The golden drums are thundering, and the white flags are like clouds.
Today is already June 25th of the eighth year of Xuanhe. This late June of the lunar calendar is equivalent to mid-July of the Gregorian calendar in later generations, which is the hottest time of the year. At the same time, it is also a good day for the 20,000 or so soldiers of the Tiance Army to send troops to conquer Kaifeng Mansion and reopen the Song Dynasty!
Even if the sun was as hot as fire and the ground near Taiyuan Mansion was hot, it could not stop Zhao Kai from sending troops to seek revenge for his father... He was such a filial son, so he waited for someone to seek revenge for his father. He was almost dying of anxiety waiting for this day, so when he heard that Kaifeng Mansion was flooded and Zhao Ji lost contact, he couldn't wait to spread his wings and fly back to Kaifeng Mansion to fulfill his filial piety.
Well, sending it to Zhao Jifeng in a glorious manner is also an act of filial piety!
However, before sending out troops to fulfill their filial piety, there are still a lot of things to deal with in Taiyuan... Because Kaifeng Mansion was "lost" (actually it was not lost yet), King Qin's army on the south bank of the Yellow River was completely wiped out (actually it was not lost either) ), so Zhao Kai’s original plan based on Xiangzhou could not be implemented.
Because Xiangzhou is too close to Kaifeng Prefecture, without the restraints of Kaifeng Prefecture and Henan King Qin's army, Jin soldiers will arrive at Xiangzhou at any time. Therefore, it is no longer possible to base on Xiangzhou. We can only base on Taiyuan first. Although Taiyuan is located in a corner and cannot be the base of Zhao Kai for a long time, the terrain of Taiyuan is relatively easy to defend. Niangziguan and Pingding are in the east. The army has been managed as solidly as an iron barrel. The dangerous Xinkou (belonging to Xinzhou) to the north of Taiyuan, the Ninghuajun and Xianzhou mountainous areas in the upper reaches of the Fen River to the northwest, the Wutai mountainous area to the northeast, and the Luliang mountainous area to the west were all under Zhao Kai's control. Although the Fen Valley area guarded by these dangerous mountains is not very wide, it is not too small either. It is enough to temporarily house three military mansions.
Moreover, Taiyuan and neighboring Fenzhou have been ravaged by gold thieves for several months, resulting in a large amount of deserted and ownerless land... The amount is much more than the ownerless land in Xiangzhou!
Because the Jindong Route Army just passed by Xiangzhou, but the Jinxi Route Army stayed at the bottom of the Fen River Valley for four or five months, constantly burning, killing and looting. No matter whether they were gentry or poor peasants, they could not stay!
So when Zhao Kai's army arrived in Taiyuan, both sides of the originally fertile Fen River were already desolate and inhabited.
Now that everything is like this, why is Zhao Kai so polite? Three military offices and a Yingtian Division (Hedong Yingtian Division) were immediately established, spreading from north to south along the Fen River Valley. According to Zhao Kai's plan, he planned to encircle half of the cultivated land in the Fen River Valley...almost 3 million acres into three military mansions, and use them as duty fields for the Tiance Army's middle, front, and front armies!
The remaining half is controlled by the Hedong Yingtian Division. Whether it is used to collect "blood tax" or grain tax, it is decided by Liu Kai, Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Zhen, Zhe Keqiu, Liu Ziyu, Liu Xi and Zhao Zhi. Considered. And these are the officials who Zhao Kai stayed in Hedong to help him look after his house!
Among them, Liu Kai served as the pacification envoy for Hedong economic strategy, the general manager of the military and horse capital, the camp envoy, and the magistrate of Taiyuan Prefecture. He is the actual leader of Hedong!
Zhao Kai's twelfth brother Zhao Zhi served as the marshal of the Hedong army and was the nominal leader of Hedong.
Wang Xun served as the deputy marshal of the troops and horses in Hedong, and also served as the military envoy of Tiance's front army, middle army, and selected front army. He was the general manager of Tiance's armies and military offices stationed in Hedong.
Zhang Xiaochun was the transfer envoy to Hedong and also knew about Jinzhou affairs. He would station in Linfen, a relatively safe place in the southeast of Hedong, and was responsible for the civil affairs, finance, prison and other government affairs of the various states in the southeast of Hedong. Responsible for raising food and wages in the southeastern region of Henan to support Zhao Kai's operation to recapture Kaifeng Prefecture by detouring from Shaanxi.
At the same time, he also had to recruit tenants for the Yingtian Sihe Military Mansion in the Fen River Basin - the soldiers of Tiance Mansion had to follow Zhao Kai to fulfill their filial piety, and of course their land had to be cultivated by the tenants!
Moreover, time is so short now that Zhao Kai's "Caotai Court" has no time to truly hand over the land to every soldier. So I just gave the land deeds issued in the name of Tiance Mansion and registered them with the affiliated military government - these lands are all official fields, and the ownership belongs to the court. The soldiers of the government only have sixty years of use rights, and transfer is prohibited. .
And Tiance soldiers who hold land deeds will be able to receive a land rent from the military government they belong to from the year after next... If Hedong is still in Zhao Kai's hands before next autumn's harvest!
