Chapter 235: Nanyang Strengthens the Army
What should come will come, just as what should go must go.
He Xian was twenty miles outside Wancheng and greeted He Jin's body. Compared to He Zhen's heartbreak when he died, this time, He Xian was a little numb. In other words, he has been mentally prepared for this all these years. He tried to fight, tried to change, but in the end, He Jin still died. It was supposed to die at the hands of the Ten Standing Attendants, but now it is at the hands of Yuan Shu.
Although He Jin is dead, the storm against He is not over. At least, there is He Miao, the second uncle, Huang Yueying, the fiancée who has not passed through the door, and the brothers under his command who are attached to the He family. The real battle has just begun!
"Brothers! Before the death of the first emperor, he entrusted me to protect the Han Dynasty and the Han family! Nowadays, the court is in charge, and the general is unfortunately killed. Whether it is to avenge my father or to fulfill the last wish of the first emperor, I, He Xian, will definitely send troops to Luoyang, the side of the Qing monarch, and return the Han Dynasty to a peace! ”
"We are willing to follow the lord, the Qing monarch, and return the Han to a peace!" Guo Jia suddenly dismounted, and was the first to echo him.
This "lord" is meaningful.
He Xian was slightly surprised, Zhao Yun, Wen Ping, Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, Gao Shun and other generals dismounted one after another, knelt on one knee, and echoed in unison: "We will swear to follow the lord to the death!" ”
"I'll follow the lord to the death!" Five thousand people from the five schools of the Northern Army swore in unison!
"I'll follow the lord to the death!" Behind He Xian, Li Yan, Wen Xiang, Wei He and others led hundreds of Nanyang County soldiers, and they also knelt down on one knee to serve the Dao.
At this moment, He Xian felt that all the 108,000 pores in his body were opened! Is this what it's like to be in power? It is no wonder that after Liu Wei ascended the throne, his heart changed greatly. In order to consolidate his imperial power, he will do whatever it takes, and even destroy family affection. Emperor, no wonder they all sneered so much. Relatively speaking, Emperor Han Ling, who only knows pleasure, has a tolerance for his relatives, which is really incomprehensible......
He Jin's body was also transported back to Wuyang, not far below He Zhen's tomb. When He Jin was alive, he was an official outside all the year round, which was not very filial. After death, let him accompany He Zhen well. The bodies of Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Guo Sheng and others were buried in Funiu Mountain outside Nanyang City, and He Xian ordered people to set up a monument: the tomb of the ten permanent servants. Let these hateful, poor people have a home after death.
After simply dealing with these things, He Xian put more energy on Nanyang military affairs! He Xian has a hunch that the big war is about to break out!
Nanyang County, since the stationing of the 5,000 North Military Academy Captains, there are more than 10,000 regular Han troops in Nanyang County. At the same time as the strength has soared, the army's equipment, military supplies, money, food and materials have also doubled! But fortunately, the current Nanyang County is no longer the Nanyang County of five years ago!
Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion was pacified, Nanyang County has been purged of officials, cleared mountain bandits, absorbed displaced people, and reclaimed wasteland. And He Xian's people's commune movement, which was like a prank and started among the bandits, actually took root in Nanyang County and was in full swing. In this era when the production materials are relatively loose, but based on integrity, and most of the people do not know how to cheat and cheat, the planned economy of mutual assistance and mutual benefit is simply tailor-made for Nanyang after the war.
At that time, more than 100,000 Yellow Turban thieves who were captured made great contributions to the grain production and economic development of Nanyang County. Because of the five years of labor reform, the government only needs to provide them with basic clothing, food, shelter and transportation, and all other outputs belong to the government and the people of Nanyang. Now, these remnants of the Yellow Turban have basically turned into Nanyang residents and enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Han Dynasty.
The current Nanyang County is not at the developed level, but at least the family's treasury is full of grain, and the family has decent clothes to wear. During the New Year's holidays, you can also eat a meal of meat and pull a few new pieces of cloth for your children. In the dead of night, a few pieces of scattered gold can be turned out of the dark compartment under the kang as a life-saving reserve currency. In the 36 counties under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County, the official warehouses in each county are full of grain reserves. Every year, new grain is harvested, and the excess old grain will be bought for surrounding counties in exchange for raw materials such as iron ore and cotton and linen. These raw materials are processed by the Nanyang Iron Foundry and the Nanyang Textile Factory to make finished products, which are preferentially supplied to the Nanyang area. The wealthy finished products are then sold to the surrounding counties. Such a cycle of travel, Nanyang Daye!
The biggest advantage of the planned economy is that it can concentrate and maximize the limited resources and do the most urgent things!
Iron foundries have stopped the construction of civilian materials, and made all efforts to make iron armor, broadswords, spears, arrows and other weapons and armor. Huang Yueying, as the master of the ink technique, improved the casting process after arriving in Nanyang. He advocates the use of assembly line and standard method to build, so that the production efficiency is greatly improved!
In fact, as early as the Qin Dynasty, China recognized the advantages of the standardized model. The arrows of the Qin army and the casting of bricks of the Great Wall are all in the mode of unified standards and assembly lines. The biggest advantage of this is that it does not require the individual skills of the craftsman, as long as everyone operates according to a certain mode, the things created will not be bad. This greatly increases production. Secondly, the point of standardization is that it can be replaced and supplemented at any time. Standardization is especially important for consumables such as arrows!
For example, when cleaning the battlefield, some arrows and arrows are broken and not sharp; In some cases, the shaft of the arrow is broken, but the arrow is still sharp. If they are standardized products, then they only need to change the arrows and arrow shafts, and they can be operated on the front line, and they can be put into use directly after the operation, without having to go back to the city for a second repair and construction. Inside, it is equivalent to several layers of arrows. In peacetime, this is a way to save military spending and improve the combat effectiveness of the army; At critical moments, this can be a lifesaver. The same is true of arrows, spears and spears.
In addition to equipment and weapons, Nanyang Garment Factory made new Han army uniforms with new fabric main materials in accordance with He Xian's requirements! These military uniforms were made by He Xian with reference to the military uniforms of the People's Liberation Army in later generations, which are durable and conducive to concealment. More importantly, the unified uniform represents a unified army, a unified organization, which is a sense of belonging and symbolism. On a spiritual level, this makes the troops more cohesive.
At the same time, He Xian vigorously improved the treatment of the military and properly resettled the military dependents. Let Nanyang County form an atmosphere of one person joining the army and the whole family being glorious.
He Xian's specific training ability is not as good as Wen Ping, Wei Yan and others, but in terms of the guarantee of weapons and equipment and the construction of spiritual civilization in the army, He Xian's thinking is definitely a distance of 2,000 years from this era.
The Nanyang Army will definitely become the strongest army of the Han Dynasty!