Chapter 173: Temperance

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The weather is getting colder and colder, but the border market on the dam is becoming more and more prosperous. During the day, the road on the dam is full of continuous camel caravans and ox carts, and the camel bells and the bells on the necks of the oxen ring non-stop, forming a cheerful music. At night, the cities and villages are even more lively, although they are on the Saiwai Dam, but Lingyun does not implement the same curfew system as the Central Plains, on the contrary, all the cities in Huaihuang have opened up special night market streets, and they are open all night until dawn.

After large-scale publicity and speculation, as well as the initial profit-making promotions and auctions, the caravans who came to trade before also made a lot of money, and after they returned, they also spread the lively scene and unlimited business opportunities on the Huaihuang side, so that more and more merchants came. Originally, many merchants from the Central Plains who were preparing to go outside the Saiwai and Hu merchants who were preparing to enter the Sui Realm also took a detour to Huai Famine. In addition, the exclusive commercial goods such as dam salt, sugar, paper, wine, and books produced in Huaihuang today have attracted an increase in the number of merchants who come to Huaihuang every day.

Contrary to the bustling trade of Huaihuang, the Turks were unexpectedly peaceful during this time.

The Huaihuang army intensified its training all day, and the patrol light cavalry did not relax their vigilance for a moment, but the Turks did not attack at all as expected, and not only did they not attack in a big way. No small strands, no harassment. Even many of the caravans that passed along the Great Wall were not harassed by the Turks. This situation came as a surprise to the entire Huaihuang army, although the Turks did not appear. Everyone was secretly relieved in their hearts, and thanks to the fact that these Turks did not attack, the trade on Deba was much more prosperous than expected, and the market was also opened up in a short time. However, Yi Feng did not feel relaxed at all, the more this happened, the more Yi Feng felt abnormal.

When things go wrong, they are demons, and Turkic robbers are in the habit of robbers. They can't become so peace-loving all at once.

In October, the news of the defeat of the Great Sui Eastern Expedition to Goryeo finally spread with the arrival of the merchants. The failure of the Great Sui's Eastern Crusade shocked everyone's eyes. No one expected that the Great Sui would be defeated, and it would be so miserable and so fast. Out of the fortress in June, it was defeated in September. I haven't even seen a shadow of the Koreans. Before a soldier fought, he was already defeated and returned. In the restaurants and tea shops in Huaihuang City, you can hear the discussion of merchants everywhere, and many people think that the Great Sui will definitely carry out the second crusade to the east, and even say that they can't wait for next year, and will send troops for the second time this year. However, when Yi Feng heard the news of the defeat of the Eastern Expedition, he didn't have much reaction.

It is too normal for the Eastern Crusade to fail, not to mention the failure of Emperor Wen's Eastern Crusade. It is in history, after Yang Guang succeeds to the throne in the future. After sweeping away Tuyuhun, Yiwu, and Linyi and other countries, he dug canals and built several main roads and branch roads leading to Zhuojun and Yingzhou, and then sent millions of troops to conquer Liao, but in the end the army was still defeated. Yang Guang conquered Liaodong three times in a row, and even became one of the important inducements for the loss of the country. After the Sui annihilation, after many years of recuperation, Tang Taizong Li Shimin sent troops to Liaoliao again, although Tang Taizong led the founding generals to attack the city and break the ground in Goguryeo, and won many victories, but in the end, the mountains and rivers in Liaodong were bad, and the mountains and rivers were far away, so that Li Shimin had to withdraw his troops and retreat. It was not until the time of Gojong that the Tang Dynasty united with Silla, destroyed Baekje first, opened up a second battlefield on the Samhan Peninsula, fought on two fronts in the north and south, and finally destroyed Goguryeo with the combined national strength of the Tang Dynasty and Silla. From the Great Sui Emperor's eastward expedition to Goguryeo in 598 to the destruction of Goguryeo in 668 in the first year of the Tang Dynasty, the small Goryeo still lasted for 70 years before perishing under the attack of the four emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Goguryeo is not a nomadic tribe, they are not like the Turks and Khitans, dealing with nomadic tribes like the Turks and Khitans, the Central Plains Dynasty concentrates its forces, and often a decisive battle can distinguish the winner and loser. However, Liaodong, which was occupied by Goguryeo, was in danger of mountains and rivers, and the biggest difficulty in attacking Goryeo was actually the problem of supply. The more troops and horses are dispatched, the greater the logistical pressure, and the more difficult it is to sustain the war.

The failure of this expedition to Liao, Yi Feng clearly knew that it would greatly stimulate the Turks, whether it was the Dulan Khan of the Eastern Turks or the Datou Khan of the Western Turks, their courage would be much stronger.

