When the imperial court ordered Liu Huaishen to lead his troops to enter the country, Hu Fan had already obtained Yang Anxuan's order and led his troops with Feng Chong to leave Linyi City. They gave up all the Langya County cities occupied by Yangcheng, Dong'an and others, and retreated to Northern Jizhou. In Dongguan City, Dongguan County (now the northern area of Yishui and Ju County, Linyi City, Shandong Province).
When Liu Huaishen learned that Yong's army had retreated, he ordered his troops to enter Linyi, Yangdu (the area around today's Zhuanbu Town, Yinan County, Shandong Province), and Dong'an (the area around today's Yishui County and Yiyuan County, Linyi City) to receive the soldiers and horses who returned to Hu Fan. When withdrawing, all the money, food, cloth and silk in the treasury were carried away, and the officials and people who were willing to accompany the Yong army to withdraw also left.
Liu Huaishen ordered people to transport grain from Pengcheng. He expected that although Yong's army would get out of the way, it would not necessarily allow him to reach Guanggu City smoothly. It would be a disaster to enter Northern Jizhou. Yonggong repeatedly emphasized in his posts that bandits were rife in Northern Jizhou, and he probably wanted to imitate the water bandits in Weishan Lake and use the name of bandits to deal with him.
Liu Yu sent an urgent letter from Jiankang, ordering Liu Huaishen to first station himself in Kaiyang City, Langya County, build the fortresses along the way to Guanggu City, and then slowly enter Northern Jizhou.
When Liu Yu was conquering Yan (South), he started building forts along the way from Xiapi. After more than four years, most of these forts were abandoned and collapsed. Liu Huaishen ordered people to repair the city fortress in Langya County, and then sent his servants into Dongguan County to repair the city fortress. However, they encountered thieves the next day. The guards were dispersed, the servants were kidnapped, and the fortress was destroyed.
Liu Huaishen was furious, and as the governor of Northern Jizhou, he ordered Hu Fan and Sima Guoqing to eliminate the banditry in the territory as soon as possible. From Dongguan City to Guanggu City, a fortification was to be built every twenty miles.
Hu Fan replied that March was the busy time for farming and it was not easy to recruit troops. We would wait until after the autumn harvest in July.
Liu Huaishen appealed to the imperial court and dismissed Hu Fan and Guo Qing for neglecting military aircraft. Liu Yu was awarded the title of "Commander of Chinese and Foreign Military Affairs" by the imperial court, and Hu Fan and Guo Qing were dismissed in the name of the imperial court.
Yang Anxuan was furious and ordered Hu Fan to prepare for the attack. When the new commander Zhu Ping entered the country with more than a thousand soldiers and horses, he went to Guanggu City, but was robbed and killed by thieves on the way.
After the thieves killed Zhu Ping, they did not disappear. Instead, they continued southward, destroyed all the fortresses built in Dong'an and Yangcheng, and kidnapped the officers and soldiers stationed there.
After Liu Huaishen heard the news, he fought out of Kaiyang City. The thieves fled northwest to Mengshan Mountain. Liu Huaishen did not dare to go into the mountain to search, so he had to return to the army in dismay.
Lu County and Taishan County became the fiefdoms of Song Gong Liu Yu. The officials sent by Liu Yu to the two places also disappeared after entering the country. There was a turmoil in Jiankang City. Most people thought that Yong Gong might send his troops south to compete with Song Gong for the world. .
In the east hall, seeing Liu Yu's face turned blue, Sima Dewen secretly felt relieved. Anyway, the world no longer belongs to the Sima family. Let's make trouble and fight. The more chaotic the better.
The court decided that Cai Xiu, the military minister of the capital, would take over as the Northern Jizhou Biejia. Before setting off, Cai Xiu went to the doctor to complain about his illness. Liu Yu was so angry that he dismissed him from his post on the spot and sent him home to recuperate.
