Chapter 244: Separation of Military and Political Affairs
At the same time as the promulgation of the Yanjing Law, Yuan Qi also made certain adjustments in terms of personnel. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info He transferred Wei Yan, who was guarding Buyeo, and Zhang Long, who was guarding Goguryeo, back to prepare for the expedition to Xinman and Thorn Tower. Deng Zhi, who guarded Goguryeo with Zhang Long, was appointed by Yuan Qi as the Taishou of Goguryeo County, overseeing the affairs of Goguryeo, and at the same time, Yuan Qi also officially appointed Chen Qun as the Taishou of Buyeo, and let him be in charge of the affairs of Buyeo and the affairs of the oil field, Yuan Qi also sent Xiahou Ruo to Buyeo, responsible for helping Chen Qun develop the oil field, and at the same time took over Wei Yan's duties, responsible for protecting all the secrets of the oil field and preventing other princes from exploring the secrets.
Cui Shou's Gwangju Pastor and Gongsun Izuun's position as the protector general remained unchanged, and they were jointly responsible for the military and political affairs of Gwangju, while the original Cui Shou's position of Governor of Bingzhou was held by Zhang Ji, who was strongly recommended by Cui Shou, and Gongsun Iriyun's original position of Liaoxi Taishou was held by his younger brother Gongsun Yue.
Accompanying Zhang Ji to Bingzhou was also Qi Tian's general Yu Gong Xing, who would take over Gao Shun's position and be responsible for commanding the sergeants of Bingzhou. As for Gao Shun, this is a soldier training everyone, and Yuan Qi has no reason to keep merging him and let Gao Shun return to Yanjing to be responsible for training sergeants. It is the place where Gao Shun can give full play to his talents.
After the personnel adjustment, Yuan Qi set up a military government in the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and its members were only a few people, namely Zhuge Liang, Jia Yuan, Xun Luo, Li Ru, Lu Su, Xu Shu and Chen Gong. While these people are responsible for their own work, they also have to assume the responsibilities of the military government. In peacetime, he was responsible for the inspection of armaments and materials, and in wartime, he was responsible for formulating battle plans, making suggestions for the Yuanqi, and requiring their consent when the army and horses were moved. For this reason, Yuan Qi deliberately asked Wang Yezi and Ma Jun to make more than 200 pieces of tiger talismans of different sizes, the tiger talisman is engraved with the word "Yan", every time the sergeant is transferred, the general with the troops must need to correspond to the tiger talisman in the hands of several people in the military government. The transfer can only be completed after that. After the transfer is completed, the general who leads the troops must immediately return to the military office to hand over the tiger talisman. After being accepted by the Military Administration. in order to deliver the tiger and the soldiers.
At the same time as the establishment of the Military Administration, Yuan Qi also established a government office, which was far away from the Military Administration, and was located on the east and west sides of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. Like the military government, there are not many members of the government government, only Yuan Ying, Yuan He, Gu Yong, Jiang Wan, Dong He, Du Yi, and Yan Yi. Yuan Ying is a little old. But he refused to obey the old man, and was busy every day, Yuan Qi simply let his father, who was quite skilled in governance, go out again to take care of government affairs for himself. As for Yuanqi's eldest brother Yuanhe. He only recently returned to Yanjing, he returned to Youzhou to help Yuan Qi at the behest of Yuan Xie, and with him, there was also Du Qi, who also entered the government office. Yuan Xie knew that Yuan Qi had just conquered Gwangju, and there must not be enough manpower on his hands, so he asked Yuan He and Du Ji to come to help Yuan Qi.
Several people in the government government, in addition to Yuan Ying, Yuan He and Du Ji, other people also have their own jobs, and even Yuan He and Du Ji were appointed by Yuan Qi as Dian Nong Zhonglang and Dian Jin Zhonglang respectively, responsible for the management of agriculture and metals respectively. As for the duties of the government government, it is responsible for coordinating the distribution of food, armaments, and other materials for the 240,000-strong army. In wartime, it is responsible for raising grain and grass, handing over the grain and grass to the general in charge of escorting, and then sending it to the battlefield on the front line.
