(Everyone has a holiday today, it seems that I can't wish a happy Qingming Festival!) Haha)

In mid-December, heavy snow fell at the western foot of Tongbai Mountain for three consecutive days, making the Nanyang Basin covered with heavy snow. From Fangcheng to the south, before entering the Tang River, there is a line of chariots and horses in the snow to the wind, looking from a distance, like walking ants.

Yuan Guizheng and Liu Tingzhou straddled the horses and walked on the reins, and from time to time there were strong winds that rolled up snow particles and smashed them on their heads and faces, making people feel more and more sad in this bitter cold weather......

In December, Yue Zhi also led his troops to the north, and Lin Jian planned to issue a Privy Council order in Fancheng, officially reorganizing the Huaidong and Henan armies into the Henan Recruiting Army, with Dong Yuan as the recruiting envoy and supervising the Henan Recruiting Army, Yue Lengqiu as the supervising army envoy and supervising the grain of the Henan Army, Liu Tingzhou as the imperial history of the procuratorial army and leading the Henan Xuanfu Envoy, and Yuan Guizheng as the envoy of the Guanjun Rong.

Under the Henan Recruitment Army, six town commanders were set up, with Deng Yu, Tao Chun, Xiao Kui'an, Chen Juxian, Liang Chengdong and Suizhou subordinate general Luo Jian as the town commanders, and Yue Zhi, Zhong Rong, Wang Xian'er, Huo Tong, etc. will be the deputy commanders; Make Tao Chun and Yue Zhi fight in the vortex Yang, with Shangqiu and Yucheng as the front base; Chen Juxian, Luo Jian, and Liang Chengdong settled in Xuchang, with Changge as the front base; Deng Yu was stationed in Zhengyang and Queshan, and Xiao Kuian was stationed in Ruzhou.

The Henan Recruitment Army was reorganized, and Xu retained a total of 130,000 troops, of which 30,000 were made up of Tao Chun (Yue Zhi's deputy commander), 20,000 were assigned to Deng Yu, and a total of 80,000 troops were given to Xiao Kuian, Chen Juxian, Liang Chengdong, and Luo Jian.

The Privy Council order drafted by Lin Jian seemed to be no problem at first glance.

Before the war, Huaixi, including the tun soldiers, had a total establishment of only 110,000, and after deducting the tun soldiers, the number of war soldiers was more than 60,000; At this time, the Chizhou army was incorporated into the sequence of the Henan Recruitment Army, and the number of soldiers was as high as 130,000, so it can be said that there was no suspicion of suppressing the actions and suspicions of the Henan army on the surface.

The problem is that Lin Jian took advantage of his wartime monopoly to directly reorganize the Henan armies in the name of the Privy Council, and appointed the generals of the Henan armies, so that the Privy Council could control the military affairs of the world, and the "imperial order not to leave the palace" was further made public and formalized.

Another is that at the same time that Dong Yuan moved the envoy to Xuchang, at the same time, Yue Lengqiu did not go to Xuchang and took charge of official business in Xuyang, which actually made the Henan Recruitment Army form two military and political centers that contain each other in Xuchang and Xuyang.

On the surface, the two towns of Taochun and Dengyu controlled by Yue Lengqiu were only 50,000 soldiers, and the money and grain of the Henan armies were also allocated completely in proportion to the number of soldiers, that is to say, the central calculation of the money and grain allocated to the Henan recruiting army every year, Yue Lengqiu could only control a total of one million silver in the name of Wuyang, and the total amount of money and grain returned to Xuchang was as high as 1.6 million taels.

Tao Chun, Deng Yu two departments stationed in Xuyang, Zhengyang, Queshan and other places, in the past was the outer defense line of Huaixi, the city defense, at the same time in the entire Henan defense line, and located on the inside, even on both sides of the vortex River and Zhengyang south to the north bank of the Huai River, there are hundreds of thousands of acres of tuntian can be directly used; Therefore, Vortex Yang can get one million taels of silver every year, and he can barely use it.