Yonggong Yang Anxuan Shangshu argued for Hu Fan and others in Northern Jizhou. He believed that Hu Fan and others were not at fault. The reason for the rise of thieves in Northern Jizhou was because Liu Huaishen, the governor, acted recklessly. He requested the imperial court to demote Liu Huaishen and appoint Hu Fan as the governor of Northern Jizhou. He was the governor of the Song Dynasty and severely reprimanded Song Gong Liu Yu.
During this period, the city magistrates of Puyang and Liaocheng took more than a dozen followers to take office safely through the "bandit-infested" territory of Yanzhou and Northern Jizhou. Merchants who originally did not dare to interact with each other had the courage to walk away, but they were safe. Nothing happened, not a single robber was encountered.
As a result, the official roads in Northern Jizhou returned to their previous liveliness, and even the porters and soldiers knew that those bandits were specifically targeting the officials and soldiers of the imperial court. When Liu Yu learned about it, he was so angry that he yelled, "Young An Xuan is bullying others too much."
But knowing that Yang Anxuan would not let Liu Huaishen take office, Liu Yu had no choice but to let Liu Huaishen take the risk and fight to the death. At this time, Jiangling and Nanyizhou were still at war, and the national treasury's reserves were insufficient. Liu Yu lamented that he could not afford to fight.
Therefore, Liu Yu had no choice but to order Liu Huaishen to be stationed in Kaiyang City, Langya County as the governor of Northern Jizhou, and to collect grain and train troops in Langya, Pengcheng, and Xiapi areas in preparation for the Northern Expedition.
The political commissar Liu Muzhi, Xu Xianzhi and others, Liu Yu himself took Xie Hui, Fu Liang, Shen Tianzi and others to Jingkou. He sent Xie Hui to Guangling and Shen Tianzi to recruit troops in Sanwu. Go to supervise the construction of ships, prepare to recruit 80,000 to 100,000 new soldiers and horses within three years, and increase the number of warships by six
Hundreds of ships.
By then, the imperial court had more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, nearly 3,000 warships, and more than 200,000 county and garrison troops. Liu Yu was confident that he could fight Yang Anxuan to the death.
Liu Yu recruited troops and horses, and Yang Anxuan was not idle. He selected more than 10,000 Qin captured soldiers from the Qin army and sent them to Yanzhou and Northern Jizhou. He also captured more than 8,000 captured soldiers from Qiu Chi. They were dispersed and sent to Si, Yan, Beiji, Beiqing and other places.
After Qiuchi was destroyed, Yang Anxuan ordered Qinzhou governor Kuai En to move the people of Qiuchi to Liangzhou, and then recruited people from Liangzhou, Beiyongzhou, Sizhou, Yongzhou and other places to join Qinzhou's Yinping and Wudu counties. Each person was granted one hundred and fifty acres of land.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, each male could only be granted seventy acres of land, which doubled. Many people signed up to go, and many families divided their families and let their second sons or bastards go to Qiuchi.
Yinping and Wudu were newly returned to the territory. Yang Anxuan, a former official in Qiuchi, did not intend to stay in his post and recruited a group of officials from various states to join Qin. Anyone who wanted to serve as an official in Yinping or Wudu was transferred to an official position and promoted one level. Unexpectedly, there were so many applicants. It seemed that there were people in remote places who were willing to become officials if they had the opportunity.
After learning that Liu Yu was recruiting troops on a large scale, Yang Anxuan came to the staff headquarters to discuss countermeasures with everyone. The three houses on the east side of the lobby of Yonggong Mansion, after being connected, have forty-six official houses, which serve as the official houses of the staff department.
The staff department is set up with one person in charge to suppress evil; Zuo and You Cheng are appointed as assistants. Zhao Tian serves as the Zuo Cheng concurrently, and Gao Changqing, the former prefect of Tianshui County, serves as the You Cheng.
