Chapter Fifty-Nine: Reward
Liang Yun was soon fooled and lame by Chu Yun's acting skills comparable to Sima Yi, he finished reading the will, and even disregarded his position for Chu Yun, he reassured Chu Yun that after he went back, he would definitely tell the court about Chu Yun's loyalty and merits, and then also conveyed their difficulties to the court, and now Shangdang County has attracted the firepower of the Huns, and Chang'an has instead gained respite, he thinks that Chu Yun will be rewarded both publicly and privately. Wang Lian personally sent Liang Yun to the border of Shangdang County, watching Liang Yun leave, neither Chu Yun nor the officials of Shangdang County took it to heart, Liang Yun is a young man who is still enthusiastic, so Chu Yun didn't give him any benefits, and he didn't care. However, Chu Yun still asked him to bring the emperor some old things from the Luoyang Palace, and by the way, to express his loyalty.
The arrival of Liang Yun is just a trivial matter, and the Iron Blood Army will next carry out a major military reform, and after the military reform, a series of expansion actions will be carried out. Although the imperial court did not give Chu Yun this right, Chu Yun's strength has increased greatly now, although the territory is small, but his strength is no less than that of ordinary princes.
However, before the reform, everyone watched a good show first, Chu Yun's brother-in-law Cui Zhen knelt down to apologize to Liu Bi and Fang Qing in front of almost all the civil and military generals, Fang Qing's temper didn't matter, but Liu Bi held his breath, but seeing Cui Zhen so sincere, he forgave Cui Zhen, and he also knew that this was all done by Chu Yun to Cui Zhen, otherwise with this kid's character, he would never pull down his son to apologize to himself, Liu Bi's loyalty to Chu Yun was greatly enhanced. The rest of the military attachés were also very relieved to see this scene, which meant that Chu Yun was disciplined in doing things, and would not blindly favor cronyism, and they were more energetic to follow Chu Yun.
Chu Yun's official position has not been promoted, but has declined, and his position as the deputy governor of the state is gone, he is now a general of Pokou, supervising the military of Xihe County of Shangdang County, the county guard of Shangdang County and the county guard of Xihe County, and the lieutenant of Qingche, except for the position of the county guard, the rest are useless, and now the official position is flying all over the sky, compared to General Chu Yun Pokou, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Jin Dynasty, this general has no qualifications to fight independently, and many Wenchen have a general title, which is really ridiculous.
But the imperial court does not give promotions, but Chu Yun cannot help but give them promotions, Chu Yun created a military merit medal system, awarded according to the size of the merit, which is not only glory, but also related to actual benefits, according to different levels of military merit medals, soldiers can receive money and grain and even exchange land, for the Chinese, nothing is as important as their own piece of land, which greatly enhances the fighting desire of the iron-blooded army.
Moreover, Chu Yun has perfected the bereavement system, and the soldiers who died in battle have a series of subsidies, which is enough to make the families of the dead soldiers worry-free after they die. And the disabled soldiers, Chu Yun will also take care of them, some are arranged to enter the yamen, some are awarded to the village elders, manage a village, and those who are too seriously injured, Chu Yun also gives money and food every month. This kind of system is even more unprecedented, making every Iron Blood Army soldier grateful to Chu Yun.
In terms of the civil system, Chu Yun cannot change it casually, but in each township, Chu Yun has set up government agencies, and the imperial power does not go to the countryside has become a thing of the past. Because of the decentralization of the township elder system, the county order can no longer be called Baili Hou, and the era of their monopoly of power has disappeared, which also reduces corruption.
And each village has also established village elders, and their responsibilities are not much different from those of modern village chiefs, except that Chu Yun ordered that adult males must split up after reaching the age of twenty and marrying wives, Chu Yun knew the danger of clan power.
The Iron Blood Army is now strong and can be expanded at any time, but Chu Yun was not in a hurry to expand the army, he first came to a large-scale restructuring.
