Chapter Forty-Seven: County Sima Lao Xinde
After the baptism of rain, all things in nature are clean and prosperous, a rare tranquility in the mountains, no birds and beasts run, the environment at this time is like a portrayal of Lao Zhang's heart, everything looks so beautiful, everything is developing in a good direction, exciting, there is a hearty pride. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Lao Zhang longs for a war to succeed, a war to get the rights, wealth, fame, status, women he wants, he needs to prove himself, not live in the shadow of his father, under his protection in order to succeed. This time, he thought hard about the plan for several days before it took shape, and then he put it into action after a detailed argument with his staff, otherwise, he would still choose to forbear and compromise.
I have to say that the White Turban Army created an opportunity for him, first broke through the Zhendong camp and killed Lao Jiang, the right-hand man of Sima Lao Xinde, although it weakened the military strength of Donghai County, Lao Zhang felt that as long as Donghai County was still there, sooner or later he would be able to pull up his soldiers and horses to fight a good battle with the White Turban Army, and he won, at that time all the credit would be his, and his prestige would reach the highest at that time, and he would no longer need to look at the faces of his uncles and uncles.
Among these uncles, the biggest obstacle to him is undoubtedly Lao Xinde, who is on a front with his half-brother Lao Feng, if Lao Zhang wants to make a difference, he must move Lao Xinde away and establish his own military and political forces, therefore, his first plan is to drive Lao Xinde to Wuxian County to resist the White Turban Army, which is a two-pronged thing, one can split Lao Xinde, and the other is that the war will weaken the strength of Lao Xinde and the White Turban Army.
Among the 10,000 sailors in Donghai County, nearly 7,000 soldiers and horses are Lao Xinde's descendants, and they are not controlled by Lao Zhang at all, but they are still yang and yin on the surface, which makes Lao Zhang unable to start, and he does not dare to act rashly, even if his father supports him, sometimes he can't be sure that after really tearing his face with Lao Xinde, his father, who has not asked about political affairs for several years, can influence the situation and how many troops can control.
Lao Xinde's 7,000 soldiers and horses can completely dominate the situation in Donghai County, this is where Lao Zhang is deeply afraid of Lao Xinde, if Lao Zhang wants to call for wind and rain in Donghai County, he must first control Lao Xinde's troops in his hands, otherwise everything is empty talk.
The first step is to transfer away from the hostile forces, then the second step is to expand their own strength, in this era of cold weapons, there is only one way to expand strength, that is, to increase the number of troops, the strength is the people, although Donghai County is vast and has few people, but there are nearly 200,000 people.
The key is that it is very difficult to form a fighting force in a short period of time, and at the same time, to raise such a large number of troops, the amount of grain, grass, and military salaries required is huge, and this will inevitably increase the financial burden of Donghai County, and there will certainly be many problems in all aspects.
It's just that in extraordinary times, there are not so many things to take care of, and the first to suffer from wars is the common people, and the superiors can consider these issues of benevolence and morality, but they don't have to be entangled in the concept of benevolence and morality, and they can choose freely.
The next day's Donghai County Conference, as usual, was held as usual, originally according to Lao Xinde's prediction, the meeting would still be dissolved in the midst of the dispute, however, this time he was disappointed, because, before the conference was dispersed, Donghai County Taishou entered the Taishou Council Hall angrily.
The thunderous labor did not allow everyone to see the salute, it was a loud scolding, the scolding of these officials and bosses in Donghai County was faceless, ashamed, only hated that there was no gap in the ground to drill into, in the end, Lao Xinde had not completely calmed down, the second monk was puzzled, and after the work was over, he issued a too shou order, and Lao Xinde immediately led 7,000 sailors to Wuxian County to resist the White Turban Army.
Before Lao Xinde could refute, the other officials had already nodded and agreed, and in desperation, he could only bow down and thank him. Afterwards, Lao Xinde became more courageous, sobered up, and went to the Taishou Mansion to ask for a meeting in person, but was kicked out after work, and scolded him more ruthlessly and viciously, but he was not immediately relieved of his position as the county sima, but the meaning of the end of labor could not be clearer, if you don't go to Wuxian County to resist the White Turban Army, you just wait to go home and farm.
