From Xiangyang to the north, go to Yunxian County to cross the Baihe River, and then to Xing'an, a total of more than 800 miles.

Chen Wang led the troops for a total of 15 days, and finally arrived in Hung Yen at dusk on October 16.

The distance from Xing'an to Baituguan is naturally not so far, but it is more than 150 miles in the end.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were still active in the central and southern parts of Xunyang Province.

As in history, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were not in a hurry to attack Kuizhou, Sichuan at this time, but continued to gather towards Zhuxi, the city outside Baitu Pass, and made a posture that they were about to attack Hanzhong Mansion.

In the face of the advance of the soldiers and horses of Zuo Liangyu, Zu Dabi, and Chen Hongfan in the east, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai chose to mobilize the elite cavalry army to control the enemy and avoid the real and attack the weak.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai sent a lot of soldiers, pretending to be merchants, hawkers and mountain people, to go around to find out the news.

Even because of the previous cantonment in Fangxian and Gucheng, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai invited people to buy people's hearts, plus the promise that as long as useful officers and soldiers were transferred, they could be exchanged for grain or silver.

As a result, many local mountain people and ordinary people have become their eyes and ears, and often pass on the news.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were extremely clear about the movements of the officers and soldiers who were entering the suppression, and the two gathered the elite cavalry soldiers in the east, and constantly launched attacks and ambushes against the officers and soldiers who were attacking and suppressing according to the information they obtained.

As soon as most of the officers and men came to help, they quickly moved forward, and the main force of the officers and troops either flew into the air or encountered an ambush on the way to pursue and suffered losses.

Hanzhong was originally the direction of the feint, and now Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's main energy is in the east.

Cao Bianjiao had also led the cavalry to Baitu Pass first, so it was safer.

Therefore, Chen Wang was not in a hurry when he assigned the march.

The 150-mile road was quite mountainous, so it took about four days to reach the Baitu Pass at dusk on October 20.

When Chen Wang led his troops to Guancheng, Cao Bianjiao did not lead his troops to meet.

Because the rogues outside the pass have been moving frequently recently, Cao Bianjiao led the cavalry out to reconnoitre, so they were not in the gate.

Cao Bianjiao has always been like this, many times he personally led the troops to reconnoitre, and when Chen Wang was still in charge of Cao Wenzhao, he also reconnoitred with Cao Bianjiao many times.

As for the question of Cao Bianjiao's safety, Chen Wang is even less worried.

The cavalry that followed Cao Bianjiao were all elites who came down from the battlefield in Liaodong, and now there are most of the rogue foot soldiers gathered in Zhuxi City, Baitu Guandong, and there are not many horsemen and elite cavalry.

Just because these rogues want to keep Cao Bianjiao, it's just a fantasy.

According to the prior plan, some camps and towns were stationed inside the city, some camps and towns were stationed outside the city, and some camps and towns were stationed on other major roads.

Each camp and town performed its own duties, and all the roads leading from Yunyang Fu South Road to the hinterland of Hanzhong Fu were cut off from it.

Chen Wang, as the main general, naturally led his troops to garrison the city.

The original Guancheng of Baituguan is still intact, and there are all kinds of official offices, enemy buildings, barracks, school military grounds, Guandi Temple, inns, teahouses, wine shops, etc.

There were not many places where troops could be stationed in Baitu Pass, and there were only more than 1,000 people who followed Chen Wang into the city.

After taking over the city defense from the original defenders, Chen Wang handed over the affairs of the defense directly to Hu Zhiyi, and then left it directly in the Chinese army's tent.

"It's all excused."

Chen Wang raised his hand, and the generals and officials of the Chinese military tent stood up.

In addition to Chen Gong and Hu Zhiyi, Wang Yuankang, who was the commander of Han Zhongwei, was also in the account.

Because of the weak original strength of Hanzhong Prefecture, it was also in the sequence of being called up to fight as a guard.

Han Zhongwei is now actually controlled by Wang Yuankang, and there is a call from Chen Wang, so Wang Yuankang led his troops to help.

Of course, the so-called weakness is only the weakness on the surface.

When Chen Wang went north to King Qin, there were six infantry and one cavalry under his command, with a total of 6,300 people.

With the addition of the two newly built thousand-household offices, each of which has more than 1,000 guards, the total strength has already exceeded the 9,000 mark.

The guards of these thousand households were trained in accordance with the training regulations of Chen Wang's headquarters, that is, when the farmers were busy, they reduced the intensity of their training a little and let them help in farming.

However, on paper, there are only 4,000 soldiers in Hanzhong Mansion today.

After all, there was only one deputy commander-in-chief, one deputy commander-in-chief, one guerrilla in Zhou Yumao, and two battalions of 5,000 soldiers.