After Dong Yuan was forced to lead his troops to cross the Huai to the north, he occupied Ruzhou, Xuchang, Changge, Yanling and other places, although Xuchang was once the center of the Henan Prefectures, fertile for thousands of miles, but for more than ten years it has been repeatedly devastated by wars, and has been completely reduced to a ruined land.

Fortunately, when Chen Zhihu's troops withdrew, they did not further destroy these areas, which made the situation around Xuchang and Ruzhou slightly better, but only slightly better.

Now, nominally, the Central Committee allocates 1.6 million taels of silver and grain to Xuchang every year, but these money and grain are only enough for 80,000 soldiers and horses and tens of thousands of soldiers to starve to death in the remnants of the land around Xuchang.

In order to support Yue Lengqiu to contain Dong Yuan, in addition to the regular salary of money and grain, Lin Lian allocated an additional 20% of the fire consumption for moving feet, which is equivalent to 500,000 taels of silver, which is actually in the hands of Yue Lengqiu, who "also supervises the grain and straw of the Henan army......

And in the appointment of the commander of the six towns and the garrison, Lin Jian did not hide the killing machine.

The Wuyang Town Army nominally made Tao Chun the commander, but with an army of 30,000 and Yue Zhi as the deputy commander, it was actually easy to expand into two towns, so that Yue Lengqiu's military power in Henan was not much weaker than Dong Yuan, at least Yue Lengqiu had enough strength to contain Dong Yuan; Of the 80,000 soldiers and horses controlled by Dong Yuan, Xiao Kuian'an had the closest relationship with Huaidong, so he was stationed in Ruzhou, which was also in the area north of Nanyang where the Huaidong Army was stationed, and isolated the three armies of Liang Chengdong, Chen Juxian, and Luo Jian, who were really hostile to Huaidong.

Lin Jian officially appointed Luo Jian as the commander of the town, which was also a formal recognition of the status of the Suizhou subordinate army and the fact that it was incorporated into the Henan Recruiting Army. But among the four generals who were subordinated to Suizhou, Zhong Rong's status was the highest, and Lin Jian used Luo Jian, who was the most loyal to Luo Xiancheng, relatively loyal and brave and less strategic, as the town commander to suppress Zhong Rong, Huo Tong, and Wang Xian'er.

Although they braved the wind and snow, in the eyes of Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Guizheng, the situation faced by Xuchang was ten or a hundred times more dangerous than the wind, snow and cold land they were in......

Thinking that when passing through Ruyang, the meeting with Xiao Kuianan was not pleasant, and Liu Tingzhou was also worried about it. Xiao Kui Anming didn't say anything on his face, but how could he have no opinion on Dong Yuan's withdrawal of all the soldiers and horses on the periphery of Zhengyang in the war, so that he could defend Zhengyang alone?

Lin Jian did not pursue the matter, otherwise he would have been charged with fearing the enemy and crossing the border, and sent several horsemen to arrest Xiao Kuian. Lin Jian didn't pursue the matter, Xiao Kui couldn't count at all? In addition, Yuan Hancheng, the king of Chu, was also completely placed under house arrest in Shouzhou, making it difficult to contact the outside world.

At this time, a team of chariots and horses came from the direction of Miyang, and two horses came to report first, but it was the chariot and horse team that escorted Tao Chun from Wuyang...... Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Guizheng looked at each other, walking with Tao Chun, full of embarrassment; If you don't walk with Tao Chun when you meet, wouldn't it make the Huaidong Army in Nanyang and Xiangyang laugh when they see it?

However, Lin Jian summoned Henan to recruit military generals in Fancheng to discuss the regional defense and military deployment of Nanyang, Xiangyang and Henan, Tao Chun temporarily put down his military power and rushed to Fancheng to see Lin Jian on behalf of Yue Lengqiu, which in itself was a gesture that made Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Guizheng look cold.

But Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Guizheng couldn't express their position, Tao Chun made sure that this was their carriage and horse, so he took a few horsemen and guards, and rode his horse to meet him first: "Ben will stop for a day in Miyang, just wait for Yuan Hou Ye and Lord Liu to come over; Jinsheng was still a guest in Vortex Yang, and he originally wanted to come over with Yuan Hou Ye together, but he contracted a cold in Vortex Yang, and there was a seal trust that would have been handed over to Yuan Hou Ye......"

After the collapse of Nanyang, Yuan Jinsheng returned to Jiangning to report the news and asked the Privy Council to detain him into prison; After the war, Lin Jian cut off the right to lead Liang Chengyi on the grounds of the ruin of the Ruyang army, and appointed Liang Chengdong, a side branch of the Liang family, as the commander of the town, and rectified the remnants of the Nanyang and Hezhong armies.

It seems that the Liang family's power is still in the hands of the Liang family's disciples, and Liang Chengdong even resigned from the town command several times to make him appointed, but what Liang Chengdong really thinks in his heart, others are still difficult to guess.

After the battle in Xiangyang, Liang Chengchong died in battle, and Liang Chengyi took the responsibility for the defeat of the army, and made him a knight and a servant, so Lin Jian ordered Yuan Jinsheng to be released from prison and returned to Xuchang - Yuan Guizheng heard that Jinsheng was infected with a cold in Wuyang, and his heart tightened, thinking that he was tortured in Jiangning in prison, otherwise his body would not be so weak.

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After the recovery of Xiangyang, the Battle of Jingxiang was completely over, but the rest of the soldiers and horses and the adjustment of defense in the later period were all a mess, so Lin Jian continued to stay in Fancheng after the Battle of Xiangyang, and did not immediately leave to return to Jiangning.

Fancheng is also snowing heavily for three consecutive days, the weather is cold and freezing, Lin Jian is used to practicing knives in the court to boil his muscles and bones, in order to keep fit, Song Jia is sitting in front of the porch, basking in the cold sun after the snow, watching Lin Tie wearing short clothes and practicing knives with fine sweat on his forehead, which seems to be not invaded by the severe cold at all.

Watching Lin Tie put away his knife and walk to the corridor, Song Jia wiped the fine sweat from his forehead with a sweat towel, and asked him to quickly put on his robe, and said: "Liu Tingzhou, Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun met in the Tang River, and they came south with a team, and they will be able to reach Fancheng the day after tomorrow......"

Lin Lian didn't want to see Liu Tingzhou, he believed that Liu Tingzhou had no ambitions, and he was different from Dong Yuan, but he really had nothing to say about this kind of royalist party who was so stubborn that he didn't even hesitate to communicate with the captives and harm the people's livelihood, but he had to summon the people in Henan, so that the power and prestige of the Privy Council infiltrated the hearts of the people step by step.

Lin Jian took a piece of wiped knife and put it on top of the knife holder, put the robe up, sighed lightly, and said: "It's been too long for this trip to come out, they can arrive the day after tomorrow, then let's set off back to Jiangning the day after tomorrow!" ”

"I want to go to Xuzhou to meet Miaozhen......," Song Jia said.

"Why don't you accompany me back to Jiangning?" Lin Jian asked.

"I'm afraid that after I return to Jiangning, I will tear up those few people who are eager to be crisp," Song Jiayan said with a smile, "Besides, you will go to Xuzhou after spring, and I will wait for you in Xuzhou ......."

"That's fine," Lin Jian said, "but the ten-day journey back to Jiangning from Fancheng will inevitably be lonely." ”

"Then let Zuo Lan and Zuo Yan accompany you, it's a big deal to ask the two sisters to go back to Jiangning and tear those ......few apart," Song Jia said, "However, I think you still have to recuperate, and those in Jiangning are hungry." ”

Lin Jian stretched out his hand and pinched Song Jia's waist, and at this time, Hu Wei came in and reported: "Lord Gao asks to see ......"

