Chapter 23: Tools can make up for congenital deficiencies
When Chen Lin settled Hanzhong, Hanzhong County only had a population of more than 300,000, and now through various co-optations, there are still several years of careful governance, especially the vigorous rectification of Yanpu Bilan's master and apprentice, and the population of Hanzhong has skyrocketed, and now there are 500,000 recorded in the government. Chen Lin vigorously developed the business route in Hanzhong, encouraged the scholars to engage in business, and greatly avoided the further annexation of land, which made the land in Hanzhong relatively scattered and scattered in the hands of ordinary people. Every family has a few acres of land, although the heavens are not beautiful, but Yan Pu and Bi Lan tried their best to improve all kinds of agricultural tools, but also let the people of Hanzhong not starve to death like other places, and change their children to eat.
Now Chen Lin has a total of nine armies under his command, and after Chen Lin successfully occupied the two counties of Guanghan and Brazil in Shu, except for the one that trapped the camp, which was 3,000 troops, the others became 2,000 people. For a time, together with Chen Lin's guards, Chen Lin's command could use 20,000 troops externally, of which four divisions were trapped, Zhou Tai, Cai Yang, and Yang Ren defended the central Shu region, and the remaining five divisions were all in Nanzheng except for Wu Kuang in Shangyong County.
It is said that after Chen Lin returned to Nanzheng, Hanzhong County in August, on the one hand, he was newly married, and the two ladies were virtuous and well-behaved, gentle and generous women, and Zhang's son was already able to run around, pestering Chen Lin to his father to hug him every day, and Chen Lin was not happy. On the other hand, Guanghan and Brazil were newly acquired, and Yan Pu and Chen Lin had to discuss and analyze how to arrange the officials of these two places and how to manage these two places every day, and they were very busy. Chen Lin, Wu Yi, Du Wei, the youngest Taishou of the three big men now, characters around thirty years old, are extremely rare. But the three of them are all capable people, especially Chen Lin, who is good at the ability of the royal man every day, which makes Jia Xu stunned. The families of Taishou and Juncheng, who were five hundred miles away in Guanghan and Brazil, all stayed in Nanzheng, which was also Chen Lin's order to better control the two places. Especially Fa Yan, the Cheng of Pasir County, his son Fa Zheng directly became Chen Lin's disciple and served left and right, and Fa Yan's father Fa Zhen is now also the right-hand man of Yan Pu in Hanzhong County. Chen Lin handled the personnel arrangements of the cadres properly, without the slightest flaws, and greatly controlled the land of the three counties from the inside.
At this time, the Nanzheng County Government was discussing the major affairs of Hanzhong fiercely, and Yan Pu said excitedly and generously: "Now Hanzhong is a great rule, and the lord's benevolent government is quite effective, but the two counties of Guanghan and Brazil are newly acquired lands, and they can not imagine that there will be taxes within a year, and the current army of 20,000 plus the defenders of the eleven counties of Hanzhong are all supported by Hanzhong County." After September, after a year of drought, it suddenly rained heavily, and there was a tendency to become more and more intense. It is estimated that there will be a catastrophe coming, which is all about the preparation of money and food, and the expansion of the army, Hanzhong's finances will be seriously undersuffocated, especially the cavalry with the heaviest consumption, the annual expenditure of a thousand cavalry is almost equivalent to the annual consumption of the people of a county. ”
It turned out that after Chen Lin came back from Dong, the wolf rider had been recuperating in Hanzhong, and Xu San was getting richer and richer, and the scale of horse trafficking was getting bigger and bigger, and now Jizhou and Bingzhou were in chaos, especially Bingzhou, which was almost a terra nullius, and Xu San brought back at least 5,000 good horses to Hanzhong in two years. Now Xu San no longer sells horses, and concentrates on raising horses in a horse farm specially approved by Chen Lin under Bashan in Hanzhong. When Chen Lin came back from Shuzhong, he wanted to raise the number of wolf riders to three thousand, but Yan Pu, who was in charge of money and grain, strongly opposed it, and cried out vigorously.