Chen Wang led his troops north, and there were nearly 1,000 casualties in his headquarters, and the number of troops that could fight on paper was naturally only 4,000 in Hanzhong Mansion.

Although the town level of Hanzhong Town was raised, the number of troops was set at 13,400 people.

But Chen Wang has always been cautious about the fixed number of troops, and naturally he will not leak his true strength.

Chen Wang asked Hu Zhiyi to successively turn the troops that had been recruited under the guise of auxiliaries into regular soldiers.

At the same time, he also recruited troops from Hanzhong Prefecture, Xi'an and Fengxiang Prefectures, and recruited about 3,000 people before and after, filling the number of soldiers to 10,000, and slowly recruiting the rest.

"You are now a general, and the seal has been received, and the second battalion that I originally made up was led by you as your surprise battalion."

Back in Hanzhong, Chen Wang's feeling couldn't be better.

Before, I was always limited by the constraints of the number of soldiers, and I could only be careful in what I did, but now that I don't have these constraints, I am naturally much happier.

And more importantly, after Chen Gong followed him north to King Qin, he became much more stable.

On the Qinwang Road, Chen Wang also took the initiative to delegate power to Chen Gong many times, sharpening Chen Gong's ability to lead troops to fight.

Now that Chen Gong is allowed to lead a battalion of soldiers and horses alone, Chen Wang is also more relieved, but what should be said still has to be said.

"Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai are not easy to match, you lead a battalion alone, and I am afraid that there will be a time to fight the enemy alone in the future."

"Liukou has stayed in Yunxiang and developed for nearly a year, and now the soldiers are fully armoured, and the combat power is not what it used to be.

"Now that you have reached the status of a general, I have also become the chief soldier, and the scale of Hanzhong Town has reached its peak."

Chen Wang pondered for a moment, then lowered his voice.

"If there are too many meritorious contributions, and there are promotions and rewards from above, I am afraid that you will be transferred to Jiliao."

"Don't worry, big brother, I understand that there will definitely be measure."

Chen Gong understood in his heart, and Chen Wang had already revealed to him his willingness to do something a long time ago.

On Dingjun Mountain that day, what Chen Wang said to him has always been in his heart.

In troubled times, there are soldiers who are the king of grass!

As for what kind of promotion and fortune, sealing his wife and son, Chen Gong doesn't care at all now.

What is the general and the general army, they will get it when the time comes, but the whole world!

All the way to the king, he saw everything in his eyes.

In the eyes of most civil officials, these generals will never be on the stage, lackeys and minions.

What about Wu Chen's apex?

Even if it is the chief soldier of a town, the commander of the Wen Shuai will kill if he says that he will kill, and he does not even need to go through the rules and regulations set by the imperial court.

Whether it is a deputy general or a general soldier, with or without a general's seal, when they see those civilian governors, they all have to kneel down and obey orders.

The local magistrates and county magistrates are obviously of much lower grades than them.

But they asked the military attachés to salute first.

The dignified military attache of the second rank actually saluted the civil officials of the fifth grade, how aggrieved.

Qi Shaobao, who had great achievements in the past and was famous all over the world, did not have to rely on Zhang Juzheng, who was in charge, to be able to gain a firm foothold.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, he was immediately relocated to Guangdong, and soon went to work and leisure, and then died of illness at the age of 61 due to poverty.

When the imperial court learned of Qi Jiguang's death, it did not even give any mercy, and it was not until two years later that Qi Jiguang's eldest son, Qi Zuoguo, went to Beijing to ask for mercy, and the imperial court issued an edict to give him a funeral.

Chen Wang nodded, seeing that Chen Gong knew what he knew, his heart was also much more relaxed, and he turned to ask Wang Yuankang, who was standing on the other side.

"How's Han Zhongwei doing?"

King Qin has been gone again, and now a full year has passed.

In the past year, although through the letters transmitted, Chen Wang also had a little understanding of the situation of Han Zhongwei.

But after all, many things are not easy to write in letters, so the letters from Hanzhong record some insignificant and unimportant information, and even if it is leaked, it will not have much impact.

Therefore, Chen Wang's understanding is only superficial, and he only knows a rough idea.

Compared with the first time I met, Wang Yuankang can simply use a makeover.

Today's Wang Yuankang has a straight back, a waist knife, and a fish scale armor on the outside, and he is no longer the original only promise.

"Back to the general, now Han Zhongwei has completed the plan according to the general."

"In addition to the newly built right and rear two thousand-household offices, the other three thousand-household offices have also undergone reorganization, and all the regular soldiers who did not meet the standards have been abolished."

"There are now 22,000 military households under Weixia, of which 4,672 are in the regular army, and there are 1,838 acres and 23 acres and 6 cents of land."

