Chapter 426: Justified
At the end of October, the Hezhou Imperial Army and the Dingkun Army occupied the entire Kaifeng Mansion, as well as the Fuzhou County under the jurisdiction of the Kaifeng Mansion, which was called Nanjing Road. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
However, the busyness also began from this, and Wu Shaowu, who was promoted to the position of envoy of Henan Province step by step, knew very well what stability needed to rely on, and the time was approaching the end of the year, if the people were displaced because of the lack of food due to the war, the situation in the place could not be stable.
After obtaining Wu Shaogang's consent, Wu Shaowu boldly used a group of capable officials, and let some of them serve as county commanders to stabilize the local situation, Wu Shaogang knew very well that it was unrealistic to completely rely on the festival to make the yamen transport grain to maintain local stability, and it was necessary to base himself on himself, so when these officials went to the local office, Wu Shaowu taught them some "secrets", requiring them to do things conscientiously and do their best to stabilize the local area after they went to the locality.
The group of officials sent by Wu Shaowu was really powerful, and in a short period of time, they stabilized the place, and they did not ask the higher authorities to allocate too much grain.
Wu Shaogang has been temporarily stationed in Kaifeng Fucheng, did not return to Chengdu Fucheng, Li Tingzhi sent a letter, the imperial court sent the crown prince Shaobao, the palace of the front division of the army to command Sima Huaxuan, came to Sichuan to proclaim, asking Yunchuan Jiedu to make Wu Shaogang lead the army stationed in Sichuan, recover the Jingnan Road and Lianghuai and other places, and protect the Great Song Dynasty.
Such a decree has no meaning.
Of course, Wu Shaogang didn't care, but he was a little strange that Jia Yidao sent Ma Huaxuan to announce the decree.
The fourth master has stayed in Sichuan and will not return to the capital, Jingnan Road and many places in Lianghuai have fallen, and there is no need for the fourth master to return to the capital, and Su Wengkui, the messenger sent by Lu Wende, also stayed in Sichuan, and the city of Jiankang Mansion has been occupied by the Mongolian army.
After learning the news that Lu Wende had opened the gate of Jiankang Mansion City and returned to the Yuan court, Su Wengkui scolded and said that he had broken off with Lu Wende and chose to stay in Sichuan.
Wu Shaogang is more concerned about the stability of Henan Province, more than 100 years ago, here is the richest place in the Great Song Dynasty, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the prosperity and wealth of Kaifeng Mansion and Luoyang Mansion City, the crown of Beijing, after many years of war, Henan Province began to become decaying, after experiencing the cruel oppression of the Mongolian court, some larger cities came out, and the surrounding villages and towns have begun to wither.
There is also a reason for the cruel oppression of these places by the Mongolian court, after all, this was once the location of the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people were all dedicated to the Great Song Dynasty, which was difficult to domesticate, so the successive Great Khans of the Mongolian court would not be soft on Henan Province, and at the same time of cruel oppression, we must always be vigilant against the people here.
It's not that easy to stabilize such a place.
Wu Shaogang was very anxious, if every time he recovered a place, he needed to make the yamen take out a large amount of money and grain to stabilize the place, then with the acceleration of the battle process, the yamen always had unbearable time.
The method that Wu Shaowu came up with made Wu Shaogang's eyes light up.
In fact, there are still quite a few rich gentry in these places, and there is no way to find some way to force these rich gentry to come up with money and grain to maintain local stability.
Wu Shao didn't think about liquidating these gentry and rich households, looking through the history books, it was like this in all dynasties, there are always rich and poor, as long as the rich feel at ease and don't do things that are rich and unkind, the local area is stable, as for the poor, they can get the care of the government and not starve to death, they can also be stable.
Besides, what Wu Shaogang ultimately needs to rely on is the gentry and wealthy class, and he can't rely on ordinary people to stabilize his country, if he wants to maintain the current regime with the theory of a thousand years later, it is to find death.
Wu Shaogang specifically warned Wu Shaowu that he needed to pay attention to the strategy, not to forcibly expropriate, let alone implement the method of raiding the house and robbing the house, when Wu Shaowu chose those officials who were extremely familiar with the state and county yamen and capable to serve as the chief officials in the local area, Wu Shaogang was not worried at all, these officials were too familiar with those gentry and rich households, and knew what to do.
Sure enough, more than a month has passed, and the entire Henan province is calm.
Hao Jing, Zhang Wenqian and others did not particularly agree with the matter of sending officials to serve as the chief officials of the county government, they thought that these people were not knowledgeable, but Wu Shaogang agreed, and it was Wu Shaowu's decision, so it was difficult for them to oppose it openly.