The establishment of the military government and the government government is tantamount to putting all the military and political power into the hands of Yuan Qi alone. Through the seven people of the military government, Yuan Qi can easily control every move of the 240,000 army under his command, and through the seven people of the government office, Yuan Qi is equivalent to pinching the lifeblood of the army's grain, grass and armaments. The military government has the power to mobilize troops and horses, but it does not have soldiers and horses; the generals who directly lead the troops have soldiers and horses in their hands, but they do not have the power to mobilize them, and at the same time they have no food and grass; and the government government has money and food in their hands, but they cannot mobilize the army. They form a perfect constraint on each other, forming a chain that effectively prevents the possibility of mutiny in the future.
Under the command of Yuan Qi, all the soldiers and advisers can be said to be brave and loyal people, but Yuan Qi also knows that his power will expand sooner or later, and there will inevitably be a large number of talents to join his command.
After being busy for more than ten days in a row, the matter finally came to an end, and the next thing was to raise food and grass, build weapons, and prepare for the expedition. On this expedition, Yuan Qi could only bring 60,000 people to participate in the battle, so the quality of weapons and the sufficient preparation of grain and grass became very key factors. Yuan Qi has always been not too concerned about the matter of grain and grass, with his father and Gu Yong taking care of them, Yuan Qi is very relieved, so Yuan Qi, who is free, stepped into the prison, he wants to see if Wang Yezi and Ma Jun's master and apprentice have come up with any sophisticated weapons recently.
Since Wang Yezi and Ma Jun made improvements to weapons such as arrow towers, stone throwers, and Xizi repeaters, Yuan Qi has been entangled in various things, and he has not been a prisoner for a long time. He was looking forward to Wang Yezi's master and apprentice being able to surprise him again.
As soon as he entered the prison, Yuan Qi heard a creepy creaking sound, it turned out that it was Wang Yezi and Ma Jun with a few people, testing their newly made ballista. Yuan Qi saw that most of the entire ballista was made of wood, and a small number of core positions were made of iron, and the ballista was almost a man high, with two wings spread out, and a foot wide. At this moment, there are three javelins with the thickness of an arm's arm on the ballista, and each halberd weighs about twenty catties. Obviously, this is the ballista's ballista, and being able to fire such a heavy bolt shows how amazing the tension of the ballista is.
Harness the power of machinery. After pulling the three thick crossbow bolts onto the rifling, the squeaking sound of the tooth sore stopped abruptly, Wang Yezi adjusted the crosshair at the top of the ballista with some solemnity, and then turned back to Ma Jun and said, "It's ready to fire." When Ma Jun heard this, he immediately stomped heavily on a mechanism at the bottom of the ballista.
With Ma Jun's movements, three loud ejections sounded, and three heavy crossbow arrows shot out, directly hitting the wooden target two hundred paces away. Yuan Qi looked in the direction of the crossbow arrow, and was surprised to find that in front of the wooden man target two hundred paces away, three wooden shields the size of fists were erected. That's not all, the wooden man still has a pair of iron armor on his body. Obviously, Wang Yezi wanted to see if the power of the crossbow could effectively kill the wooden man wearing iron armor after shooting through the three-layer wooden shield.
The next moment. Yuan Qi was dumbfounded to see that the three heavy crossbow arrows pierced through the three layers of wooden shields like bamboos. Leaves three spiral-shaped wounds on the wooden shield. The iron armor on the wooden man's body, in front of the heavy crossbow arrows, was no different from the papier-mâché one, and was simply shot through by the three giant crossbows. After piercing the wooden man, the three giant crossbows continued to fly forward for more than a dozen steps, and then plunged headlong to the ground. The front half of the giant crossbow slammed into the earth, its thick tail shivering with its tail exposed.