Some of the fields were cleared, and some were bought during the drought and locusts, and some were taken back by various means.

After Wang Yuankang took control of Hanzhongwei, he began to reorganize the other three thousand households.

In the twelfth year, there was a summer drought in Hanzhong, locusts in autumn, and all the seedlings were exhausted, and there was a great hunger.

Because Chen Wang knew in advance, he was prepared in advance, and spent money to buy a large amount of grain and rice in Huguang and enter Hanzhong to hoard.

Coupled with the grain that had been snatched from the Black Killing Tiger Zhang Yuan and others who had been in the Hanzhong Mansion before, this part alone had more than 16,000 stones at the beginning.

Han Zhongwei naturally survived the 12-year drought and locust plague without incident.

However, although the drought locust did not affect Hanzhongwei, it did affect many ordinary people.

As a result, many people fled to Sichuan and Huguang.

Wang Yuankang also took the opportunity to expand the guard at this time and hooked the displaced people into the guard.

Being able to have a full bite to eat in times of famine is already the greatest gift, so even if they know that they want to be a military household, many people can't manage it so much.

The two guards of thousands of households in Xing'an and Chuxian are just as the main roads from Hanzhong to Sichuan and Huguang.

Guan Qilin and Du Wugang also accepted a lot of people into the guard.

Because of the sheer number of people, many of the displaced people were not even able to enter the military, but used other means to cultivate the land in the form of tenant farmers.

Anyway, now there are two thousand households, as well as Hanzhongwei, there are surplus fields for people to cultivate.

"At present, the area irrigated by waterwheels in Weizhong has reached 400 hectares, and this number is still increasing year by year, and at the same time, according to the general's order, deep wells have been dug in various places, and the ability to resist drought has been greatly improved.

"Under the general's control, there are seven medium-sized iron mines, eleven small iron mines, two medium-sized copper mines, four small copper mines, and a total of twenty-three other mines."

Wang Yuankang took out two enveloped documents from his sleeve, obviously prepared.

Chen Wang took the document from the hand of the soldier who delivered it.

The first document is about the information about the acres of land, the details of the acres under the names of the five thousand households, the situation of the harvest, the number of waterwheels, the number of wells, and even the labor costs of the waterwheels and wells are all clearly written.

The second document contains a detailed list of the mines, including the boundaries of the mines, the ores, the fineness, the monthly mining volume, the number of miners, and so on.

Most of the new mines are in Ziyang, Hung Yen and over there.

At the beginning, there were still many remnants of the rogue there in the activity, and in the name of this rogue bandit, Chen Wang directly sent troops to ransack the largest mines.

Then, naturally, they took a large amount of minerals from the hands of those gentry at a low price.

Of course, there are many stubborn mine owners among them.

However, these mine owners soon after, they all went to the Yellow Springs.

And their mines have also become the property of Chen Wang's control.

Chen Wang looked at the documents in his hand, relying on the income from the acres and mines, as well as the taxes paid by the caravans, and the income from the sale of illicit salt, even if he raised such soldiers and horses, the total income and expenditure were still positive.

Wang Yuankang's ability, Chen Wang has already seen a little.

When he supervised the construction of the new thousand households, many things were handled by Wang Yuankang.

At that time, the two thousand households were under the management of Wang Yuankang, and all affairs were in order.

At present, Wang Yuankang is in charge of the first guard, which is even better than Chen Wang expected.

Some people, many times, really just lack an opportunity to display their talents.

And Wang Yuankang is such a person.

"Very well done."

Chen Wang bowed slightly, showed a slight smile, and said approvingly.

After Chen Wang's affirmation, Wang Yuankang's face, which originally had little expression, also showed a smile.

If there was no Chen Wang, he would probably be trampled under Tan Yingfeng's feet for the rest of his life, doing some dirty work for him, being careful every day, and like this for the rest of his life.

It was Chen Wang who changed the trajectory of his life.

Now Han Zhongwei is all under Wang Yuankang's control.

And as his status rises, Wang Yuankang has come into contact with more and more things.

Through various signs, Wang Yuankang discovered many unusual secrets about Chen Wang, and slowly knew what Chen Wang wanted to do.

But he has no choice now, he can only follow Chen Wang and keep going.

But that day on the waterside of Hanshui, when Chen Wang threw an olive branch at him, he had already made a choice.

Once you board the boat, the more you come into contact with something, the harder it becomes to get off the ship.

Now next to Wang Yuankang, the guards at home are all soldiers dispatched by Hu Zhiyi.

This is naturally Chen Wang's instruction, Chen Wang does not have the habit of entrusting his wealth and life to others.

Wang Yuankang knows too many things, and there must be a means to suppress him.

(End of chapter)