The Fourth Night: East China Sea Merchants Association (4)
(Ask for tickets, ask for collections, ask for advertisements, and enter the fifth night at night)
The fourth night had just entered the third day, and the bandits had been largely wiped out, and the finishing touches were to be done by the town guards. In order to delay the opening of the border as much as possible, it is naturally impossible for the East China Sea team to return to the real world like this, and they must stay in the dream of the forces for seven days before they can do it.
At present, there are indeed many things to do in this Donghai Town, which is in ruins, although most of them are done by the Elders, but many things still have to be done by the people in their dreams.
The first is to train the elite personnel of the town guard, and the East China Sea team is equivalent to having the functions of both the martial arts hall and the academy, which is a big advantage. Therefore, although these dream people have no experience in coaching, they still work hard to teach the backbone of these town guards.
You must know that once these people grow up, they may become the generals of the Eastern Navy in the future, sharing the heavy responsibility of guarding the East China Sea territory for the people of their dreams. At this time, he was perfunctory to them, he was joking with his future, and Sima Fuqiang specially emphasized the important surname of this matter to Xiaofeng and the other three "martial arts leaders".
The art of war class has not yet started, but Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi themselves became students first. They found that they still knew too little about the forces in Dongzhou, and they didn't even know some basic place names, such as the "heart county" mentioned by Zhu Gui. They have completely seen through the woman Dong'er, and they have to take the initiative to ask about anything, so she will say half and leave half.
Therefore, I took advantage of this time to let the elders give a special class to the two of them, and talk about all the important information of the Dongzhou forces as much as possible.
The first thing that was relieved was about the origin of the place names in various parts of Dongzhou. There are a total of 81 regions in Kyushu under the jurisdiction of the Dongzhou Imperial Court, and there are four ways to name them. The first thing the East China Sea team knew was the nine towns that belonged to the people in the dream, as well as the Zhongzhou Imperial Court and the eight state capitals named and distributed by the innate gossip.
In addition to these eighteen areas, there are still 63 areas named after counties. These sixty-three counties are named 28 Su and 36 Tiangang respectively, and the extra one of them is the "Kui County" where the imperial court of Zhongzhou is located.
With Kui County as the center point of Dongzhou, Gang County, Ji County, Xian County, Yong County, Xiong County, Meng County, Wei County plus Zhongyuan Town, it forms the Zhongzhou region.
In addition to Zhongzhou, Zhenzhou in the northeast, Genzhou in the northwest, Xunzhou in the southwest, and Duzhou in the southeast also have seven counties named after Tiangang.
The four prefectures of Qian, Kun, Li, and Kan are named after the counties according to their directions. Lizhou, where the East China Sea team is located, belongs to the Oriental Qinglong, so the seven counties are the horns, Kang, Di, Fang, Heart, Tail, and Kei of the Qinglong Seven Houses.
The entire east side of Donghai Town is bordered by the sea, the capital of Lizhou Prefecture to the north, the neutral district of Xin County to the northwest, the rebel-controlled Wei County to the west, and the neutral districts of Duju County and Hui County to the south and southwest.
Although there are so many prefectures in the surrounding area, there are actually only two roads in Tokai Town, which is surrounded by hills, north and south. To the north, it is naturally to leave the state capital, and the official road to the south first passes through the border pass leading to Duzhou Prison County, and then goes west for nearly a hundred miles to isolate the rebels in Wei County. Even if you count the secret road to Xin County that Zhu Gui said, there are only three roads to the outside world in the entire East China Sea Territory.
Speaking of which, Donghai Town is definitely a strategic treasure that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the population is scarce, even if all men and women are soldiers, they are not enough people to defend the three checkpoints.
Of course, as long as the East China Sea team does not plan to stand on its own for a day, they can not worry about the checkpoints from the state capital and the prison county, as long as they guard the place leading to the end of the county. But even so, the size of the existing town guard is not enough to arrange even the most basic number of guards at the checkpoint.