Yuan Qi was shocked, such a powerful ballista was compared with the three-bow bed crossbow of the later Song Dynasty. In the records of history, the three-bow bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty was recognized as the most powerful bed crossbow in the world at that time, and the range could reach an astonishing 700 steps! The three-bow bed crossbow had two kinds of crossbow arrows, one was a thinner crossbow bolt, which was about the same size as the sword in people's hands, and won with speed; the other was a giant crossbow with the same standard halberd, which was about the same as the giant crossbow made by Wang Yezi, and won by strength. It is said that the latter's crossbow arrows, fired from 700 paces away, can cause a certain shock to the enemy's city wall, and are firmly inserted into the city wall like nails, laying the foundation for the Song army's foot soldiers to attack the city.
The ballista made by Wang Yezi and others is comparable to the three-bow bed crossbow in terms of power, but the range is much worse, and it can only reach about two hundred and twenty or thirty steps, which is far from being comparable to the three-bow bed crossbow. However, in terms of mobility and operability, it is much higher than the three-bow bed crossbow, Yuan Qi has read the history books of later generations, which records that the three-bow bed crossbow requires thirty people to work together to use the power of machinery to load and launch the three-bow bed crossbow, and the ballista in front of him, counting Wang Yezi and Ma Jun, the two people who commanded and did not carry out the actual operation, only ten people are enough!
"Okay! This thing is an artifact on the battlefield. Yuan Qi said with a heartfelt victory. Hearing Yuan Qi's applause, Wang Yezi and the others found out about Yuan Qi's arrival, and before, all the minds of several people were immersed in the test of the ballista and did not notice Yuan Qi.
Wang Yezi and Ma Jun hurriedly stepped forward and saluted respectfully to Yuan Qi. Since Ma Jun joined Yenching University, Yuan Qi has not spoken to him in private, and at that moment, Yuan got up and grabbed Ma Jun's arm, and asked with concern: "In Yenching, everything is still used to it?"
Ma Jun didn't expect that as Yuan Qi, he would take the initiative to ask about his living situation, and he couldn't help but feel a little flattered, and hurriedly replied: "Everything is fine, Master treats me very well, and Lao Junhou cares." Yuan Qi nodded, and then turned his head to look at Wang Yezi: "Lord Wang, look at your proficiency in the operation of the ballista, as well as the power of the ballista, presumably, this is not something you developed today?" Because Wang Yezi is holding the position of the general who will be the supervisor, and he is also a minister under Yuan Qi, so Yuan Qi will call him an adult.
Wang Yezi immediately nodded and replied: "Marquis of the Emperor, this ballista, we have already made three improvements, and it is still in the experimental stage, and we are working on the fourth improvement of it, after the improvement, we will strive to make it more powerful and have a longer range." ”
Yuan Qi asked with a smile: "After three improvements, it shows that the technology of making ballistas is quite proficient, why didn't you report this matter to a certain person?" Yuan Qi was originally just a joke, but as soon as he finished saying this sentence, ten people, including Wang Yezi and Ma Jun, looked at Yuan Qi with a resentful gaze, and Yuan Qi was furious in his heart, not knowing what he said wrong.
After a long time, Wang Yezi said faintly: "The prince and the prince have all the opportunities, how can you be in the mood to pay attention to the matter of the general prison? You haven't stepped into the general prison for almost a year. ”
Hearing Wang Yezi's words, Yuan Qi suddenly felt embarrassed, indeed, he has been running around recently, coupled with all kinds of things in Sanzhou that need to be dealt with urgently, Yuan Qi himself can't remember how long he hasn't been to be a prisoner, he only remembers the last time he came to be a prisoner, or after the improvement of the arrow tower and the stone thrower, calculate the days, I'm afraid that the one-year date that Wang Yezi said is to take care of Yuan Qi's face, and say less.