After retaking Tianshui County, Gao Changqing once again expressed his willingness to return to his hometown for retirement. Seeing that Gao Changqing had made up his mind, Yang Anxuan asked Gao Changqing to return to Xiangyang after distributing the food promised to the tribe in place. Cen Minghu temporarily held the post of governor of Tianshui County concurrently.
Meng Longfu received Yang Anxuan's order to transport grain from Chang'an City to Ji County. Gao Changqing was eager to return home, summoned the tribe leaders to distribute the grain, and then hurried back to Xiangyang.
Jie Bohe, a young Hun man, heard that Gao Changqing was going back to Jin and begged to come to Xiangyang with him. Gao Changqing liked Jie Bohe's cleverness very much, so he took him back to Xiangyang with him.
Except for the chief minister and the left and right ministers, everyone in the staff department is called the staff officer. Their positions are the same as those in the Yonggong Mansion and the army. Some people hold concurrent posts directly.
Yang Anxuan selected some older and experienced generals from the army to enrich his army. Many of the surrendered generals from Yao Qin, Nan Yan and even Qiao Shu also became staff officers. Under the staff, there are small officials such as Ling Shi and Shu Zuo who are in charge of specific affairs.
Yang Anxuan discussed with Wang Zhene that the size of the general staff should be expanded in the future, and generals from the army would be recruited to come to the staff for further training to enhance the command capabilities of ordinary generals. Wang Zhene wholeheartedly agreed with this suggestion. As a result, for more than ten years, many generals in the army became his students.
There are six soldiers on duty day and night in front of the courtyard gate, which is an important area for the general staff. The defense is tight. The meeting hall is about the same size as the lobby of Yonggong Mansion. There are sand tables and maps hanging in it.
There is a cupboard in the northeast corner of the house, which contains more than a dozen tea cans. This is Yang Anxuan's consideration for the staff of the staff department, most of whom are older, and allows them to drink tea while discussing matters.
The lobby seemed a bit supportive today. I heard that Yonggong was coming to discuss matters. The staff officers who had been drinking tea and relaxing in their respective official houses came one after another. Dozens of people stood up, and the spacious lobby felt a bit crowded.
First of all, Ding Quantong, the envoy of the Right Division of the Department of Commercial Affairs, reported the information about Song Gong Liu Yu's large-scale recruitment of soldiers and horses. Everyone talked about it, and most people thought that they should recruit soldiers and horses accordingly and respond as soon as possible.
Yang Anxuan stood in silence in front of the sand table. The sand table was nearly ten feet in diameter and was simply assembled into a terrain map according to the description in "The Map of the World".
At present, he has a lot of elite regular soldiers under his command. Under Meng Huaifu of the Northern Yong Army, plus Yang Anyuan from Puban, there are about 26,000 regular soldiers and 3,000 naval forces; Qinzhou Kuai En has more than 12,000 people. Zhu Chaoshi led his army back to Liangzhou. The number of soldiers and horses in Liangzhou plus Jiangzhou City was as high as 12,000. Yin Ji in Beiyizhou had more than 15,000 soldiers and horses and 5,000 naval forces under his command; Sizhou There are about 10,000 soldiers and horses and 5,000 naval forces; Yanzhou has nearly 30,000 elite soldiers and 3,000 naval forces; Northern Jizhou has 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Beiqingzhou has tens of thousands; and Yongzhou, including Dangyang Lugui’s soldiers and horses, is about There are 20,000 navy troops, and another 6,000 navy troops, so Lai Guang has nearly 150,000 elite troops under his command; there are also 22,000 navy troops, nearly 180,000 elite troops.
The total number of soldiers from various counties should have exceeded 120,000.
The number has exceeded 200,000, and the army under his control is nearly 500,000, and the number of war horses exceeds 30,000.
To feed a soldier, he needs to raise 500,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of war horses. The soldiers are paid an average monthly salary of three dan (set as thirty kilograms per stone). The food and salary needs 18 million dan; plus the food of the soldiers and horses in the army. Calculated at an average of two dan per person per month, the number of war horses increased five times, and the food required was about 16 million dan, and normal expenses required about 35 million dan.