The opinions of Hao Jing and Zhang Wenqian and others actually attracted Wu Shaogang's attention, he knew that the contradictions between scholars and others were inferior, only reading was high, and scholars called themselves Confucian scholars, excluding people who had no knowledge, even if they were super capable and just not knowledgeable.
In fact, the ability of capable officials at the grassroots level to act as government affairs is far stronger than some pedantic people and even jinshi, but it is a pity that the system of previous dynasties has made it difficult for these officials to have a bright future.
This is what Wu Shaogang needs to pay attention to, and what needs to be improved in the future.
At the beginning of December, Wu Shaogang's order was issued again.
The army led by Cai Siwei and Zhang Binghui attacked in two ways, attacking the South Hebei Road and the North Hebei Road respectively, striving to completely occupy these places in about three months, so that the places under the command of Wu Shaogang were basically connected.
When the army led by Cai Siwei and Zhang Binghui set off, the 20,000 soldiers of the imperial army of Hezhou who were dispatched from Chengdu Fucheng also arrived in Kaifeng Fucheng and were responsible for guarding Henan Province.
Sichuan and Yunnan and other places belong to Wu Shaogang's core base areas, and the localities are already very stable and do not need too many large troops to guard them, while many places in Henan Province that have just been captured still need the army to maintain law and order.
The army stationed in Henan Province also has the task of completely exterminating the local bandits.
The brutal oppression of the Great Yuan Dynasty for many years has led to a lot of bandits in these places, and some bandits have even colluded with the government to exploit the people.
After the army led by Cai Siwei and Zhang Binghui started, Ma Huaxuan also came to Kaifeng Fucheng.
Ma Huaxuan came to Kaifeng Mansion with the army.
When Wu Shaogang entered the urging army of the front division of the palace, Ma Huaxuan was the commander of the envoy, so many years have passed, Wu Shaogang is already the envoy of the Yunchuan Festival, the prince of the dynasty, Ma Huaxuan is still the commander of the army of the front of the palace.
When he met Wu Shaogang, Ma Huaxuan's attitude was extremely respectful, which was completely different from back then.
Wu Shaogang didn't feel uncomfortable, all this was taken for granted.
Seeing Wu Shaogang, Ma Huaxuan did not take out the emperor's holy decree, and did not even mention the matter of recovering Jingnan Road and Lianghuai.
After chatting for a while, it was Wu Shaogang who took the initiative to ask Ma Huaxuan, and Ma Huaxuan answered.
Ma Huaxuan's answer was beyond Wu Shaogang's expectations.
Ma Huaxuan believes that in the current situation, there is no need to recover the Jingnan Road and Lianghuai and other places, and it is impossible to have any practical effect in doing so, the Mongolian army is gathered in these places, and the morale is high, and more importantly, many imperial army troops stationed in Jingnan Road and Lianghuai have also surrendered to the Mongolian army, so that the strength of the Mongolian army has been enhanced.
Ma Huaxuan believed that the army could march to the east or north, and the best option was to march north.
Wu Shaogang nodded slightly while listening, it seems that Ma Huaxuan is not a waste material, he still has good cognitive ability.
From Ma Huaxuan's answer, Wu Shaogang also heard some clues, that is, many adults in the capital may have understood his Wu Shaogang's ambitions, but they just didn't say it.
After talking with Ma Huaxuan, Wu Shaogang invited Ma Huaxuan to stay in Sichuan, but Ma Huaxuan naturally did not refuse, expressing his willingness to stay in Sichuan and serve Wu Shaogang.
Then, Ma Huaxuan also made a special trip to the palace and knelt outside the palace.
In this case, Wu Shaogang no longer felt strange, after many scholars from Yunchuan School came to Kaifeng Fucheng, they all made a special trip to the palace to kneel and worship, and even Wu Shaowu, who moved the yamen to Kaifeng Fucheng, also went to worship outside the palace.
In mid-December, Wu Shaogang was enshrined by the emperor as the king of Wei, and the edict was issued to the world.
Wu Shaogang naturally also knew.
According to the rules of the imperial court, Wu Shaogang, who was canonized as the king of Wei, was able to open a government and appoint officials, and the setting of the palace was like a small court.
It is always unreasonable to use the festival to make the yamen to rule many things in Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces, after all, Wu Shaogang is only the envoy of the Yunchuan festival, but it is completely okay to rule these places with the palace.
Hao Jing and Zhang Wenqian immediately suggested that since the emperor and the imperial court had issued an edict, then the Wei palace should be set up to oversee all matters, and the yamen could focus on local matters.
Wu Shaogang agreed to the suggestions of Hao Jing, Zhang Wenqian and others.
The imperial court named him the king of Wei, which can be regarded as relieving the urgent need, and always doing things as the envoy of Yunchuan Festival, which inevitably makes many officials below mutter, doing things as a prince, and the officials below must be much more at ease.