In the afternoon of the same day, Lao Xinde summoned a total of 5,000 people and 50 warships from the left and right battalions of the navy stationed in Dalang Lake, set sail, went upstream, and rushed to Wuxian, and the other 1,000 cavalry rushed to Wuxian by dry road, and rushed to the aid of Wuxian as fast as possible, in case Wuxian was attacked and fell into the hands of the White Turban Army.
The other 1,000 soldiers led 20,000 people to transport grain and grass, and these 20,000 people had to be summoned before they could be counted, and the number of people who could be summoned in the entire Donghai County was about 10,000, and it was not half a day to be able to count them all, and the other 10,000 had to be called in other counties.
Therefore, Lao Zhang soon issued a Taishou order, summoned the people to transport grain, and at the same time issued a conscription order, the White Turban Army was in turmoil, and all strong men with the heart of meritorious service could join the army to resist the White Turban Army, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and return to their hometown.
In the open, there is a Taishou order promulgated, and secretly Lao Zhang also issued a Taishou order, Lao Zhang also sent another team of people to the Huoyue Camp, and the status of the leader is not low, but it is the envoy of Donghai County, Lao Zao, the parent official who is responsible for the handling of cases in Donghai County, and he is still Lao Zhang's uncle in terms of blood relationship, and he trusts him extremely much for his uncle Lao Zhang, otherwise he would not hand over such an important matter to him.
This time, Lao Zhang wants to reuse the Huoyue people, but it's not that he wants to say that he will reuse it, and if he doesn't show some sincerity and blood, the Huoyue people won't work hard, he Lao Zhang knows this very well, because they have implemented a policy of ignoring the Huoyue people, deducting military salaries, grain and grass, regardless of killing the enemy's military merits, the means can be said to be extremely despicable.
In order to show sincerity, Lao Zhang deliberately asked Lao Zao to bring the grain and gold and silver of the deducted part of the Huoyue Battalion's salary to appease the military heart of the Huoyue people, win over the goodwill, and pay off all the deducted food and salary at once, Lao Zhang felt that it was not necessary, this matter needed to be plotted slowly, and the hatred of the Huoyue people towards his Donghai County would definitely be difficult to eliminate, he was sure of this.
In the past, the Huoyue people went to Donghai County to receive food and military salaries in person, but this time, Ling Lao Zao brought people and horses to the Huoyue Camp with food, which really made the Huoyue Camp feel strange and puzzled.
This envoy Ling is more or less aware of the affairs of the Huoyue Camp, and naturally knows what the situation is, and on the way here, he has already thought of countermeasures to deal with it, and when he saw Mars, he said with a haha, and he said very kindly: "Mars General Flag, I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss it very much, but today I sent you something good." ”
Although the envoy is not a powerful and powerful figure in Donghai County, he is more or less an official from Donghai County, although Mars resents Donghai County, he still can't ignore it, after all, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, so when they meet the gate of the Huoyue camp, they can be regarded as giving Lao Zao enough face.
Mars has no friendship with this Lao Zao, that is, he has met once at the banquet, and he has rarely seen him in the future, and he has met occasionally, but he has not said a word, and now this kind of set is almost so disgusting, and he can't imagine that there are such cheeky people in this world.
"I don't know what good things the labor envoy has sent, but it can open my eyes." Mars said calmly, he couldn't be happy about Lao Zao's hippie smile.
"If you lack something now, I'll send you something, and you say it's a good thing." Lao Zao still said with a smile, as if he didn't see the cold look of Mars.
"Your cart is full of grain?" Mars was a little incredulous, some time ago he went to ask for food but said no, but he obviously didn't give it, and now he sent it to the door.
"It's all grain, ten tons, enough for you to eat for a month." Lao Zao said happily, he thought that the people of Huoyue should be happy to see these grains.
"This food was given to our Fire Moon Camp." Mars wanted to confirm a question that made his head spin, and Mars couldn't help but be moved.