Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Discussion of Expanding the Army (I)

As He Fangxiong expected, although Peng Chaodong privately discussed peace with Meng Gu after leaving Liaodong, which became a major stain on Peng Chaodong's career, and lost Phoenix City during the heavy army, Goryeo abandoned Zhao and surrendered to Liao. The officials and officials of the Zhejiang Party led by Lu Zongcheng constantly attacked Peng Chaodong, but none of these could shake Song Yuren's trust in Peng Chaodong. In Song Yuren's eyes, Peng Chaodong is still the success of Da Zhao.

Peng Chaodong's sponsorship of He Tengxiao as the battalion commander Song Yuren quickly approved.

The officers of the military department were also very diligent and unexpectedly efficient, and a month later, He Tengxiao received a new tuft of the formal and regular clothes of the military attaché of the fourth grade, as well as a gold waist plate carved with a tiger pattern.

After He Tengxiao handed over to the envoy of the imperial court, the envoy hurried back to Beijing to resume his life. After doing all this, He Tengxiao really became a general. Become a rising star in Liaodong.

The speed of He Tengxiao's promotion is staggering, and he was promoted to battalion general again in less than a year after he was promoted to Qianhu, which is unique in Liaodong and even in the entire Dazhao, which can be described as unprecedented, but it is not necessarily unprecedented.

The news of He Tengxiao's promotion to battalion general spread like the wind throughout Liaodong, and He Tengxiao became the focus of attention of various forces in Liaodong. Although he was promoted, He Tengxiao still lives in the small Pingshanbao Qianhu Mansion, and the only difference from the one thousand is that the plaque on the lintel has been changed from the Pingshanbao Qianhu Mansion to the Xiaoqi Battalion General's Mansion.

According to the unwritten rules of the He family, once a child of the He family is promoted to the military position of battalion general, the He family will unconditionally set aside a piece of land from the jurisdiction of the three states of the He family and reward the child as an incentive. It also serves as an example to encourage the children of the He family to be proactive and become generals to magnify the He family. There is no clear rule as to the size of the land to be rewarded, but it is up to the child to choose and finally the head of the family to approve it. As long as the request is not too excessive, the head of the house will generally agree. There are not many generals among the children of the four major families in Liaodong, and which one has more generals is something worth raising eyebrows about, and the He family has always been generous to this and will not care about this matter.

Of course, these lands cannot be inherited permanently, and the period of inheritance is the third generation, after which it will be returned to the He family. This is somewhat similar to the title inherited by the third generation of the Great Zhao Empire.

He Shihu was both happy and worried when he learned that He Tengxiao was promoted to battalion general. Happily, he is also optimistic about He Tengxiao, He Tengxiao is promoted to a battalion general, and the army can be expanded into a battalion, and he also has a response to the defense of Gaizhou, and he is more confident.

He Shihu's sorrow is precisely in the land rewarded by the He family, Gaizhou is the poorest state among the three states under the jurisdiction of the He family, and the He family will not give less land to the children of the promoted battalion generals every time, which is quite generous, after all, the He family cannot produce a few battalion generals in each generation. The He family at the beginning of the country can be regarded as a shining star, but at the beginning of the country, there were only nine military attachés above the battalion general level of the He family. Not to mention the land rewarded, take the two recent battalion generals of the He family, He Shijie and He Shizhong, for example, the He family rewarded He Shijie with 500 hectares of fertile land near Fuzhou and 400 hectares of fertile land near Jinzhou.

He Tengxiao's current residence is in Gaizhou, and He Shihu beware of He Tengxiao's request for land near Gaizhou as a reward. Gaizhou is not relatively rich compared to Fuzhou and Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Jinzhou, and it is not so painful to reward hundreds of hectares of land to go out, Gaizhou is poor, don't say that rewarding hundreds of hectares of land is to reward hundreds of acres of land to go out, and He Lion and Tiger will have a pain for a while.

Just when He Shihu was worried that He Tengxiao would ask for good land as a reward, He Tengxiao made a decision that surprised everyone up and down the He family, He Tengxiao did not want an acre of land, but only Changsheng Island and Zhongdao (that is, Changxing Island and Xizhong Island in later generations) as rewards. After getting the news, He Shihu was finally relieved.