In addition, Liu Kai's son Liu Ziyu was also the military envoy of Pingding, responsible for guarding the east gate of Taiyuan Mansion.
Liu Xi, who brought Li Xiaozhong to Zhao Kai, was appointed as the magistrate of Xinzhou affairs and was responsible for guarding Xinkou, the gateway to the north of Taiyuan Prefecture.
Zhe Keqiu, the general of the Zhe family general in Shizhen Fulin, was brought to Taiyuan Mansion by his cousin Zhe Kecun - Zhe Keqiu was also a guy with a dark history, and he ran for emperor with Liu Yu. , but he was not selected, so he was not very famous, and Zhao Kai did not know that he had surrendered to the enemy.
Of course, Zhe Keqiu didn't know his "black future", he still thought he was a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty! How could he not be a loyal minister?
During the months when Taiyuan Mansion was surrounded by gold thieves, he was the person who worked most hard to rescue Taiyuan in the entire Song Dynasty!
Knowing that the gold thief was ferocious, he tried his best to gather 20,000 people to support Taiyuan, but was defeated by Yin Shuke... Although he was defeated, Zhe Keqiu did not give up hope, but led the The remaining troops went around to the south of Taiyuan Mansion, hoping to join the imperial court's reinforcements to relieve the siege of Taiyuan.
Unexpectedly, before he contacted the imperial court's reinforcements, Taiyuan Mansion had been rescued by Zhao Kai!
And the reason why he is so active in rescuing Taiyuan is, of course, loyalty first! Secondly, the Fuzhou Zhejia offended Xixia next door and suffered... a hundred years of bloody battles, the hatred is as deep as the sea!
If there was no Song Dynasty to support the Zhe family, wouldn't Xixia come to seek revenge on the Zhe family? Shouldn't the Zhe family be wiped out by Xixia?
Even if the clan is not exterminated, where will the whole family go to eat?
Therefore, among the local forces in Hedong, the Fuzhou Zhe family is very welcoming to Zhao Kai's arrival! Even if Zhao Kai separatist power in Taiyuan in the future, he can still defend the rear for the Zhe family!
Zhao Kai, of course, welcomed the Zhe family's surrender with both hands.
The Zhe family has cavalry! Among the 30,000 troops following Zhao Kai this time, there were 3,000 Zhe family cavalry led by Zhe Keqiu's son Zhe Yanwen!
Moreover, the Zhe family's territory only relies on Xixia... According to the information provided by Yelu Yujian, in the current Xixia territory, there is actually a pro-Liao group led by the Khitan people who married Princess Cheng'an of the Liao Kingdom and came to Xixia. power.
Its leader Xiao Heda also made great achievements by beheading Liu Fa in the battle of Tong'an City in Song and Xia Dynasty in the early years. Now he is an official in the capital of Xiazhou.
Yelu Yujian believed that if Zhao Kai could contact Xiao Heda in the name of resisting the Jin Dynasty and restoring the Liao Dynasty, he could at least open up channels for purchasing horses!
So at this moment, the head of the Fuzhou Zhe family rode his horse to follow General Zhao Kai of Tiance who had just left the Dongguan gate of Taiyuan. On the other side of Zhao Kai was Zhao Zhi, the Hedong military marshal.
What an honor it would be to be able to send Zhao Kai off to the expedition with Zhao Zhi!
Zhe Keqiu is so happy in his heart! The last time Huangpao came, his ancestor was far away and couldn't catch up... So for more than a hundred years, the Zhe family could only sit in the corner of the northwest and eat ashes.
But this time Huangpao Jiaren caught up... Not only did he catch up, but he also got married to the official family of the reopened Song Dynasty!
Zhe Keqiu's daughter Zhe Jinhua has been promised to marry King Shen Zhao Zhi, and she will be able to marry Zhao Zhi after she has completed her filial piety!
The Zhe family is about to become famous!
Just when Zhe Keqiu was so happy that he was about to shed tears (he had to pretend to be sad, the official family was gone), Zhao Kai had already led him and Zhao Zhi on their horses to the official road outside Dongguan City in Taiyuan. A low slope.
Standing on the slope, looking at the "white soldiers" marching out of the city, Zhao Kai asked Zhe Ke beside him: "Liu Taiwei, you are the deputy envoy of Hedong Economic Strategy and Comfort, the deputy general manager of troops and horses... . Everything in the northwest of Taiyuan will be left to you!
The military and civil affairs of the four states and three armies, including Fengzhou, Fuzhou, Linzhou, Huoshan Army, Baode Army, Kelan Army, and Lanzhou, were also in charge of the Taiwei. However, Fuzhou is still too remote and on the west bank of the Yellow River, making it difficult to control the overall situation of the east, west, and north of the river, so the town must be moved to Lanzhou as soon as possible. It is suitable for family members to live in Taiyuan Prefecture... If something goes wrong, they can still go south to avoid it! "
After giving these instructions, Zhao Kai said to Zhao Zhi again: "Brother Twelve, guard Taiyuan well... don't go anywhere, wait for Brother Yu to return in triumph!"
Zhao Zhi wiped away his tears: "Third brother, don't worry. I must have taken care of this Taiyuan mansion for third brother. No one can take it away!"
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