Including the generals' food and salary, it would have increased to at least 40 million dan. Yang Anxuan treated his officers very well. In addition to the military salary, there was no shortage of vegetables and other kinds of food for daily meals. Clothing was distributed twice a year. In addition, the army's baggage and losses, etc. Converted into corn, it would cost more than 100 million dan to raise an army every year.
In the event of war, the cost of raising troops will increase by 30%. In the past few years, wars have continued, and the amount of corn required to maintain the army each year exceeds 150 million dan, and the total expenditure for rewards, pensions and other expenses is 200 million dan.
When Zhu Kun took stock of his family fortune last year, he reported that he governed a total of 482 counties and 56 counties in ten states (excluding Qinzhou), with a total of more than 9 million people (excluding nobles and officials). There are nearly 6 million Ding households and about 800,000 elderly people over 60 years old. In recent years, people's lives have become better, and the number of children born has increased sharply, with nearly 2 million preteens.
There are more than 5.75 million hectares of registered land in Yong, Si, Liang, Beiyong, Beiyi, Yan, Beiji, Beiqing and Yongzhou (Qinzhou has not yet been established) (excluding private fields under the names of noble families) ), male Ding was granted 70 acres of land, and female Ding was given half of the land. The land within three years of self-cultivation was not included, and the excess land was classified as farmland.
Zhu Kun said excitedly. In recent years, he has vigorously promoted Yang Jiali and encouraged the troops and people to open up wasteland, and it has achieved great results. The number of new fields increased by tens of thousands hectares every year. Yang Anxuan ordered that the newly cultivated fields belong to the people who cultivated them. The policy of not paying taxes within three years encouraged the people to continue to open up fields.
Yang Anxuan and the people's livelihood, the tax was very light, with only one stone per mu as land tax, theoretically he could get 57000 shi of grain, but considering factors such as disasters, he could actually get more than 500 million shi of grain.
Redundant soldiers, redundant officials, and redundant expenses have been stubborn problems in the administration of all dynasties. Yang Anxuan tried his best to reduce the number of officials under his command (1). There are about 300 officials above the ninth rank in each state, and the total number of officials under his rule is more than 4,000.
These officials need an average annual salary of two million dan. Calculated as more than 30 times that of officials, the official salary is about 150,000. The average salary is 60 dan, and the required salary is 9 million dan. In addition, officials are rewarded during festivals and annual bonuses. The food requirement is 15 million stones.
Yang Anxuan vigorously promoted Confucianism in the territory. Yang Anxuan required every county to establish a school. The number of teachers in the school was about 2,000. Each person was paid an annual salary of 80 dan, plus annual rewards, which amounted to about 1.6 million dan.
The above-mentioned supply of officials, teachers, soldiers and horses requires about 150 million dan of food.
In recent years, there has been a lot of construction. Large-scale government projects such as palaces, markets, and city wall repairs have used proceeds seized from Yao Qin and Qiao Shu. Expenditures on military equipment, research on ordnance, and relief for victims were astronomical. If money had not gradually replaced corn as payment, no amount of food would be enough.
Yang Anxuan was benevolent, and both the nobles and the people under his rule recognized his rule. The grain harvests were bumper year after year, and there were signs of low prices hurting farmers. Yang Anxuan asked the county officials to encourage the people to plant beans, vegetables, fruits, cotton and other cash crops. .
As food increased, the traditional concept of accumulating grain to prevent hunger was gradually changing. Large families began to store gold ingots, silverware, and treasures. Copper coins were often used to pay for transactions in the market. This showed that the possibility of establishing a monetary system had emerged. Yang Anxuan began to discuss and conceive the monetary framework with Wang Zhene, Xin He and others, preparing to establish a financial system based on money barter in the near future.