The reason why Chen Lin wanted to add cavalry again was also discussed with Jia Xu, and Zhang Ziqiao, who was highly recommended by Wu Yi, also said so. Zhang Song originally wanted to stay in Guanghan and be with Wu Yi, but Wu Yi knew that he couldn't let Chen Lin feel that he was forming a gang, so he decisively recommended Zhang Song to Chen Lin. Chen Lin didn't care about Zhang Song's appearance at all, and said after talking to Zhang Song: "This person has great talents, and he can compare with Wenhe." So Zhang Song, like Fa Zheng, stayed by his side as a staff member, and Zhang Song followed Chen Lin back to Hanzhong.
As soon as Yan Pu finished speaking, Zhang Song glanced at Chen Lin, and Chen Lin happened to see it and nodded. Zhang Song was greatly moved in his heart, knowing that this was Chen Lin's opportunity to show himself. I saw Zhang Song's short body stand up, and the ugly voice suddenly sounded: "What Lord Juncheng said is reasonable, now that Hanzhong County is rich, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, I have to thank Lord Juncheng for his hard work." When Yan Pu heard this, he couldn't help but use it, and felt that this ugly guy was not so annoying, so he hurriedly: "Don't dare to be, this is the benevolence of the lord, the trust of the lord, and this is the blessing of the people of Hanzhong." ”
Zhang Song: "Now the court is dark, Dong and thieves are hegemonic, and Xiliang, Ma and Han are separating the place. The north of the Han Dynasty is also a chaotic place, and the state is borderless, sometimes harassed by the Xiongnu and Hu people, the Bohai Taishou Qi Township Marquis Yuan originally occupied Jizhou by stratagem, and now he is in a stalemate with the overlord of Youzhou. The Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou burst into millions, attacking the state and plundering the county, which is a dangerous place. Cao Mengde, the Taishou of Dongjun, was hard to support, and was not harmed by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and Yanzhou was also a place of war. Sun Wentai, the world-famous Wucheng Marquis, led his troops back to Jiangdong in one fell swoop after the defeat in Hanoi. Jingzhou except for Nanyang County is all in the hands of Liu Jingsheng, the state pastor, and tens of thousands of troops are eyeing Nanyang, but who can be sure that they are not eyeing Hanzhong at the same time. Later General Nanyang Taishou Yuan Highway directly occupied a county in Yingchuan, Runan is the hometown of the Later General, less than half a year, Yuzhou will become the Later General's bag, plus the first largest county in the Han Dynasty, Nanyang County, the Later General can be compared to Dong Zhongying. Relying on the help of the lord back then, now Liu Xuande has also established a foothold in Luoyang Hongnong, Dong Zhongying only knows pleasure in Chang'an and does not think about going east, and the princes of the Central Plains are busy with each other, so that Liu Xuande also has a great tendency to rise to the old capital. Not to mention the situation in Shuzhong, almost half of my troops in Hanzhong have to stay in Guanghan and Brazil counties. Imagine that under such a general trend of the world, if there is no strong army to protect it, then how can the people of Hanzhong feel at ease, if our army is not capable, the wealth of the people of Hanzhong has become the source of trouble. Now, if it weren't for Liu Zixia and Lord Liu's support for the mutual market, and the people of Bashan Yi returned to Hanzhong, then my Hanzhong would be even more civil strife, and when the time comes, there will be a strong enemy invasion, and there will be nothing to do. The cavalry is the best army for rapid rescue, the three counties of Shangyong are hundreds of miles away from Nanzheng, if Shangyong is in difficulty, the cavalry will change in three or four days, this is the foundation of Hanzhong's invincibility, so the cavalry must have, and the county lord must think twice. ”
Zhang Song didn't say anything else, when he went north to Sanfu and Xiliang, the opponents were all cavalry, if Hanzhong didn't start preparing cavalry now, he would definitely be passive at that time. Zhang Song basically said all the forces in the world, and now the most eye-catching thing about the Han Dynasty is the places that Zhang Song said just now, and at the same time, there are also Hanoi Taishou, Shangdang Taishou, Shanyang Taishou, etc., these people have not made much action, but they are not paid attention to. The north is the most chaotic, Youzhou Mu, Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao three people melee in Ji, Youzhou two places, and there are even more yellow turbans rampant under Taihang Mountain, it is said that there are dozens of shares. If it weren't for the fact that the situation in the Han Dynasty was not because the Xianbei people were also in turmoil, I was afraid that the Xianbei people would have hit the Yellow River. Xianbei Han and Lian are not popular with the people, Xianbei in the west and Xianbei in the east have raised troops to oppose Helian, and for a time the tribes of all sizes on the grassland want to take the opportunity to make profits and make their tribes go to the next level.
