China, the entire Three Kingdoms period was also a fratricidal war. In the end, it is almost as to who has more population left, and Yan Shao can't help but mention this kind of thing.
In history, Dongwu was able to compete with Cao Wei for so long, and it was not because it absorbed enough people in the early stage.
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Yan Shaozhi is not worried at all about whether the Dare Xianjun can deal with Donglai's Yellow Turban, you must know that after being taught a lesson by Tai Shici, Donglai's Yellow Turban vitality has been greatly damaged, and it is no longer a climate. If the Dare Xianjun, who was trained by Yan Shao as an elite, couldn't even solve such a little Yellow Turban remnant, then he would really be sorry for the money he spent on the Dare Xianjun.
I have to say that Yan Shao's move is still very popular in Donglai.
With the information provided by the families in the county, Sun Guan's Dare to Pioneer is like an extremely sharp knife, which can cut in the most appropriate place every time. The Yellow Turbans in Donglai County are basically fighting on their own, and the thieves of only three to five thousand can't resist the iron hooves of the Dare to First Army.
Even if they are a little more witty, it is useless to retreat into the mountains and forests, hoping to use the mountains and forests to block the iron hooves of the cavalry. Because the Dare First Army was not originally specially trained for cavalry warfare, not only could they rush into battle immediately, but they could also fight the camp when they dismounted. And after arriving in the mountains and forests, the strong personal martial arts of the Dare First Army played an advantage.
Although it was not as effective as when they rode their horses on the plains, the Yellow Turban thieves who retreated into the mountains and forests were still defeated.
In just a few days, the number of thieves who have been exterminated has reached three or four thousand, which is almost equivalent to one-third of all the yellow turbans in Donglai County, and their own casualties are only about a dozen people, of which only more than ten people were killed, and many of the injured ones accidentally injured themselves when they entered the mountains and forests. It is not surprising that the training method of the Dare to First Army is indeed to be able to charge into battle on horseback, and to be able to fight the camp when dismounting. But mountain warfare or something, I really haven't trained ...
In addition, he was wearing a heavy armor on his body, and when he entered the mountains and forests, he was definitely not as agile as the thieves who retreated into the mountains and forests, and it was not surprising that he would be injured.
In Sun's view, exterminating some thieves was nothing at all, but his actions brought him great prestige.
In the past, those thieves had been hiding in the mountains and wilderness, roaring in the mountains and forests, or going down the mountains to loot villages, or plundering merchants, and the losses caused to the family and the people were not small. It's just that there has been no way to solve it, the people can only endure it silently, and the family also has a channel to contact a little and give some travel expenses, and those who have no channels can only send additional guards, hoping to make the other party retreat.
Now that Sun Guan has exterminated a lot of these thieves, how can he not let Donglai boil up and down?
Even with Yan Shao's belonging, there are many more, even those familiesββββββ they don't refuse to serve others, the real question is what kind of people they serve.
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Yan Shao can return victorious, this is what most people expected, but I am afraid that not everyone can guess that he can come back so soon. Anyway, Donglai County is also a county that is not inferior to Beihai in area, even if it can't be compared with Beihai, it stands to reason that it should be able to hold on for a while longer.
However, Yan Shao's return still attracted great cheers.
At least when they returned to the city, the people welcomed and cheered for the return of their lords.
"How's that, Hansheng, how are you feeling in Beihai these past few days?" After washing away the dust along the way and changing into a gorgeous dress, Yan Shao said to Huang Zhong in the mansion with a smile.
"Although it is not as good as Xiangyang, it is also a prosperous place..."Huang Zhong exclaimed, but there was no falsehood.
Although Beihai is not as good as Xiangyang, during this period of time, under the governance of Yan Shao, it is also one of the few more prosperous counties in the world, and it cannot be ranked in the top five, and the top ten can still barely enter it. If it weren't for the fact that there were other counties dragging behind, even Qingzhou's might be much stronger than it is now, which made Huang Zhong a little surprised.
Yan Shao is also a little proud of the prosperity under his rule. However, he still inquired about Huang Xu's condition.
Since Yan Shao and his party separated from Huang Zhong and them, because there was nothing to wait, the group rushed to Beihai without any hurry. By the time they arrived in Beihai, Yan Shao hadn't even captured Huangxian.
