The imperial envoy arrived at the Guihua Railway Station under Qingzhong the next day. After arriving at Guihua City, I learned that Yang Fan was in Blackwater City.
However, looking at the Alxa Desert on the map, they do not have the courage to cross the desert and Gobi. They had no choice but to ask the scouts from the Beijing camp to notify Yang Fan and Zhang Shize to come back to receive the order.
It would be more than ten days later when Yang Fan and Zhang Shize rushed back.
Yang Fan and Zhang Shize received the emperor's order at the Shunyi Palace in Guihua City. In fact, there was nothing unexpected about them, it was all something they had expected.
Zhang Shize replaced Yang Fan as admiral of the military affairs of the capital.
Yang Fan was promoted to the commander of Suiyuan Province, Si Dusi. At the same time, the honorary title of Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army Commander's Office was added.
There is no mention of the title of marquis in the imperial edict.
This is tantamount to lifting Yang Fan's military power in the Beijing camp. They didn't even wait for the army to return to the capital.
Seeing that Yang Fan handed over the work to Zhang Shize very happily, he did not raise any objections. Du Xun breathed a sigh of relief.
Not a good deal this time. Uncle Dingyuan did not become Dingyuan Marquis, and it was really not good-looking to ask him to hand over military power here.
The emperor didn't even let him lead his troops back to the capital to hand over the affairs. This made Du Xun feel a little embarrassed.
It can be seen that the emperor was very anxious about being away from Beijing for a long time.
Everyone could see that after this time, it was impossible for the emperor to hand over the military power of the Beijing camp again.
Yang Fan handed over the work, said goodbye and left first.
Now, Zhang Shize has taken over. The things here have nothing to do with him. Let Zhang Shize come forward to entertain the imperial envoys.
Guihua City is too small, with a circumference of only two miles. That is a small town five hundred meters square. In addition to the Shunyi Palace, there are two Lama temples in the city. The place is cramped and there really isn’t much space to build.
Since Suiyuan was established as a province, the administrative seat was Guihua City.
Then in this small town, at least the governor's office and the Yamen of the third division must be built. The chief envoy, the administrative envoy, and the capital commander all have an independent set of subordinate officials. Guihua City is so small that it really can’t be moved around.
Yang Fan originally didn't want to deal with those civil servants. He simply placed his Suiyuan Commandery Division near the Guihua Railway Station on the south bank of the Dahei River.
Yang Fan plans to build another new city on the south bank of the Dahei River. If you don't mix with them, it won't be convenient to do anything by yourself.
At this time, a three-story, zigzag-shaped cement and bluestone building had been built opposite the station square. As his temporary office and residence. The Jia Ding Regiment also has a battalion of cavalry stationed here.
After Yang Fan captured the Tumut and Ordos tribes, he basically got rid of all the Mongolian herders.
The Duolun Grassland side needs more manpower.
Since settlement and pasture cultivation began, the number of livestock carried has increased significantly. These four to five million people are only enough to fully develop the Duolun Grassland.
This resulted in the Ordos Plateau and Qiantai becoming a no man's land. Except for a few cities with limited military inns, there are basically few people.
The population of Alxa was concentrated by Yang Fan into Heishui City and Juyan City. Alxa has also become a wasteland.
The front and rear sets have great development value. The land here is fertile, but the climate has been too cold in recent years and the frost-free period has been too short. It snowed before the crops matured.
But Yang Fan has short-growing corn in his hands, and he can use steam engines to extract groundwater or divert water from the Yellow River for irrigation. Agriculture can be developed here.
Now the northwest is in chaos, with refugees everywhere. Yang Fan plans to introduce refugees to cultivate the front and back sets. Yang Fan had no intention of giving up these two undeveloped sacred lands. This will become Yang Fan's second base in Saibei besides Duolun Grassland.
Yang Fan was in the study, looking at the front and back maps that had been surveyed by the scouts in the past few days. Consider how to develop it further. At this time, Zhang Geda came in and reported that Zhang Daojun came to see the master.