According to Elder Jin Xin, who was in charge of armaments and logistics, Lizhou sent an army of 2,000 men, led by Dingyuan's general Li Wei, to guard the two checkpoints in the southwest of the East China Sea called Dongwei Pass and Dongjiao Pass respectively. Of course, the main force of Le Wei's army was basically in Dongwei Pass, which was confronted by the rebels, and the Dongjiao Pass was only symbolically garrisoned with 200 people.
It is conceivable that when Li Wei withdrew from Dongwei Pass with the Lizhou army, the pitiful hundred people of the Donghai Town Guard were not even satisfied with the city wall.
"Dongwei Guan and Wei Dongguan...... Hehe, isn't the checkpoint in our north called Dongli Pass? Huang Zhiju drew inferences from this conclusion.
Who would have thought that Elder Jin Xin laughed when he heard this, and immediately denied his guess, "There is only one checkpoint between the state capital and Donghai Town, which is called the South Pass of Lifu. In the inland plains, there are not so many mountains and rivers between counties, so there are no checkpoints to speak of, and they can only rely on some cities of the Tun army to demarcate the border. That is, several checkpoints in the southwest of our East China Sea are named like this, which is not a common phenomenon in Dongzhou. ”
After more than four days of study, Sima Fuqiang still took a pen to make notes from time to time. After some induction, he realized that Dongzhou at this time, whether it was a military system or an official system, basically followed the setting of the Tang Dynasty in China, but the current situation was a bit like the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Great Cause.
In terms of the military system, the state capitals implement the government soldier system, except for the necessary standing garrison guarding the border army, the government soldiers are called farming in peacetime and go out to fight in wartime. The Zhongzhou Imperial Court controlled the standing forbidden army and relied on the taxes of the states to support it. As for the nine towns and neutral counties where the dreamer is located, they have their own township regiments, which basically do not go out and are only responsible for local defense.
As for the rebels, it was more complicated, with local nobles supporting their own troops, bandits gathering crowds to rebel, and peasants rebelling spontaneously.
What made a lot of trouble was the peasant rebel army concentrated at the junction of the three prefectures of Li, Zhen, and Kun in the north, occupying the territory of four counties. In addition, in the two prefectures of Qianxian and Xun, there was also a group of peasant rebels who controlled three counties.
There are five local scholars who support their own troops, and most of them are concentrated in remote areas, where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the imperial court really has no energy to clean them up.
Although the Wei County thief army has repeatedly harassed the surrounding counties, it is difficult to further expand the territory because it is unpopular, so the imperial court and the state government do not care much about them.
At this time, most of the forces of the imperial court and the state capital were used to deal with the barbarians of the Northern and Southern Wilderness and prevent them from invading. A small part of them were in a state of confrontation with the two major peasant rebel armies to prevent them from further expanding their power. Therefore, the imperial court is basically unable to take care of the local warrior rebels and the bandit rebels, in this case, they hope that the towns controlled by the dream people can take on the heavy responsibility of dealing with these two rebel forces.
After comprehending the intention of the Dongzhou Imperial Court, Sima Fuqiang suddenly had a clearer understanding of the future path of the Donghai team, that is, to unite with the state capital of Lizhou and fight against the rebels in Weixian. As for the fact that the rebels would unite against the official army in turn, it would never be feasible under the present conditions, because the rebels in Wei County clearly had a bad future.
Based on the dream of the main line war of the Sui and Tang dynasties experienced by Sima Fuqiang, the rebels of the Dongzhou forces were seated together, and the rebels of Weixian were equivalent to the infamous Zhu Cangjun of the king of Garuda in that era.
As for the peasant rebel army in Dongzhou, the force is equivalent to the Wagang army, and the power of the scholar clan is equivalent to Li Tang, it is unknown. With the current strength of Donghai Town, the ability to protect itself is still insufficient, and it is too early to consider those things that fight for hegemony.
After a few days of study, although the people in the dream did not know the situation in Dongzhou well, they did not discredit their eyes, and they had a little bit of a bottom on the future road. But their stay was close to the limit, and it was time for them to leave.
Finally, it took another seven days in the power dream realm, and there were only two nights left before the border protection of the East China Sea Territory was canceled, and it was less than half a month when it was fully calculated.
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