It is true that these two islands are nominally under the jurisdiction of the He family, and the area of these two islands is not small, and ten Yunguan Islands are not as big as one Immortal Island, let alone another middle island.

He Tengxiao asked for the two islands without any resistance. Although these two islands are under the jurisdiction of the He family, the Zhao people have a weak sense of the sea and despise the islands. Moreover, in the past few years, the pirates and pirates in the northern region have also been very fierce, and these islands are often infested with pirates, and Changsheng Island and Nakajima are no exception.

After the troubles and pirates, the island finally reclaimed dozens of acres of thin fields, which also made the pirates and pirates clean. Since then, no one has come to the island to reclaim the land, and the island's permanent residents are only a few dozen fishermen, and it is said that the island is now barren to the point where snakes and insects are everywhere, and tigers and leopards are infested. Such a barren land, even if it is big, has little value in the eyes of the He family. He Tengxiao wanted these two islands as a reward, why didn't the He family do it?

He Fangxiong happily rewarded these two islands to He Tengxiao, and He Tengxiao was excited for a while. During the day, he sent away those unknown guests who came to give gifts to celebrate, and at night, He Tengxiao pondered how to develop the two islands under the lamp.

These two islands are no better than Yun Guam, and under the jurisdiction of Yun Guam Island, even if all the land on the island that can be cultivated is cultivated into farmland, it will not be able to feed many people. Changsheng Island and Nakadao are large islands, and water conservancy facilities are built on the islands to intercept fresh water for irrigation, and the reclaimed land can feed tens of thousands of people.

If Changsheng Island and Zhongdao are developed, even if the Liaodong Peninsula is occupied by the Liao, He Tengxiao will be able to move thousands of soldiers and civilians from Pingshan Fort to the two islands, retreat to Changsheng Island and Zhongdao to wait and see, and wait for the opportunity to move.

"Then buy five warships of various colors and three cargo ships from Longjiang Shipyard, and recruit another 150 sailors......" Zhang Yuyang read the list made by He Tengxiao, and said in a slurp, "Tut, is it an official who has been promoted...... Belch...... No...... It's a general, it's really bold and atmospheric! Atmosphere! ”

"Haha, Senho-sama...... Ahh Bah! Bah! Look at my foul mouth! Chang Qing habitually called He Tengxiao a thousand households, and soon realized that this title was wrong, and quickly changed his words, "General! Checkmate! When you become a general, of course you are two different things from Qianhu, and we will follow the battalion generals in the future, and we will all eat and drink spicy! I can't guarantee that the soldiers around the head of the family are not as nourished as the soldiers of our Pingshan Fort! ”

Chang Qing's words are not exactly patting He Tengxiao's ass. The ordinary soldiers of Pingshan Fort are two taels of silver per month, and one stone of military rations are distributed in full, and there is no delay, no arrears, and no discount, and the treatment of the soldiers of Pingshan Fort is indeed better than that of most of He Fangxiong's own soldiers.

"I didn't expect this promotion suddenly." He Tengxiao shrugged his shoulders, "When there were thousands of households, there were only three hundred households in Pingshan Fort, and counting the sailors of one hundred households who were added later, there were only four hundred households in total, more than five hundred people, and only half of the thousand households team. If all the 400 people are classified as pawns, they can barely make up enough for a thousand households. ”

"The battalion commander plans to expand the army?" Zhang Yuyang's words had a somewhat mocking tone.

"Expand, at least expand the army by two thousand households, make up enough for the establishment of a battalion, or according to the old rules, the old pawns will scatter and bring the new pawns, and one old pawn will bring two to three new pawns!" He Tengxiao decisively decided to expand the army this time.

The situation in Liaodong is deteriorating faster than He Tengxiao expected, and in order to enhance the strength of self-protection, the expansion of the army is a top priority, and an old soldier with two or three new soldiers can also take care of it. Although the overall combat effectiveness of the army will decline after the expansion, with one-third of the veteran soldiers laying the foundation, He Tengxiao is confident that the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command is still much stronger than that of most of the town troops in Liaodong.