Yang Fan was stunned for a moment. Although he and Zhang Daojun both had official positions in Jinyiwei, they really had nothing in common.
Zhang Daojun and Luo Yangxing are close, but Yang Fan and Luo Yangxing are somewhat at odds with each other. Luo Yangxing and Yang Fan are always yin and yang. Therefore, Yang Fan and Zhang Daojun had little contact.
This time he was responsible for protecting the imperial envoy Tuan'er who came to announce the decree, and Yang Fan just gave him the usual courtesy.
Although Yang Fan had some personal relationships with his grandfather Zhang Wudian, his mother Huo Shi, and his sister Zhang Fengyi. However, in official circles, things are different. He and Zhang Daojun are not very familiar, they are just acquaintances.
Zhang Daojun is in charge of the health center in Jinyiwei. There are sixteen guardhouses in Jinyiwei, and he is in charge of some of them. But it is Beizhen Fusi who is engaged in spy work, and Nanzhen Fusi is in charge of internal discipline. It has nothing to do with him.
Therefore, it has nothing to do with military, intelligence and other matters. It has nothing to do with this war.
Yang Fan didn't know what he was looking for for a while. Somewhat confusing.
But Yang Fan still asked Zhang Geda to invite him in.
"Uncle Dingyuan, your place is much more comfortable than Guihua City. Not only is the place spacious, the scenery is also excellent. Haha." Zhang Daojun walked in with a smile.
Yang Fan's study is on the third floor, and the floor-to-ceiling windows can see the Dahei River across from the station. The view is very broad. The grasslands in Hebei are full of green and have an unobstructed view.
The splendid towers of Guihua City in the distance and the Daqingshan Mountain behind form a beautiful picture.
Zhang Geda and several attendants in the room saw that the master had something to discuss, so they all left and closed the door.
Yang Fan smiled and said: "Guihua City is too small, and there is no place to build an yamen. We simply moved it here at the station. Brother Zhang came to me, couldn't he come to visit my Dusi Yamen?"
Zhang Daojun smiled and said: "I received a letter from Xiaoqing, saying that Uncle Dingyuan has allocated five hundred fine war horses to my Zhang family. Daojun thanked Uncle Dingyuan first."
Yang Fan waved his hand indifferently and said: "Mr. Zhang and your Majesty escorted the grain and grass for thousands of miles, and they worked hard all the way. It's just a trivial matter for me to move some horses, and it's not worth mentioning."
Yang Fan invited him to sit down, then found tea leaves from the cabinet and made him a cup of Longjing tea.
Zhang Daojun smelled it and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that in this land in the north of the Great Wall, it is really not easy to drink Longjing before the rain."
Yang Fan smiled and said nothing, waiting for him to explain his intention.
Zhang Daojun would never come to his place to chat. Yang Fan and Luo Yangxing are not dealing with each other, and Zhang Daojun still has to live in Jinyiwei. There is no need to come to make friends with his boss's enemies and cause trouble for himself.
Zhang Daojun put down his tea cup and said, "Uncle Dingyuan, you know that there are traitorous ministers in the court. Someone said something bad about you somewhere, Your Majesty."
When Yang Fan heard this, he sat up straight and said, "This is actually happening. I don't know who said bad things about me and what bad things they said."
"Uncle Dingyuan doesn't know who you have offended. If you hadn't suddenly shown off your power this time, you would have defeated the Oirat people who were six times your size. All the conspiracies disappeared like boiling water and snow. . I’m afraid that this time, I will be punished by the treacherous officials.”
Yang Fan smiled bitterly and said: "It's impossible to hang around in the court without offending others. However, those in the cabinet are not something to be afraid of."
Zhang Daojun smiled and said: "Xiong Tingbi thought so too back then."
Yang Fan's pupils shrank, and alarm bells rang in his heart, it turned out to be him.
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