The climate in the north, except for the winter is a little difficult, is actually better in most cases.
After arriving in Beihai, there was a relatively stable treatment environment, and Huang Xu's condition was also recovering very quickly. Now that he can even go out for a walk, Huang Zhong also began to think about whether to wait for his body to recover, and hand over his martial arts to Huang Xuββββββ who is also one of the strongest generals in this era, if this body's martial arts are lost, it will be a pity, not to mention that there is also that extremely powerful archery.
It's just that Yan Shao has some doubts about whether Huang Xu can learn Huang Zhong's archery, Huang Zhong's archery is not just as simple as piercing Yang in a hundred steps, but more importantly, it is also in power. The arrows used in a large bow more than a person tall are no different from those of a small javelin, and if they are shot, even if they are grazed, they will be seriously injured. But to pull such a big bow, the force required is beyond most people's imagination.
Even if Huang Xu can learn the archery skills, it may not be easy to learn this kind of strength. This requires not only nurture but also talent.
Even if Huang Xu was born, it would not be easy to inherit such a talent. However, Yan Shao didn't pour cold water on Huang Zhong's enthusiasm, but just smiled and comforted.
In addition to Huang Xu's matter, Yan Shao also wanted the other people in the banquet to ask about other things that happened during his departure.
For example, the progress of Tuntian, the state of military readiness, etc. These are the most important things at the moment, and in addition, I quietly asked about Cai Yan. After learning that the people of the Cai family were basically arranged and lived in Beihai City, Yan Shao also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although I can't take care of Cai Yan's affairs at the moment, I can't guarantee when Yan Shao will be free?
He was really interested in such a pretty widow.
But what's more important right now...
"Donglai Cai has been broken by me, but if the son is in the hands of Dong Thief today, it is temporarily impossible to appoint a county guard for Donglai, so we have to take care of it temporarily. Waiting for the next day to eliminate the Dong thief, rescue the Son of Heaven, and then ask for another order, this is the best policy. β
No matter what he thinks in his heart, as long as he has to live on face, Yan Shao is not good to tell his subordinates directly that he plans to rebel, and he doesn't plan to listen to what Chang'an says at all, and it is good to use the Son of Heaven being used as an excuse by Dong Zhuo.
"The lord, if the lord wants to support the Han family and crusade against the traitors, he must not have soldiers, horses, money and food in his hands. Now that Jiao He is dead, Qingzhou has no owner, this group of dragons has no leader, and the lord should establish himself as the lord of Qingzhou, so it is justifiable..."This time it was Dong Zhao next to him who spoke.
In fact, he had already told Yan Shao about this, but now he was just repeating it again in front of everyone.
However, his remarks were very much in line with the appetite of everyone present, Donglai County Guard, this position has long made the eyes of everyone who has followed Yan Shao for a long time. The so-called official promotion has always been the best way to reward his subordinates. And for most of Yan Shao's subordinates, the head of a county is also the maximum they can imagine.
If Yan Shao made one of his subordinates a county guard, he was afraid that this person's loyalty would immediately explode. But now Yan Shao is just a county guard, and he doesn't have this right or this name, so how can everyone not be a pity.
Especially Tai Shici, everyone has discussed in private that if he really gets a Donglai Taishou out, he is the most promising one. didn't say anything about this on the surface, but in fact, Tai Shi Ci was a little excited in his heartββββββ who didn't want to return to his hometown, not to mention that Tai Shi Ci was still in Liaodong to avoid trouble.
If you can take the title of Donglai Taishou back to Huangxian County, there is nothing more beautiful than this.
Therefore, as soon as Dong Zhao's words fell, a group of people already met the requirements.
"This is slightly the same as what I thought..."Yan Shao didn't plan to pour cold water on his cronies, besides, they were all his own people, so it was not good to be too pretentious." However, the two counties want to establish themselves as the lord of Qingzhou, which is inevitably a bit unjustifiable, I Beihai has prospered over the years, but the core of Qingzhou has always been Qi country, the so-called snake has no head, now the counties of Qingzhou do their own thing, this is by no means the way to survive in the troubled times, a certain is not only Beihai Taishou, but also has the ambition of the madman in the world, how can I sit idly by, I intend to recruit soldiers and horses, and after a month to march westward, what do you think? β
Everyone looked at each other and said in unison.
"The lord is wise!"