"Zongting, come in," Lin Jian said to Gao Zongting, who was already in the outer court, "I was about to talk to you about going back to Jiangning, what is the matter with you?" ”

"There is a fast rider from Jiangning to send a message," Gao Zongting came in, saluted Song Jia, and said, "The Queen Mother sent people to spread the news from the palace, saying that it was based on the merits of Jiangning, Shangrao, and Jingxiang, and gave Huaidong generals a reward for the land; Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Political Affairs Hall will directly block the unruly disorder, according to what the Zong Court has seen, the Queen Mother's intention is only to spread the news......"

"This old witch still has the strength," Lin Tie stood with his belt in his hand, frowned, and said, "If she engages in this kind of carving insect trick, she is not afraid that I will directly abolish the Yuan Clan?" ”

"The Empress Dowager Xu also understands a little bit that your mind is not simply self-reliance," Song Jia said, "so I took this risky strategy as a test ......."

Lin Jian sighed lightly, if it was just to establish a new dynasty and satisfy his own ambitions, after the first battle of Jingxiang, he would have ninety percent confidence in controlling the situation in Jiangning and killing the Yuan clan and ascending the throne.

Even if Cao Yiqu formally seceded Shu and Dong Yuan, Liu Tingzhou and others surrendered to Northern Yan and fought against Huaidong in the name of Emperor Kuangfu, the war would be delayed for three or four years at most.

However, if the war drags on for three or four years, it means that millions of lives cannot be saved, and several times more people are displaced. More importantly, at this time, if the Yuan Yuan is abolished and self-reliance is awarded, the entire history may go to the old road again, and it will not be able to achieve its true goal of creating a new pattern......

Lin Tie is to make the emerging industry, mining and commerce in Jianghuai and other places become the skeleton and blood of the new empire, so that the new empire has no way back except for the industrial society, which requires continuous weakening of the traditional rentier class attached to the field, and at the same time to cultivate and support the new class based on ministry, mining and commerce - the seal of the land, whether it is the wind released by the Liang Hou, or the great feudal heroes after Lin Tie abolished the Yuan and became independent, in fact, a large number of Huaidong generals will be turned into a new elite group dependent on the rentier of the fields, This is in direct contradiction to Lin Bin's goal of opening up a new pattern.

This is where Lin Jian feels the most headache and tricky.

If the Liang family is directly based on this plan, then it has to be said that she made a very good risky move, which made Lin Jian a little advanced and retreated.

To be honest, Lin Lian's aspirations and goals are only mentioned to Song Jia, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others, and the prospects of industrial society, except for Lin Lian, who has come over, it is difficult to imagine how wise and enlightened the talent is.

It's just that Lin Jian has the prestige and power to stand at the top of the world, and the new policies he has implemented in Huaidong in the past ten years have gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so he can attract the vision and followers of truly enlightened and pragmatic talents in the world.

Thinking of this, Lin Jian also sighed with emotion and said with a wry smile: "Liang Hou is in the deep palace, and he can still make such a risky plan, but he is worthy of being a master of power calculation......

"Ignore it and snuff out the wind in Jiangning City, it's not a big deal." Gao Zongting said.

Not to mention the prestige of Lin Jian at this time, it is not something that others can replace at all; Moreover, with the Huaidong Army's different military system from the current world, and with the internal cohesion of the Huaidong Army, at this time, even when this incident has not happened, there is no need to worry that the military spirit will be shaken.

"No," Lin Jian shook his head and said, "I think we should let go and ask Jiang Ning to discuss the difference between Han and Yi at the same time, as well as the seal of Yi and Tu. ”

"If you call the tide up, it's a little difficult to press it down again?" Gao Zongting said.