Chapter 425: Cavalry Expansion

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A rooster crows sounded, when the rooster crowed for the third time, the eastern sky became brighter and brighter, and soon the Qingshui Village, which is located at the junction of the central mountain range of Pingyang County and Changzhou Island, also quickly became lively, at this time the farm work has been all busy, except for a few farm work, most of the people are not too early, so the first to get up at this time is the children in the village.

Since the comprehensive pacification of the entire Changzhou Island of the Japanese and Ezo people, Qingshui Village, which was originally the most vulnerable to foreign invasion, has become a place with a good environment because of the mountains and rivers behind it, and from time to time students from Pingyang County will come to play.

Moreover, Qingshui Village is one of the first batch of one hundred and five tunbao built in Pingyang County, after so many years of development, of course, it will not be bad, and there is a bottomless cave nearby, which attracts a large number of tourists.

In ten years, the villagers who have settled down have begun to have a jaw-dropping fertility rate, excluding those who were born in various parts of Sanqi and have now grown up teenagers, the first generation of children born in Qingshui Village are almost ten years old this year.

Since ancient times, there have been many children and many blessings, but what bothers these villagers is that there is not much land, because when the land is first allocated, because the village is surrounded by mountains, the land is just enough, and when their children grow up, there is no extra land to distribute here.

If it was in the land of Sanqi in the past, these villagers would have to set their sights on the mountains not far away, where the soil is very thick, and the slopes are not very steep, as long as they are diligent enough, they can reclaim the same scale as the flat land, although the harvest is less than that of the flat land, but it is not far from home.

But these people don't dare!

The laws of the East China Sea are extremely strict on environmental protection, not to mention a series of laws and regulations promulgating by Wang Ze in the past, such as the "Law of Hunting in the Mountains and Forests" and the "Law of Lakes and Rivers", and later there is also the authority on the scope of land use, and the people are not allowed to reclaim the land originally planned as pastures and woodlands into cultivated land without authorization.

For this reason, in the past ten years, hundreds of people have been exiled to the remote South Seas and even to the island of Kamchatka in the far north for disobeying the law.

Although some Confucian scholars criticized Wang Ze, claiming that this was endangering the interests of the people, persecution, and learning from King Zhou Li, but no one paid attention to these pedantic Confucian scholars.

It's not that Wang Ze doesn't give these people land, it's just that because there are few land resources in the East China Sea, if everyone wants to allocate enough land, they can only move to the land of Beji, otherwise the abundant arable land can only be a joke.

It's just that many people here in the East China Sea would rather live a tight life than continue to migrate after their lives are stable, not to mention that it was still a sparsely populated place at that time, so Wang Ze didn't have any way to force these people to relocate!

The situation that Qingshuizhai is facing now is also like this!

In the smoke of cooking, the courtyard door of a family in the village creaked open, and then four or five children of different sizes in spring shirts ran out giggling, they wanted to play with other children, the big tree in the middle of the village of Qingshui Village has now become the center of all children playing.

A tall middle-aged man in the courtyard watched these children go away, with an uncontrollable smile on his face, but when these children walked away, his face was full of sadness.

This man who was in his thirties is now more than forty-five years old, although he is still burly, his face is much older, and his eyes are still sharp.

"What's wrong with the old money?" A middle-aged man suddenly walked on the street, but it was Zhang Qing, who had just stepped down as the head of the village for ten years, and he saw Qian Desheng, the most powerful man in the village, and smiled: "I was here early in the morning with a sad face, what's wrong?" ”

To say that Qian Desheng has been living a good life over the years, although the old lady is not in good health, she rarely gets sick, and she can also help take care of a few good grandchildren, even if the mother-in-law she married is a Silla woman, she is extremely gentle and lovely, and her appearance is also good.

Moreover, over the years, the Silla woman gave birth to four boys and one girl to Qian Desheng in one go, which can be said to be a harmonious family, and his family has two or three hundred acres of land, two slaves, and a large amount of money rewarded for meritorious service when he fought against the Ezo people.

It can be said that at the beginning, this honest and incomparably honest Qian Desheng, after the Xia State conquered the Wa Kingdom, changed from the original penniless to a gold brick king, if it weren't for his age, otherwise there would definitely be a large number of matchmakers to tell him matchmaking.

Over the years, Qian Desheng has also lived a very nourishing life, he is originally an easily contented character, and he even showed a rare sad face, which surprised Zhang Qing, who has been the head of the tun for more than ten years, Zhang Qing has always been more enthusiastic, and he was re-elected for a second term by relying on Qian Desheng's support, and then he suddenly cared about Qian Desheng's appearance.

When Zhang Qing asked, Qian Desheng sighed and said: "Although I earned two or three hundred acres of land at the beginning, and the money that His Majesty rewarded, but when the money is finally spent, the land is the capital of inheritance, but I now have four sons, so that each person can only get fifty acres of land in the future!" "Ninety-four Good Books Network

Saying that, Qian Desheng shook his head again and again, but Zhang Qing retorted in a low voice: "You forgot, Your Majesty has decreed that the women of our Xia Kingdom also have the right to inherit, so these must still have five children to divide, and I have this problem there!" ”

Saying that, even Zhang Qing couldn't help sighing, in their village, these two people who are relatively good have sighed like this, but the other villagers have less land, in the past, they patronized and were so happy for the child they born, and now seeing that the child is about to reach the age of twelve, they have to be anxious about this matter.