The sand table clearly shows that the territory under Yang Anxuan's rule is equal to that owned by Liu Yu. Yang Anxuan estimates that the number of people under Liu Yu's name is about six million. In addition, the land annexed by the clan is far greater than the land under his own rule and taxed. It is estimated to be one million hectares less than mine.
Tan Daoji under Liu Yu commanded about 10,000 troops (five thousand were left in Jiangling). Liu Daolian had about 13,000 to 4,000 troops in Jingzhou, 10,000 troops in Jingling, and troops in Jiangzhou and Yuzhou. There are about 10,000 troops in Jiankang, 10,000 troops in Jingkou, and more than 25,000 troops in Kaiyang, Pengcheng, Xiapi, Guangling and other places. There are about 90,000 elite troops in the imperial court. my own
Two-thirds, and the light cavalry is far inferior to oneself.
However, Liu Yu had more than 1,000 warships and more than 30,000 naval personnel in Xiakou, Yangkou, and Jiangling. Including the ships in Jiang, Yu, Jiankang, and Jingkou, there should be nearly 2,000 ships, and the navy numbered 50,000. People around. Although his own navy is relatively swift, the number of ships is less than a thousand, and they are scattered in the Han River, Yellow River, Wei River and other places, and is not as strong as Liu Yu.
But overall, he has surpassed Liu Yu militarily and economically, and his offensive and defensive momentum is different. Therefore, he shut out Liu Huaishen in Northern Jizhou, and Liu Yu had nothing to do.
Yang Anxuan thought that if he could gather all the soldiers and horses together, he would have a chance to annihilate Liu Yu in one fell swoop, but the (Western) Qin, Xia Kingdom, and (Northern) Wei would definitely take advantage of the opportunity.
He has worked hard for these years to allow the people under his rule to have a stable life. If he came to compete with Liu Yu for the world and the Huanghuai land returned to the tragic situation of Wuhu, it was definitely not what Yang Anxuan wanted to see.
He would rather spend a few more years accumulating, building a solid defense line against the north, and then compete with Liu Yu. Anyway, he is more than ten years younger than Liu Yu, so time is on his side.
Wang Zhen'e guessed Yang Anxuan's thoughts and said with a smile: "My lord, our military strength is better than that of Liu Yu. There is no need to increase the recruitment of troops. We only need to step up the training of the county and garrison troops and follow the steps to ensure victory." Liu Yu."
Yang Anxuan smiled and said: "It is a good idea to suppress evil step by step. However, we should not take it lightly. Order the secret guards to strengthen detectives, build fortifications on all sides, and strengthen defense. Let the retired veterans strengthen the training of county and garrison troops to fight against They can be dispatched to the battlefield in time."
"Note (1): There is information that 7,945 common people came to support one official during the Western Han Dynasty. The country's population at that time was about 50 million, and the number of officials was about 6,500. In the Tang Dynasty, 2,927 common people supported one official, and the population was more than 80 million , there are about 30,000 officials.
Historical records record that Liu Yu stipulated that the number of generals and officials in each state could not exceed 2,000, and the number of officials in Jingzhou could not exceed 10,000. The number of generals and officials in other prefectures could not exceed 500 and 5,000 respectively. people. Therefore, the author guesses that the Western Han Dynasty refers to the number of officials, 6,500, while the Liu Song refers to the total number of officials and officials. It is estimated that the ratio of officials to officials is about 1:30, so that among 10,000 people, about 34% are officials. One hundred people is reasonable.
These data are pieced together in a confusing way, and there may be omissions, so book friends are advised not to study them in detail. The author believes that the true population and farmland figures should be less than half. Historically, when Liu Yu conquered the Later Qin Dynasty, he used about 200,000 troops. Including the troops and horses stationed there, Liu Yu's troops should not exceed 400,000. Even if one man was drawn from ten men, the number of men would only be 4 million. Around this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a population of tens of millions, as high as the sky. "