The infantry continued to retain the brigade system, with more than 35,000 infantry under Chu Yun, and Chu Yun was divided into seven brigades, namely the first infantry brigade, the second infantry brigade, and so on. And expand the reserve brigade to 15,000 people, which means that Chu Yun can expand nearly 50,000 infantry at any time.
The cavalry was maintained at about 11,000 people, Chu Yun canceled the structure of the wartime forward, left army, right army, and middle army, and also formed a cavalry brigade, among which the Chinese army that followed Chu Yun was changed to the iron-blooded cavalry and the only cavalry unit with a special name, which became a model for all armies, and the level was also upgraded from the brigade level to the army, with Chu Yun personally serving as the military seat, and Guo Yong being responsible for the daily work of the deputy military seat, with 5,000 people, becoming a veritable Praetorian Guard of the entire iron-blooded army. In the Jin Dynasty, there were about 200 people in the team, with a "team master"; several teams were combined into a building, and a "building master" was set up; and generally three buildings were combined into an army, and the first army was about 3,000 people.
Of the remaining 6,000 people, Chu Yun took 2,000 people as a brigade and established three cavalry brigades, namely the 1st Cavalry Brigade, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade. And a new cavalry reserve was also established, with as many as 7,000 personnel in the reserve, which showed Chu Yun's attitude, once the cavalry reserve was trained, then they would have a few more cavalry brigades at any time.
Chu Yun ordered all brigade-level troops to establish a praise and painting system, that is, equivalent to the political commissar of later generations, and their main work was not related to military affairs, but ideological work and all logistical sundries. There are pros and cons to the praise painting system, the advantage is that it can make the army more loyal to Chu Yun, and the disadvantage is that once the brigade commander and the praise painting have a contradiction, it will have an impact on combat effectiveness, but Chu Yun stipulates that the brigade commander is in charge of the battle, and the praise and painting are in charge of life, and the two are separated, and there are far fewer contradictions.
Another brigade has set up a deputy brigade commander and a different number of marching staff officers, which was established by Chu Yun with reference to the staff officer system, after all, one person is short of wisdom, and only by working together can it be regarded as a no-miss. These people are only helping the brigade commander to give advice, and will not weaken the authority of the brigade commander. In peacetime, the deputy brigade commander is only equivalent to the deputy general, once the brigade commander is killed, then he can take over the military power in wartime, so that the whole army will not be in chaos as soon as the leader dies.
Of course, the names of these brigade commanders are also Chu Yun's helpless choice for not appointing his subordinates, and Chu Yun also wants them to be called captains or something, but he doesn't have this power.
In addition, Chu Yun's trip to Luoyang not only got a lot of materials, but also brought a lot of children from the family, Chu Yun did a lot of harm to their families, Chu Yun couldn't slaughter them all, he could only think about giving them all to Liu Kun, no matter how Liu Kun was also his boss, it could be regarded as helping himself, since Liu Kun was willing to recruit these hot potatoes, Chu Yun couldn't wait to send them all over. By the way, he sent Liu Kun a large number of cultural treasures and some food weapons, and Qian Chuyun gave a lot of money without mercy, but the most important food weapons in the troubled times, money and money cannot be eaten.
However, Chu Yun also found some talents from these guys, these people can't be entrusted with important tasks when they first come, they can only take a look first, Chu Yun has Mo Han and other civil servants to assist, not to mention governing a county, it is more than enough to govern a state, he is still mainly military.
Chu Yun carefully considered the generals under him, some generals are fully capable of leading an army alone, but some abilities have reached the limit, such as Fang Dashan, although he is loyal and follows him very early, but his ability is to be able to lead thousands of people to the top, but Guo Shuzi gradually has the talent of a general, and the cavalry he led has broken through a total of seven county towns, and the orderly arrangement of the relocation really makes Chu Yun impressed. And Liu Bi is also very good, he also led his cavalry to break through five county seats, if it weren't for the direction he went to so many cities, I believe he would not be worse than Guo Shuzi.
