Chapter 246: Separation of Military and Political Affairs
At the same time as the promulgation of the Yanjing Law, Ao Lie also made certain adjustments in personnel. He transferred Wei Yan, who was guarding in Buyeo, and Zhang Xiu, who was guarding Goguryeo, back to prepare for the expedition against the Xiongnu and Wuhuan. Deng Zhi, who guarded Goguryeo with Zhang Xiu, was appointed by Ao Lie as the Taishou of Goguryeo County, overseeing the affairs of Goguryeo, and at the same time, Ao Lie also officially appointed Chen Qun as the Taishou of Buyeo, and let him be in charge of the affairs of Buyeo and the affairs of the oil field, Ao Lie also sent Xiahou Lan to Buyeo, responsible for helping Chen Qun develop the oil field, and at the same time took over Wei Yan's duties, responsible for protecting all the secrets of the oil field and preventing other princes from exploring the secrets.
Cui Yan's Gwangju Mu and Gongsun Chan's position as the protector general remained unchanged, and they were jointly responsible for the military and political affairs of Gwangju, while the original Cui Yan's position of Governor of Gwangju was held by Zhang Ji, who was strongly recommended by Cui Yan, and Gongsun Chan's original position of Liaoxi Taishou was held by his younger brother Gongsun Yue. Here I want to talk about Zhang Ji, this person is not famous in the romance, in fact, he is a political expert, has served as a county commander, Taishou and state pastor, the later is the Cao Wei group to govern Yong, Liang two states of the most outstanding ministers, he governed Yongliang for more than 20 years, and the government of the people and is famous, later generations called the political talent. Moreover, Zhang Ji's knowledge of people was also a must at that time, and the seven or eight deputies he hired successively later became famous celebrities, but Zhang Ji's knowledge of people was limited to political talents, unlike Ao Lie, who had all-round and all-angle foresight.
Accompanying Zhang Ji to Bingzhou was Lu Bu's subordinate general Cao Xing, who would take over Gao Shun's position and be responsible for commanding the sergeants of Bingzhou. As for Gao Shun, this is a soldier training man, and Ao Lie has no reason to keep him in the state and let Gao Shun return to Yanjing to be responsible for training sergeants. It is the place where Gao Shun can give full play to his talents.
After adjusting the personnel, Ao Lie set up a military government in the Dadu Governor's Mansion, with only a few members, namely Zhuge Liang, Jia Xu, Xun Yu, Li Ru, Lu Su, Xu Shu and Chen Gong. While these people are responsible for their own work, they also have to assume the responsibilities of the military government. In peacetime, he was responsible for the inspection of armaments and materials, and in wartime, he was responsible for formulating operational plans, giving advice to Ao Lie, and requiring their consent when military and horse were mobilized. To this end, Ao Lie deliberately asked Wang Hun and Ma Jun to make more than 200 pieces of tiger talismans of different sizes, the tiger talisman is engraved with the word "Yan", every time the sergeant is transferred, the general with the troops must need to correspond to several tiger talismans in the hands of the military government. The transfer can only be completed after that. After the transfer is completed, the general who leads the troops must immediately return to the military office to hand over the tiger talisman. After being accepted by the Military Administration. in order to deliver the tiger and the soldiers.
At the same time as the establishment of the Military Mansion, Ao Lie also established a government office, which was far away from the Military Administration, and was located on the east and west sides of the Metropolitan Governor's Palace. Like the military government, there are not many members of the government government, only Liu Yu, Liu He, Gu Yong, Jiang Wan, Dong He, Du Ji, and Yan Rou. Although Liu Yu is a little old. But he refused to serve the old man, and he was busy every day, so Ao Lie simply asked his father, who was quite good at governance, to go out of the mountain again to take care of government affairs for himself. As for Ao Lie's eldest brother Liu He. He only recently returned to Yanjing, he returned to Youzhou to help Ao Lie at the behest of Liu Xie, and with him, there was also Du Ji, who also entered the government office. Liu Xiezhi said that Ao Lie had just conquered Gwangju, and there must not be enough manpower on his hands, so he asked Liu He and Du Ji to come to help Ao Lie.
