Chapter 39 The Third Task Dong Zhuo of the Three Kingdoms 7

With the surrender of the Xiongnu nobles, the remaining Huns, including herding slaves, women and children, were relieved.

Lu Renbing collected 30,000 capable cavalry from all the departments, and under the heavy reward, these leaders who ignored the ten horsemen and were so angry that their noses were crooked, followed Lu Renbing.

The rest of the people were assigned by Lu Renbing to divide the station, and the seven people, under the leadership of their respective leaders, rushed to the new station according to Lu Renbing's arrangement. Of course, the escort of Lu Renbing's army is indispensable.

Lu Renbing arranged for the Huns, gathered the knights, and appeased the people, and another two months passed. In the past two months, Lu Renbing has not been idle, but has upgraded the equipment for the army in hand. And the state, Hedong is an important salt and iron town. The state also has coal, the most important resource for ironmaking.

When Lu Renbing came to the treasure land, how could he return empty-handed. Four months is enough time for Lu Renbing to give a big upgrade to the ironmaking industry in Bingzhou. Coke steelmaking and ironmaking are not difficult things for Lu Renbing, who has made up for some earth-based metallurgy. Hedong began to smelt iron in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the scale of iron smelting in the Han Dynasty was also quite amazing.

Lu Renbing gathered craftsmen and upgraded iron-smelting equipment, blowers, coke, soil blast furnaces, soil forging machines, steel clamping method, and steel frying method. Then optimize the production process. Recruiting displaced people to dig coal, burn charcoal, and transport them solved the employment problem of tens of thousands of people.

In four months, hundreds of thousands of catties of good steel were produced. These upgraded iron-smelting stations are all controlled by Lu Renbing's manpower, and they can't cheapen others for the time being.

Lu Renbing now has 200,000 horses in his hands, and the demand for ordnance is staggering. Thinking about the huge Eastern Han Dynasty, which only raised tens of thousands of standing troops in peacetime, you can know how expensive it is to raise an army.

The state is in tatters, and it simply can't raise so many well-equipped troops. Fortunately, Lu Renbing is now stealing the authority of the central Han Dynasty and can use the strength of the whole country to support this army. can also be found in the state of the open and strong, in order to barely maintain. It is urgent to open up financial resources to support the army. Lu Renbing is still the pastor of the state, and the state is his territory, and no one cares what he does. Therefore, it is urgent to accelerate the industrialization of the state.

Only the industrialized annexation of states can support more troops. Fortunately, now Lu Renbing has the right time, place and people in his hands.

The war in Bingzhou and the displacement everywhere provided Lu Renbing with a large amount of cheap labor. Not all of the Huns followed the people. Lu Renbing also received the families of 30,000 knights, about 160,000 people, all of whom were ready-made laborers.

The heroes who looted and merged the state hoarded a large amount of grain, grass, gold and silver, and had sufficient starting capital. There are iron mines and coal mines in the state, which is simply the best base for industrialization. With steel, there is a strong army, and with a strong army, there is the world.

If you don't farm, wait for when.

One of the most important aspects of upgrading equipment is to upgrade cavalry equipment.

Chinese cavalry has been used for hundreds of years, but the cavalry equipment is still very rudimentary, the saddle is rudimentary, the stirrups are still wooden, and the horses' shoes are not large-scale equipment. The tactics of the cavalry were still mainly cavalry shooting.

Lu Renbing's subordinates, together with the Xiliang cavalry, the Hun cavalry, and the Luoyang cavalry, now have 70,000 cavalry and 100,000 horses, which can be called the largest cavalry group in the entire Han Dynasty.

After upgrading the cavalry equipment, Lu Renbing's legion is invincible in the world, and it is not just talking.

The reason why the cavalry of the Han Dynasty was expensive was that in addition to the difficulty of knight training and the high consumption of knight horses, the serious loss of horses was also an important reason.

The Northern Expedition of the Western Han Dynasty to the Xiongnu, after a battle, the loss of tens of thousands of horses was a trivial matter. An important reason is that the horse's protective measures are not in place. There are no hooves on the hooves, and when the road conditions are poor, the hooves are worn out badly, which can easily injure the horses. The horses had no armor on their bodies and were easily wounded by bows and arrows, and Lu Renbing now had money and iron.

So he spent a lot of money on all the horses, equipped them with farriers, leather armor for their faces, saddles for Takahashi, iron stirrups on both sides, and each knight was equipped with a ring-headed steel sword, a spear, and a crossbow.

Regardless of Hu Han, one piece of equipment. Because the cavalry of the Han Dynasty was originally dominated by the Qiang, Xiongnu, Wuhuan, and Xianbei people, the loyalty of these soldiers is undoubted, and the so-called ethnic differences only exist in the mouths of high-level and scholars. Among the Xiongnu, there were many Han people who fled and plundered, and the Han army was full of Qianghu from border counties.