Chu Yun let the two of them be alone, the loyalty of these two people is unquestionable for the time being, and their families are under their noses, and they are not afraid of them messing around, even if they want to mess around, they have to ask their subordinates if they agree. Chu Yun is ready to let the calm Guo Shuzi be stationed in Pingjin Valley, which is the direction of the most common attack of the Huns, Liu Bi has been imprisoned by Cui Zhen, Chu Yun is not ready to let him go here, and Liu Bi Chu Yun is ready to send him to Xihe County again, and build Lishi City completely, he has been there once, and there should be no problem with being familiar with the road. In addition, Xihe County has many other cities in addition to Shicheng, which need to be recovered by Liu Bi one by one. Chu Yun's injury is usually not recoverable, unless he eats the Divine Stone obtained from Gongshi Leopard to recover his internal strength, but Chu Yun always feels that there is something wrong with the Divine Stone, so he has not taken it.
In addition, Zhou Bin did a very good job in the Jin Dynasty, not only defending Liu Wei's attack, but also responding to Chu Yun and arranging Chu Yun's captive population was also orderly, but Chu Yun had not seen his offensive ability, but in order to balance the situation in the army, Chu Yun was also ready to promote him to a commander.
After many discussions with his subordinates, Chu Yun decided on the positions of several brigade commanders under him.
The commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade is Zhou Bin, which is unacceptable. His 1st Infantry Brigade was stationed in Jincheng, Gaodu County, and together with the 5th Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, he defended the southern gate of Shangdang County, and with an army of 12,000 plus steep checkpoints and towering cities, Chu Yun never believed that the Huns would be able to break through.
Liu Hai, the brigade commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, his task is still to prevent the Huns from attacking Shangdang County from the west side of Shangdang County, these places are dangerous, as long as they do not make a big mistake, then it is impossible to be broken by the Huns. In the process of Chu Yun breaking through the two counties and the Huns retaliating against Shangdang County, the Huns only tried to attack twice and then gave up, which shows how stable it is.
The brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade was originally Cui Zhen, but was removed by Chu Yun, who appointed Wang Dao as the brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and transferred the 3rd Infantry Brigade to Pingjin Valley, because the 5th Infantry Brigade has been completely formed after many major battles, and it has also been recognized by everyone. The 5th Infantry Brigade has become a strong army second only to the 1st Infantry Brigade and the 2nd Infantry Brigade, and Wang Dao has made great contributions, so now the 3rd Infantry Brigade has been handed over to Wang Dao and continues to defend in Pingjin Valley.
The brigade commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade is still Fang Ai, the son of the Fang family, his performance is decent, mainly because he has not experienced a big war, this time Chu Yun mobilized the Fourth Infantry Brigade to Xihe County, and asked Liu Bi to take the Fourth Infantry Brigade to fight in Xihe County, Chu Yun wants to see if Fang Ai is given a chance, and whether Fang Ai can fight in the end.
After Wang Dao, the brigade commander of the Fifth Infantry Brigade, stepped down, Chu Yun handed over to Zhao Hu, who was very trusted, that is, with his earliest little tiger, the location where they were stationed surprised everyone, he was stationed in Fukou of Taihang Eight Paths, which is next to Yizhou, Chu Yun stationed such a strong army here, and Shi Le basically occupied Yizhou, Liu Yan was dead in this piece, but I don't know if Chu Yun wanted to help Liu Yan, or stabbed him in the back to expand his power to Yizhou.
The brigade commander of the Sixth Infantry Brigade is the gatekeeper of the original eldest son city, this guy has achieved outstanding results in commanding the reserves, he has been forced to go to the battlefield many times but has been forced down by Chu Yun, and this time he was finally put into the combat unit by Chu Yun. The 6th Infantry Brigade was stationed in Pingjingu and was under the command of Guo Shuzi. Chu Yun still put 10,000 infantry in Pingjin Valley, it is really too important here, once lost, then the Huns will not only be able to kill the hinterland of Bingzhou, but also cut Xihe County and Shangdang County in half.