Several people in the government government, in addition to Liu Yu, Liu He and Du Ji, other people also have their own jobs, and even Liu He and Du Ji were also appointed by Ao Lie as Diannong Zhonglang and Dianjin Zhonglang respectively, responsible for the management of agriculture and metal. As for the duties of the government government, it is responsible for coordinating the distribution of food, armaments, and other materials for the 240,000-strong army. In wartime, it is responsible for raising grain and grass, handing over the grain and grass to the general in charge of escorting, and then sending it to the battlefield on the front line.
The establishment of the military government and the government government is tantamount to putting all the military and political power into the hands of Ao Lie alone. Through the seven people of the military government, Ao Lie can easily control every move of the 240,000 army under his command, and through the seven people of the government office, Ao Lie is equivalent to pinching the lifeblood of the army's food, grass and armaments. The military government has the power to mobilize soldiers and horses, but it does not have soldiers and horses in its hands; The generals who directly led the troops had soldiers and horses in their hands, but they did not have the power to mobilize, and at the same time they had no food and grass; The government has money and food in its hands, but it cannot mobilize the army. They form a perfect constraint on each other, forming a chain that effectively prevents the possibility of mutiny in the future.
Under the command of Ao Lie, all the soldiers and advisers can be said to be brave and loyal people, but Ao Lie also knows that his power will expand sooner or later, and there will inevitably be a large number of talents to join his command, Ao Lie does not dare to guarantee that the people who will join in the future are all such loyal people under his command now, there are many people, it is inevitable that dragons and snakes will be mixed, in order to put an end to the frequent mutinies, Ao Lie set up a military government and a government government in advance, which can be regarded as a precaution.
After being busy for more than ten days in a row, the matter finally came to an end, and the next thing was to raise food and grass, build weapons, and prepare for the expedition. On this expedition, Ao Lie could only lead 60,000 people to participate in the battle, so the quality of weapons and the sufficiency of grain and grass became very key factors. Ao Lie has always been not too concerned about the matter of grain and grass, with his father and Gu Yong taking care of them, Ao Lie is very relieved, so Ao Lie, who is free, stepped into the prison, he wants to see if Wang Hun and Ma Jun have come up with any sophisticated weapons recently.
Since Wang Hun and Ma Jun made improvements to weapons such as arrow towers, stone throwers, and Xizi repeaters, Ao Lie has been entangled in various things and has not been a prisoner for a long time. He was looking forward to Wang Hun's master and apprentice being able to surprise him again.
As soon as he entered the prison, Ao Lie heard a creepy creaking sound, it turned out that it was Wang Hun and Ma Jun with a few people, testing their newly made ballista. Ao Lie saw that most of the entire ballista was made of wood, and a small part of the core was made of iron, and the ballista was almost a man high, with two wings spread out, and it was a foot wide. At this moment, there were three arm-thick javelins on the ballista, each of which weighed about twenty pounds. Obviously, this is the ballista's ballista, and being able to fire such a heavy bolt shows how amazing the tension of the ballista is.
The amount of force used in the machine. After pulling the three thick crossbow bolts onto the rifling, the creaking sound of tooth sore stopped abruptly, and Wang Hun adjusted the crosshair at the top of the ballista with some solemnity, and then turned back to Ma Jun and said, "It's ready to fire." When Ma Jun heard this, he immediately stomped heavily on a mechanism at the bottom of the ballista.
With Ma Jun's movements, three loud ejections sounded, and three heavy crossbow arrows shot out, directly hitting the wooden target two hundred paces away. Ao Lie looked in the direction of the crossbow arrow, and was surprised to find that in front of the wooden target two hundred paces away, three wooden shields the size of fists were erected. That's not all, the wooden man still has a pair of iron armor on his body. Obviously, Wang Hun wanted to see if the power of the crossbow could effectively kill the wooden man wearing iron armor after shooting through the three-layer wooden shield.