The civil and military forces in Hanzhong quarreled over the issue of building an additional 1,000 cavalry, and Chen Lin finally slapped the wooden case and increased. Although Yan Pu strongly opposed it in advance, Yan Pu was able to cooperate perfectly every time Chen Lin decided on something, and this time it was the same. On this day, Chen Lin, Jia Xu and the others had nothing to do, and they were walking to the camp of the wolf cavalry, wanting to see the situation of the new cavalry and the two thousand old subordinates, and whether the wolf cavalry's combat power could be of great use.
From afar, I heard the neighing of the war horse, and the roar of the warrior "vertical spear" "clamped the horse's belly, it will fall, alas, be careful, it will fall if you say so." "Wait, it's not lively. The camp of the wolf cavalry was set up five miles outside the city of Nanzheng, and the area was more than five or six times that of the ordinary infantry camp. Seeing that it was Chen Lin, the sergeant guarding the camp hurriedly reported to Chen Ze, and Chen Ze and Lin An hurriedly came out to greet him. Lin An has only recovered not long ago since he was injured in the last chase and killing, and he is already intact at this time, Lin An smiled and said that he is not afraid to kill Hu Zhen again.
"Zhong Zhi, this wolf rider has been quite effective after several years of actual practice, but every time I think of the Hu people I met in Qianghu, I just can't let go of it." When Chen Lin escorted Cai Yong to Bingzhou, Chen Lin had seen the power of the Hu cavalry. That's really coming and going like the wind, the movements are the same, ten thousand people are like one, even a sharp turn can be done so beautifully, which makes Chen Lin envious, if there is a cavalry like that, how good it would be, even the cavalry under Dong Zhuo is not as good as others. However, Dong Zhuo sent a lot of Hu people to join the cavalry directly, so Dong Zhuo's iron cavalry was still very terrifying, at least for the princes in the Han Dynasty.
Chen Ze smiled bitterly: "Big brother, yes, even if I wait for the * practice day and night, but I am not as powerful as the Hu people who grew up on horseback since childhood, the soldiers are not stable on the horses, and now the recruitment is only to select those who have ridden horses before to come to the wolf to ride, otherwise some soldiers have never touched the war horse, and it is even more difficult to train." Now that new soldiers are enlisted, they can ride horses smoothly in March, hold guns for half a year, and barely form a formation in a year, which is already the fastest speed, cavalry, my Han people are naturally inferior to the Hu people. "There are hundreds of wolf riders in the middle, but more than ten years ago, the old lady Chen was Chen Lin Anpa, and he started riding horses when he was fighting, and it was this group of people who formed the initial scale of the wolf cavalry, and it was this group of people that made Yuan Shu envious of Chen Lin's cavalry. But such a veteran is still no match for a casual Hu man, helpless and sad.
When Chen Lin heard this, he looked at the group of people in the camp who were estimated to be recruits, and soon one of them fell off his horse, and then struggled to get up and rushed over, stubborn. Chen Lin was moved, it was these people who were desperately protecting themselves and guarding Hanzhong, how could he not do something for them. It's time for the things left by the old man to come out, and after Chen Lin made up his mind, he shouted: "I want Bi Lan's master and apprentice to come and see so." ”
The invincible tool of the cavalry appeared, and no one knew how terrible and inconspicuous the old lady had left behind for Chen Lin.