Chu Yun, the brigade commander of the Seventh Infantry Brigade, arranged for Niu Gensheng to take over and garrison Changzicheng, Lao Niu was old, he was originally the brigade commander of the infantry reserve brigade, but he was seriously ill, and he had to transfer Fang Yong to the brigade commander of the infantry reserve brigade, and now he has become the brigade commander of the official brigade. Niu Gensheng Chu Yun was not ready to let him rest, and served as the brigade commander of the Seventh Infantry Brigade, after all, he was a person that Chu Yun trusted very much, and the eldest son city must also put a henchman army.
The brigade commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, served by Fang Dashan, he has 2,000 people, he is the most elite cavalry in addition to the Iron Cavalry, and he is also Chu Yun's old subordinate, they think that the Iron Cavalry is nothing great, they just happen to follow Chu Yun's side, they are extremely strong in combat, and they are eager to fight like the Qin army. Chu Yun handed over the 6,000 troops of the 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 4th Infantry Brigade to Liu Bi, and this time they were all the troops who completely conquered Xihe County.
The brigade commander of the Second Cavalry Brigade is a Wuhuan man named Lu Zhong, this guy is not from the Wuhuan tribe conquered by Chu Yun, but he was found through recruitment after coming to Shangdang County, and his surname is Lu because Chu Yun gave him a name. He has made many military exploits over the years, especially for the cavalry has his own opinions, in the process of Liu Bi's attack on Lishicheng and Chu Yun's attack on Luoyang County, the most famous one is in the process of recovering Henan County, he as Guo Xuanzi's forward officer, with more than 200 people deceived the door of Henan County, in the encounter of more than 1,500 Xiongnu troops resistance, he actually relied on flexible command, defeated the opponent in the street battle, captured all the officials of Henan County with his own strength to turn the tide of the war. He is also one of the few iron-blooded military silver military medals awarded by Chu Yun, Chu Yun's military merit medal system is temporarily divided into four levels of gold, silver, bronze and iron, and there is no gold medal, which shows the gold content of the silver medal. The 2nd Cavalry Brigade was also ordered to be stationed in Fukou, plus the 5th Infantry Brigade with strong combat effectiveness, no one knew what Chu Yun was doing with so many troops here.
The brigade commander of the third cavalry brigade is the only remaining living owner of the iron-blooded cavalry when Chu Yun fought the public leopard, this one is also an old man who has followed Chu Yun since the period of the iron-blooded castle, he is in his Chinese New Year's Eve this year, with a calm personality, and his daughter-in-law is the daughter of the iron pillar who betrayed Chu Yun back then, because everyone in this iron-blooded army advised him not to have a future for a woman. But Huang Cun insisted on his opinion, and personally found Chu Yun and asked Chu Yun to call the shots. Chu Yun didn't want to, but after thinking about it, he was so loyal to a woman, so he must also be loyal to himself, so he personally decided to let them get married. Over the years, a few old men of the Iron and Blood Army were not at ease with him, so they suppressed him a lot, but this time Chu Yunli appointed him as the brigade commander despite public opinion.
In addition, the brigade commander of the infantry reserve brigade, Chu Yun, appointed Cui Zhen to serve, he was still very emotional, after all, a main infantry brigade was transferred to a reserve brigade, but his sister persuaded him many times, and even his teacher Zhang Tong directly told him: He has 15,000 people under his command, and he can expand three brigades at any time, he made a big mistake this time, and he was silent for a while, and when the reserve army is formed, he will be reinstated. After Cui Zhen heard this, he suddenly realized, he calmed down, worked hard, and went to learn from Niu Gensheng and Fang Yong of the original reserve many times, Chu Yun also nodded when he saw him like this, he was still young, and it was nothing to suffer a little setback.