The next moment. Ao Lie was stunned to see that the three heavy crossbow arrows pierced through the three layers of wooden shields. Leaves three spiral-shaped wounds on the wooden shield. And then shot at the wooden man with precision at the same time! The iron armor on the wooden man, in front of the heavy crossbow arrows, was no different from the papier-mΓ’chΓ©, and was simply shot through by three giant crossbows. After piercing the wooden man, the three giant crossbows continued to fly forward for more than a dozen steps, and then plunged headlong to the ground. The front half of the giant crossbow slammed into the earth, its thick tail shivering with its tail exposed.
Ao Lie was shocked, such a powerful ballista was compared with the three-bow bed crossbow of the later Song Dynasty. It's not to be much better! In historical records, the three-bow bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty is recognized as the most powerful bed crossbow in the world, with a range of up to an astonishing 700 steps! There are two types of crossbow arrows in the three-bow bed crossbow, a thinner crossbow bolt, which is about the same size as the saber in people's hands, and wins with speed; The other is a giant crossbow like a javelin, which is about the same as the giant crossbow made by Wang Hun, and wins by strength. It is said that the latter's crossbow arrows, fired from 700 paces away, can cause a certain shock to the enemy's city wall, and are firmly inserted into the city wall like nails, laying the foundation for the Song army's foot soldiers to attack the city.
The ballista made by Wang Hun and others is comparable to the three-bow bed crossbow in terms of power, but the range is much worse, and it can only reach about two hundred and twenty or thirty steps, which is far from being comparable to the three-bow bed crossbow. However, in terms of mobility and operability, it is much higher than the three-bow bed crossbow, Ao Lie has read the history books of later generations, which records that the three-bow bed crossbow requires thirty people to work together in order to use the power of the machine to load and launch the three-bow bed crossbow, and the ballista in front of him, including Wang Hun and Ma Jun, who are commanded by the two and did not carry out the actual operation, only ten people are enough!
"Good! This thing is an artifact on the battlefield. Ao Lie praised from the bottom of his heart. Hearing Ao Lie's applause, Wang Hun and the others found out about Ao Lie's arrival, and before, all the minds of several people were immersed in the test of the ballista, and they didn't notice Ao Lie.
Wang Hun and Ma Jun hurriedly stepped forward and saluted Ao Lie respectfully. Since Ma Jun joined the Yanjing Academy, Ao Lie has not spoken to him in private, and at the moment, Ao Lie grabbed Ma Jun's arm behind him and asked with concern: "In Yanjing, everything is still used to it?" β
Ma Jun didn't expect that as Ao Lie, he would take the initiative to ask about his living situation, and he couldn't help but feel a little flattered, and hurriedly replied: "Everything is fine, Master treats me very well, and Lao Junhou cares." Ao Lie nodded, and then turned his head to look at Wang Hun and said, "Lord Wang, looking at your proficiency in the operation of the ballista and the power of the ballista, presumably, this is not something you developed today, right?" "Because Wang Hun holds the position of the general who will be the prisoner, and he is also a minister under Ao Lie, so Ao Lie will call him an adult.
Wang Hun immediately nodded and replied: "Marquis of the Emperor, this ballista, we have already improved it three times, and it is still in the testing stage, and we are working on the fourth improvement of it, after the improvement, we will strive to make it more powerful and have a longer range." β
Ao Lie asked with a smile: "After three improvements, it shows that the technique of making ballistas is quite proficient, why didn't you report this matter to a certain person?" Ao Lie was originally just a joke, but as soon as he finished saying this, ten people, including Wang Hun and Ma Jun, looked at Ao Lie at the same time.
After a long time, Wang Hun said quietly: "The prince has all the opportunities, how can he be in the mood to pay attention to the things that will be imprisoned?" It's been almost a year since you've stepped into the prison step. β
Hearing Wang Hun's words, Ao Lie suddenly felt embarrassed, indeed, he has been running around recently, plus all kinds of things in Sanzhou need to be dealt with urgently, Ao Lie himself can't remember how long it has been since he came to be a prisoner, only remember the last time he came to be a prisoner, or after the improvement of the arrow tower and the stone thrower, count the days, I'm afraid that the one-year date that Wang Hun said is to take care of Ao Lie's face, and not to mention. (To be continued......)