The unusually calm of the Eastern Turks at this time also made Yi Feng more and more sure that the Eastern Turks were probably secretly actively contacting the Datou Khan of the Western Turks at this time, as in history, and were ready to do a big job. Recalling history, Yi Feng remembered that it seemed that the Great Sui and the Turks had been fighting intermittently for several years from the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign before they successively destroyed Dulan and Datou, and single-handedly supported the pro-Sui Turkic Khan to become the Turkic Great Khan, and then used the Turks to control the Turks, and the Sui Turks stabilized for more than ten years until the Central Plains collapsed.

This memory is not good news for Yi Feng. After several years of fighting between the Turks and the Sui, from Lingxia in the northwest to Youying Prefectures in the northeast, thousands of miles of northern frontier will become battlefields. And the dam, living outside the Great Wall, is 500 miles away from Youzhou, and it is only 800 miles away from the Khan Court of Dulan Khan in Baidaochuan at this time. If the fight really starts, for Huaihuang, who is now completely devoted to the Great Sui and is rich, it will become the meat on the lips of the Turks.

During these times, while Yi Feng was in charge of the border city, he was also training troops on a large scale, and on the other hand, he was also strengthening the integration of the two forces of the Tiger Alliance and the Gao family to Huaihuang Town. Now, the influence of the Tiger League has gradually weakened, and Yi Feng has begun to comprehensively eliminate the former foundation of the Tiger League, and the shogunate of Huaihuang Town has now completely replaced the full organization of the Tiger League, and the council and the Council of Elders have almost become empty names, and there is no normal deliberative mechanism. Even the position of the hall master that was originally retained in each city has now been changed by Yi Fenggang to be an envoy. Although Yi Feng's actions made the original Tiger Alliance feel a little complicated, with the support of Pei Zeng, Tuoba Hengdao and others, Ling Yun also arranged a good new position for the members of the original Tiger Alliance, and also implemented Shun Lì. Yi Feng is very clear. If you want to make Huaihuang Town stronger, it is not possible to still retain the original set, and you must let everyone understand. The real center of Huaihuang Town after it, the decision-making level is the Shogunate of Huaihuang Town, and the status of the Huaihuang Army can be determined, so as to truly integrate this force that is already full of factions on the mountain.

Time is running out, the Crusade army has been defeated, the time has entered October, and the Turks will not be quiet anymore.

Thunder is coming!

Yi Feng asked Wei Zheng to recommend some scribes to come. There will be a lot of soldiers in Huaihuang Town, but there are still too few scribes to deal with the commons. Especially in the cities below, there was a growing shortage of such scribes.

Wei Zheng did not refuse this request. Immediately, he wrote many letters, a few to the uncles and brothers of the Julu Wei family, and one to the original professor and doctor of state studies, and also to the classmates of the state and county studies. and Hefen's teacher Wang Tong and Hefen's disciples, who were also Wang Tong's disciples, wrote a lot of letters. Invite them to come and do things in the wilderness.

Early in the morning, Yi Feng got up from Qinglian's gentleness and combed his hair and dressed under Mulan's service. Since the incident of sleeping together that day, Mulan and Qinglian have now become the hostesses of General Huaihuang's mansion, and the two of them have the final say. Qianxue and Rose are both in Yangzhou, and Ji Yao is also staying in Salt Lake City, and Yi Feng is happy to be the shopkeeper of the affairs in Huaihuang Mansion. Yi Feng also officially gave the two of them the identity of a concubine, which was much higher than the identity of the original concubine. When the hostess is not in the house, they become half hostesses. Can be in charge of household chores in the house. However, since that day, the two girls have refused to sleep together, and Yi Feng's beautiful willingness to repay the blessings of Qi people is rare to realize. The two girls are now living in the east chamber and the west chamber, and even arranged the time to sleep in private, Fengshan is on Qinglian's side, and Fengshuang is accompanied by Mulan.

Coming out of the Qinglian room this morning, Mulan had already prepared breakfast with the two little girls who had just entered the mansion, and after breakfast, Gao Jia had already waited in front of the door with the Xuejun of the Teaching Regiment, and they escorted the directors of the White Tiger Hall to the White Tiger Terrace. Although more than a hundred people are guarding a little swaggering, Yi Feng does not object, now Huaihuang is full of fresh faces, and his own safety still has to be more careful.

As soon as he entered the White Tiger Terrace, Wei Zheng, the secretary of the military staff, was already waiting there, and as soon as he saw Yi Feng, he immediately took a letter that had just arrived in his hand and smiled, "Good news!" The good news just came from Yangzhou, Mrs. Gao and Mrs. Murong were happy, the king of Jin had sent General Yuwen to escort the two ladies to come, accompanied by more than 100 people such as scribes and scribes, and 1,000 cronies and guards. In addition, a batch of ordnance was transported together, mainly arrows, etc., in addition to the nitrate and sulfur purchased by the marshal last time by Tuo Yuwen. ”

Hearing the news, Yi Feng raised his eyebrows and was overjoyed.