"Alas, old money," Zhang Qing suddenly looked up and said, "Didn't you know a few big people who were generals in the Zhonghu Army at the beginning?" Can you get them to help?"

Qian Desheng smiled and said: "Oh, these are the little brothers I knew at the beginning, but they are only the captains of the Zhonghu Army, and now they still remember me, and they will write to greet me every year," Speaking of this, Qian Desheng suddenly remembered something, and then ran back to the house and took out a letter.

Then he said to Zhang Qing: "Tun Chief, I have an idea, why don't the brothers in our village move to the land of Beji together!" This letter was written to me by the brother named Li Biao last time, saying that in the future, the land of Beji will definitely be the center, and there will be more arable land and there will not be so many restrictions here! At that time, they persuaded me to move there! ”

"But I've heard that the conditions for moving to the land of Beji are not very good!" Although Zhang Qing was a little moved, he was still a little worried, he worried, "I heard that some people move to places close to the border, isn't this more dangerous?" ”

Qian Desheng thought for a while before continuing: "How is it possible, after all, Your Majesty wants to take us to live a good life, even if we really want to move to the border, we will definitely explain it in advance, and there will be a lot of benefits, we will not be relocated to the border for no reason!" ”

Hearing Qian Desheng's explanation, everyone knew Wang Ze's personality, Zhang Qing was finally more relieved and more excited.

He thought for a while and gritted his teeth and said: "Old Qian, you can worry more about this matter, and then write letters to your little brothers, and ask if we can move our village together in one go, and our old brothers can still be neighbors!" ”

There was no war during this time, and Qian Desheng's letters were soon sent to Wang Zongling, Qin Han, and Li Biao, and soon they all gave their own suggestions, especially the advice given by Qin Han that made them the most excited, two hundred miles away from the north of Zhenhai, near the junction of Bibo Lake (Xingkai Lake) and Wushui, where a large number of people could also be settled.

At this time, the Xia State's occupation of the land of Beji was still dominated by point occupation, and there was still a large amount of undeveloped land between the various settlements, even if the Wushui and Mingtongjiang river basins were the most smoothly relocated places at present, but the number of people resettled was still small.

After Qin Han's exact reply, Qian Desheng and Zhang Qing found Li An, who was already the head of the village, and after discussing with a group of old brothers and other people in the entire village, suddenly ninety percent of the people in the entire village were willing to move, so they acted quickly.

What Qian Desheng didn't know was that the scene in front of them was being staged everywhere in the entire East China Sea, and in order to relocate the people, Wang Ze could be said to have exhausted all means, and now the land of Beji can finally be honestly controlled in his own hands.

Although it was important to relocate the people, Wang Ze began to focus on expanding the scale of the cavalry, and now after more than ten years of expansion, the original cavalry scale is increasingly unable to meet the needs of the Xia State to fight in the land of Beji.

The cavalry really can't help but expand!

At the earliest, at the end of the war in the Waguo Islands, because there were too few war horses and too many cavalry to support too much, Wang Ze had suppressed the number of cavalry in a small share.

Later, while the Xia Kingdom continued to buy horses while herding on its own, especially after the full expansion of the Beji Land, the number of horses in the Xia Kingdom has been increasing at an alarming rate, until now it has increased to millions of horses.

After having enough war horses, there were millions of people, especially after noticing this battle of Nanshui and Jiang Chuan's battle of ten thousand waters, Wang Ze finally began to face up to the fact that most of the enemies he faced in the future were nomadic forces on horseback.

After some thought, Wang Ze decided to first separate Li Hongyu's troops stationed in Yangwu City and become the Fifth Cavalry Division, and then further increase the strength from the existing 8,000 to 15,000 cavalry, and the Jiang Chuan Division was also reorganized from the original infantry to mounted infantry.

In addition, Wang Ze also recruited a large number of cavalry from the herdsmen who had begun to fully mobilize Whale Island and Sakhalin Island, and the herdsmen and young people who had been suppressed for many years were also excited to sign up one after another, and Wang Ze recruited enough recruits in a short period of time.

After having new soldiers, Wang Ze also began to comprehensively expand Hu Bingchang's original cavalry army, and the original four brigades were gradually expanded from the original 5,000 men to a cavalry division of 15,000 cavalry in the future, so that Xia soon had 75,000 regular cavalry.

However, of course, these cavalry will not be commanded by Hu Bingchang alone, Ji Xiang and Li Hongyu are independent from Hu Bingchang's department and become a separate cavalry division, while the other Yang Wu and Yan Xiaowu still follow Hu Bingchang to fight.

In addition, Wang Ze simply expanded the cavalry under the command of Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu, Cheng Hu was separated to lead the armored cavalry that had become an independent army, and Zhu Bofu had a new partner, that is, Pei Xiu Pei Duwei, who had made meritorious contributions in Hecheng!