Otherwise, why do you think the Xiongnu and Xianbei Kolloobian counties are taking captive of the population? Ethnic distinctions exist only in the mouths of the scholars and the ruling class. Regardless of Hu Han, the population at the bottom is a tool man in the eyes of the ruler.

Tool people also have their own consciousness, whoever gives a full mouth, will mix with whom.

So why do you think that all dynasties and dynasties should carry out loyalty education. Why did the Qing Dynasty still build a temple for Yue Fei, and Meng Yuan still wanted to build a biography for Wen Tianxiang.

Loyal men are needed for any ruler. It doesn't matter if the person is an enemy or one of their own. This is the reason why a righteous person is admired throughout the world.

Therefore, Lu Renbing has no pressure to equip the Hun cavalry, the families of these knights are under his control, and the whole family eats their own food, and whoever has a brain will betray.

After the cavalry is redressed, it still needs to be run-in. From simple riding and archery to riding and charging and slashing, the tactics have changed revolutionarily, and any knight needs to be systematically trained.

Lu Renbing consulted the tactics and tactics of famous cavalrymen in history, and he sorted out these things in his memory and distributed them to the generals who commanded the troops, so that they could train these cavalry according to their own understanding. The specific application still needs to be tested by actual combat, and finally a new method of operation will be formed.

None of this needs Lu Renbing to worry about.

Lu Renbing selected more than 5,000 excellent horsemen from various armies, and selected 10,000 tall and sturdy horses from various armies, and assembled the Xuantie heavy cavalry battalion, Xu Huang was the main general, these 5,000 people can wear heavy armor, one person and two horses, and the horses are also fully equipped. It is used to break through enemy lines.

3,000 strong men were selected to form a Mo knife team wearing heavy armor, called the battle, and the main general was Gao Shun.

The equipment of the infantry has also been upgraded, leather armor, iron armor, spears, short swords, scimitars, water bottles, quivers, helmets and other equipment have all been improved, the infantry is also equipped with a car shield, a cart equipped to the tun, with mules and horses as the foot force, usually pull tent weapons, in battle, the car shield is used to build fortifications, resist arrows and cavalry charges.

After Lu Renbing pacified the state and the Xiongnu, he sat in Taiyuan and began to repair the army, farming and steelmaking.

In February of the second year of Zhaoning, Lu Renbing quelled the Xiongnu rebellion, recovered Henan, and invited the five counties of Beidi, Shangjun, and Jiuyuan to return to the imperial court.

After several months of communication with these bigwigs, Dong Zhuo has already obtained their promise to release Yuan Shao and others, and not to pursue their crimes of rebellion, at the cost of Dong Zhuo's promotion to the position of Taishi, Prime Minister, Leader and State Pastor, Fengyi County Hou, The cost of the restoration of Nangong will be borne by all the families of the Emperor, and the atonement money of Yuan Shao and these people will be added. The prices are all in accordance with the price list of Comrade Liu Hong, Emperor Ling. Don't cash it, just food and cloth.

Under the pretext of Dong Zhuo's pacification and recovery of Henan, the deal between the two sides began to be reached. The imperial court issued an edict, Jin Dong Zhuo was the prince, the prime minister, the marquis, led and annexed the state pastor, gave the sword to the palace, and praised the nameless.

issued an edict to pardon Yuan Shao and other cadres for the crime of rebellion, and gave food and silk to atone for their sins, and to bear the cost of restoring Nangong.

In a few months, Lu Renbing has investigated the assets of these people's families, and prescribed a painful but just affordable price to individuals according to their net worth.

Now the natural disasters of the Han Dynasty are continuous, and the land wealth is concentrated among the local wealthy families, and the imperial court is in financial difficulties. Emperor Ling relied on selling officials to maintain the operation of the imperial court. Now there is an opportunity to scrape money from Haoqiang, and of course Lu Renbing will not let it go.

At the peak of the Han Dynasty, the annual income was 20 to 4 billion yuan. In order to cope with the disasters in the next few years, Lu Renbing is not subject to copper money, as long as food.

The thousands of officials and generals at all levels who were seized had rich family assets. After getting Lu Renbing's conditions, he only felt a pain and agreed.

Before the edict was issued, grain trucks from all over the country had already set off. Lu Renbing ordered people to repair Taicang and reorganize Aocang. Because of the severe drought in Guanzhong this year, relief is needed. Therefore, he repaired the cangcheng of the counties of Guanzhong, and ordered the grain and grass of Kansai to be directly transported to these cangcheng. In the end, all the warehouses were filled with grain and grass, enough to cope with Guanzhong for two years.

The wealth of the local magnates can be seen.

There is food in his hand, and he does not panic, so he sends reliable people for Lu Renbing and leads heavy troops to guard the grain. And he released the prisoners.

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu stepped out of the cage, and their spirits were still a little trance. He was taken home by his family and did not recover for more than half a month.