Rose and Asa Yuki are both pregnant, which is excellent news. But what surprised him a little was that Yang Guang actually asked Yu Wenhua and the escort two to come to Huaihuang, what does this mean? At the beginning, Yang Guangliu and the two were in Yangzhou, but he clearly wanted to be hostages.

However, the second letter that Wei Zheng took out immediately afterwards made Yi Feng almost understand why.

The second letter says that the Son of Heaven officially aimed to establish Wuzhou in Huaihuang and set up the Governor's Office, and Yi Feng was the newly established Governor of Wuzhou and the Assassin History, and he also got the title of Duke of Guangning County, the rank of General, and at the same time the envoy supervised the military, Wuzhou and the military of the fourteen towns below. At the same time, he also gave him the power to act cheaply, and to continue to open the shogunate, and all the civil and military officials in Huaihuang originally arranged by Yi Feng also admitted that the result of giving seals according to the system made Yi Feng hard to believe, Emperor Wen not only recognized the Huaihuang army in Huaihuang Town, but also did not even interfere in Huaihuang Town.

Why?

But when Yi Feng opened the third letter, he understood. The third letter was a private letter from Yang Guang to him, which first revealed an extremely secret thing, Yi Feng turned out to be the son of Yang Guang and the crown princess! Seeing this, he finally understood why he was chased and killed by the crown prince Black Iron Guards in Jianghuai in the first place, and why those Black Iron Guards had such a troublesome design to lure him south, and when they had the opportunity to kill him, they didn't kill him, but wanted to capture him. There is such a royal secret, Yi Feng turned out to be the son of the crown prince and the crown princess on the surface, but in fact he was the son of the crown princess and the king of Jin before she married the crown prince. However, the letter is not intended to admit his identity. Instead, he sued Yi Feng, saying that he also knew some rumors about Yi Feng today. But he probably only knows that he is the son of the crown prince and the crown princess. Yang Guang hoped that after Yi Feng knew his life experience, he would not say it for the time being. He hoped that if the Son of Heaven found out that Yi Feng was the prince's lost son-in-law that year. Then let him not expose it, and say that this is a good thing for him and Yi Feng.

Seeing this, Yi Feng didn't know what to say. Who would have thought that he would still have such a life experience, and Yang Guang would have such an arrangement now. But think about it, Yang Guang's arrangement is not bad. At this time, jump out. What good is it for Yi Feng to pierce this qiē? But what he didn't expect was that Yang Jian and his wife would know about it so soon. This Wuzhou governor of his own is probably also like this.

Maybe it's just a little compensation.

However, he was sure that Yang Jian and his wife would definitely not immediately decide that Yi Feng was their eldest grandson, after all, this matter needed to be carefully investigated, and there was no room for mistakes. He wasn't worried. Yang Yong will pierce this matter. Poke it out. It is not good for Yang Guang, and it is also bad for Yang Yong. He is already unfavored now, and if such a scandal breaks out again, it is estimated that he will not be able to be the prince at all.

The imperial court newly established two prefectures of Wuzhou and Fuzhou, and Huaihuang Town became Wuzhou, and Huaihuang City and the following cities were all placed as towns, all of which were led by Yi Feng. The area between the two Great Walls of the former Northern Qi Dynasty and the old North Yanzhou was newly established as Yanzhou. Yang Guang said in the letter. The Son of Heaven was originally planning to set up Wuzhou in the territory of the current Wu and Fu Prefectures, and Qu Tutong, the current governor of Fu Prefecture, served as the governor of Wuzhou. And Yi Fenghui is the county commander and town general of Huaihuang County, Wuzhou. But not long after that decree was issued, the Son of Heaven pursued the messenger and reissued this new decree. Huaihuang County became Wuzhou, and Yi Feng also became the governor of Wuzhou, the history of assassination, and was also knighted and promoted.

Although this Wuzhou Governor's Office is only in charge of this piece of land on the Guanwai Dam, for Yi Feng, this is really the best result that can be imagined. From a green forest force like the Tiger League, it has finally become a state of the imperial court, and even a governor's office. Not only that, but the imperial court did not even have the slightest intention of interfering in the affairs of the newly established Wuzhou Governor's Office. The Governor's Mansion of Wuzhou is completely controlled by Yi Feng. It's still those territories, it's still those people, but they have really changed from the Tiger League to the Wuzhou Governor's Office. This change, for Yi Feng, first of all, is that he can buy a large amount of grain from the Central Plains, and he no longer has to worry about the checkpoints on the border. Of course, there are many more benefits.