And Chu Yun of the Cavalry Reserve Brigade appointed Mao Qing as the poster, and Mao Qing stepped down as the governor of Shangdang County and the head of Shangdang Horse Farm, and officially transferred to the army, which was also his dream. Chu Yun saw Mao Qing a few times, Mao Qing is the head of the Mao family, and although he is a little irritable, he also has many advantages. Chu Yun was even ready to make Mao Qing the commander of the official cavalry brigade in the future, but he just had to see his performance. Shangdang Racecourse was already on the right track, in order to avoid suspicion, he wanted to hand over Shangdang Racecourse to Chu Yun's people, but Chu Yun let the Mao family continue to manage the racecourse, which moved this man in his forties.
Chu Yun appointed Guo Shuzi, who was stationed in Pingjingu, Liu Bi, who was ordered to capture Xihe County, and Zhou Bin, who was stationed in the southern defense line of Shangdang County, as the commander of the army, and the commanders of each brigade were uniformly promoted to captains, and the reserves were promoted to deputy captains. Chu Yun himself is only a miscellaneous general, so he can only be named a captain, can he be named a general? Isn't that a mess.
However, just when the brigade commanders were about to take up their posts, the second reward of the imperial court finally came. In fact, the people of Shangdang County were very angry about the first appointment of Chang'an, Chu Yun made a great contribution, and even Fang Dashan and other bastards wanted to kill the envoy of the imperial court, but they were forced down by Chu Yun. Even the civil ministers were also very unhappy, for example, Wang Lian and Fang Qing were originally the left and right Sima of the Governor's Mansion, but they lost the right to open the mansion, and their official positions continued, and by the way, almost all civil officials except Mo Han were demoted, who is going to reason with this.
However, this time the messenger brought good news, the one who came to announce the decree turned out to be a eunuch, Chu Yuncai didn't care who came, he continued to pretend to be sick, and read the holy decree before the bed, he was named the deputy governor of the state, holding the festival, opening the mansion, protecting the state, the military of Sili Prefecture, the general of the conquest, the county guard of Shangdang County and the county guard of Xihe County, the Wu'an Township Wait, and the scattered cavalry. This time, the reward is okay, Chu Yun not only has the right to open the mansion, but also can appoint some official positions because of the festival, which can be regarded as an explanation for his subordinates, and the general has the right to fight, not to mention that Chu Yun was also made a marquis, although it is rotten on the street, it is also the lowest marquis, but it is always happy.
It's just that when Chu Yun's wife was rewarded as Mrs. Sipin in the holy decree, everyone almost couldn't help laughing, Chu Yun is still unmarried, where is the wife, the eunuch who came to announce the decree was also a little speechless, and he was also surprised by Chu Yun's youth. Cui Ning is not Chu Yun's wife, Chu Yun will never marry her as his wife, otherwise she will become a laughing stock, her life experience can be Chu Yun's wife, but she is a second marriage, and she has also married Hu Ren, which is absolutely not good.
Chu Yun will not look down on eunuchs, but these people seem to be more greedy for money than ordinary people, Chu Yun has a lot of money, and he bought this person with a large box of treasures, he passed on the situation of the small court in Chang'an to Chu Yun meticulously, and he almost told Chu Yun about the emperor's sex life in detail, and Chu Yun also knew a lot about the situation in Chang'an. Now Chang'an is not as good as his eldest son city, Chu Yun asked him to go back and say more good things about himself, this eunuch named Cao Miao agreed, and then returned with the gift he gave to the emperor.
Chu Yun's broken general is only five grades, but Liu Xiuke, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, did it, and it can be regarded as not letting the predecessors specialize in beauty. He immediately ordered Liu Bi, Guo Shuzi, and Zhou Bin to be generals, although they were the last generals, they were also generals. In addition, all the brigade commanders were named captains, the commanders of the main brigades were named Zhenwei lieutenants from the sixth grade, and the brigade commanders of the two reserve brigades were awarded the deputy lieutenants of Zhenwei from the sixth grade.
After the reward was completed, Chu Yun personally went out of the city to send Liu Bi to lead the army to the expedition, and also sent the brigade commanders back to the army by the way, and the pace of expansion of the iron-blooded army slowly unfolded.