The letter also said that this time the imperial court set up several new governors in the north, in addition to the Wuzhou governor's mansion and the Yanzhou governor's mansion are newly established, the imperial court also divided the Youzhou governor's mansion, Youzhou governor Yan Rong originally commanded the military of the twelve states, but the Eastern Expedition was defeated, Gao Gong and the Han King have not been impeached, but Yan Rong was the first unlucky. In this Eastern Crusade, Yan Rong's Youzhou Governor's Mansion was the headquarters and rear base of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and as a result, the Eastern Expedition was defeated, and there was indeed a reason for the poor logistics and grain delivery, plus Yan Rong was fierce and brutal, and the governance of the place was quite simple and rude, especially for those northern scholars, everyone regarded them as cattle and horses, and bullied them arbitrarily. At the beginning, Yang Jian asked him to control Youzhou, maybe he took a fancy to his cruelty and asked him to deal with those local heroes, but now he has guarded Youzhou Prefectures for many years, and the shape is very different, and now that the northern war is imminent, Yang Jian also used the reason for this poor grain delivery to directly reprimand Yan Rong for degrading officials to appease the locality, Yan Rong was the governor of Youzhou, but he was originally in charge of dozens of towns in twelve states, and now he is only in charge of fifty towns in six states, and his power has been reduced by more than half at once. The new Youzhou Governor's Mansion is in charge of fifty towns in Youzhou, Yi, Ding, Heng, Ying, and Tan six prefectures. In the other six states, some of them directly became ordinary states, and the three prefectures of Xuan, Ping, and Ying under Yanshan had separate governors' offices.

This made the original Taihang Mountain east of the Youzhou Governor's Mansion completely changed, from the original Youzhou Governor's Mansion to the Wu, Fu, You, Xuan, Ping, and Ying six governor's mansions to defend the northern frontier of Yanshan, and responsible for the defense of Xi, Qi, and Goguryeo in the east.

However, on the whole, the six governors of Hebei still belong to the six governors of Hebei Province, and they are under the command of Yang Liang, the king of the Han Dynasty. However, although it is lower than the level of the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, the Wuzhou Governor's Mansion and the Youzhou Governor's Mansion are not subordinate to each other.

Today, with the addition of these newly established governors, there are four major governors' offices in the world, 36 governors' offices, 299 prefectures, and 1,352 counties.

The Wuzhou Governor's Mansion belongs to the lower level of the Governor's Office, which is the same as the middle state, and there are two counties of Huaihuang and Yuyi, as well as the 14th Military Town, and another one hundred and eight forts. Although the Huaihuang Army has belonged to the Great Sui Army, it does not belong to the Twelve Wei Mansions. In fact, the Twelve Guards of the Great Sui Dynasty was only the central army, and in addition to the central army, there were still a large number of local armies. The local army includes the soldiers of the states and states, as well as the garrisons of the military towns and forts in the border areas. The Huaihuang Army is now the local army under the Wuzhou Governor's Office, with a formal establishment, consisting of the 14th Army Town and one hundred and eight garrison defenders. The Sui Dynasty's towns, according to the system, are each of the three ranks, the upper town of 1,000 soldiers, the middle town of 800, the lower town of 500, and the central army's hussar mansion and chariot cavalry mansion are similar, the upper garrison is 300, the middle garrison is 50, and the lower garrison is 30. Yi Feng's more than 10,000 Huaihuang troops and thousands of garrisons in various cities added up, and the number was equivalent to the number of soldiers in his hands, which was justifiable.

When he got the official edict, Yi Feng really became a frontier official, and he was in charge of the army and the people. Although it is only a small general manager, there are only 40 general managers in the whole country, and 36 general managers under the four major general managers. Yi Feng also became the head of a place and the commander of a military region.

Well, the Son of Heaven also gave Yi Feng the right to open the mansion and grant the official positions of local civil officials below the history of assassination and the generals of each town below the general manager, and the official positions he appointed and dismissed were reported to the imperial court, and the imperial court would be awarded one by one according to the system and given seals.

The opening government does not count the power of its own staff, and now it even has the power to appoint and dismiss civil and military officials in the governor's office, which is a right that only a few governors have, and the one who has this right is either the chief governor, or the general manager in the wilderness, such as the Guilin governor's office. Yi Feng couldn't help but get excited, with this right, how much help would it be. Most of those who followed him were just trying to earn a future. Now he holds the right to issue the official hat and the official seal in his hand, who is not loyal to him!

Damn, Yang Jian is really generous and cheerful to his family, and he has not fully confirmed it, but he is already so bold with his grandson! This grandson does not seem to be in vain.

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