In the Imperial City of Shuntian Prefecture in Beijing, in the Chongzheng Hall, a military meeting was going on.
Participating in this military meeting were besides Xiang Ke, the general manager of the camp, and Wu Lin, who joined the army, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, the commanders-in-chief of the northern and southern routes, and Huang Wuji and He Ji, the deputy commanders, as well as Liu Ziyu, the newly-appointed camp envoy of Beijing Jilu, and Beijing Jilu. Liu Yan, the pacifying envoy of Lu, Ma Kuo, the pacifying envoy of Hebei Road Yingtian, He Moss, the pacifying envoy of Hebei Road, Zhang Xiaochun, the pacifying envoy of Datong Road, Zhang Jun, the pacifying envoy of Datong Road, and Wang Xiaode, the Fusi envoy of Beizhen (the Zhenfusi in Luoyang is now renamed Nanzhen Fu Si), Chen Dong, the Imperial Academy's academician, and several Hanlin academicians who were responsible for recording and drafting the imperial edict.
Although Zhao Kai seems to have obtained Li Zicheng's script, his ruling group is much more sophisticated and ruthless than a group of bandits who have only risen to power a few years ago. Moreover, his Fubing Group has a relatively high degree of feudalization, and has formed a system that relies on military merit and is rooted in the land.
Therefore, the Zhao Kai Group, which entered Beijing, did not care too much about floating wealth, but instead focused on land that can generate long-term profits and is conducive to taking root.
To seize land, of course, the first step is to establish local political power and suppress the traitor armed forces who dare to resist the heavenly soldiers.
Therefore, these days, Zhao Kai's main energy is focused on establishing local political power on Beijing Ji Road, Datong Road, and Hebei Road.
This is a very troublesome and delicate job. It is not just about grabbing a large number of people and then randomly appointing some surrendered traitors as officials.
A large number of capable and relatively reliable local officials must be sent, and the army must also be dispatched. The governor of Beizhen Fusi must also go with them.
When you get to the local area, you can't kill them indiscriminately. You have to pull one faction, suppress another faction, and kill another faction. Only in this way can you effectively establish a local government loyal to Zhao Kai, an official.
Only with local political power can we further inspect the land and open military offices. With the military government, we can recruit a group of local servicemen in Hebei (referring to the newly acquired territory of Hebei), Beijing Ji, and Datong... This is equivalent to opening up Hebei, Beijing Ji, and Datong. The ascending passage for earth warriors.
Of course, these things are easy to say, but very troublesome to do. Hebei Road seems to be easier to find, after all, there are many returning groups!
But Beijing Ji Road and Datong Road were more difficult to organize. Beijing Ji Road had been harmed twice by the Song Dynasty. It goes without saying how popular people were. Moreover, many powerful children of Beijing Ji Road followed the Jin people to the outside of the Great Wall.
Similarly, the people on Zhao Kai's side would not trust the powerful people in Jilu, Beijing... During the Xuanhe Northern Expedition, they helped Yelu Dashi to violently defeat the Song army. Later, during the Xuanhe crisis, they turned against each other and paid gold to return the favor. He became the vanguard of the Jin army's southern invasion.
The territory occupied by Datong Road is roughly the south of Xijing Road in the Liao Dynasty. In that area, Hu and Han people live together, and there are a lot of Khitans... These are not people who farm the land honestly, but Armed nomadic tribes.
No matter the Khitans who once took refuge with the Jin Kingdom or the Khitans who have always insisted on resisting the Jin Kingdom, they will not willingly give up their territory on Datong Road!
In addition, the Zhao Kai Group also likes land too much - they are just a bunch of country warriors who guard the land and collect rent!
This characteristic also determines that the contradiction between Zhao Kai and the local wealthy families in Beijing Ji and Datong is irreconcilable.
Therefore, to completely swallow up Beijing Ji Road and Datong Road, a public security war is inevitable!
In Zhao Kai's original plan, in order to prevent the traitors in Beijing Jilu from colluding with the Jin Kingdom to cause rebellion, the Northern Expeditionary Army would immediately launch an eastern expedition to seize Pingzhou, Pingzhou, Luanzhou, and captured Yuguan and the entrances of Yanshan in Ping, Ji, and Shunzhou, and built pass fortresses to block traffic. Then we will fight behind closed doors against the traitorous landlords in Ji Road, Beijing!
But with Zhao Gou making such a fuss on Jingdong Road, and Zhao Kai rushing outside first, and then closing the door, his plan to fight the landlord later would not work.
Because even if he can close the Yuguan and Yanshan entrances, he can't separate Jingdong Road and Hebei Road!
There is no geographical dividing line between these two places, only an administrative dividing line!
Moreover, Zhao Gou represents the traditional Zhao-Song line of "ruling the world together with literati"... In a sense, Zhao Gou represents the true Song Dynasty that scholars all over the world yearn for!
In this regard, not only Zhao Kai, the leader of the "country warrior", can't compare, but Zhao Huan, the "pirate leader" of Jinling Mansion, can't compare either.
When Zhao Huan first started to "abolish military force", the scribes in the southeast were still very happy, thinking that they could control everything. But after following the path of "abolition of military force" for several years, they discovered that something was wrong...because these are troubled times! Being in control of everything means taking on the responsibility of protecting the home and the country, otherwise the gold thieves will come to steal money and women, and Zhao Kai will come to fight against the rich to share the land!
Therefore, the Jinling court had to select a group of "scribes" who were better at fighting as officials. After they came up, this group of people became even more domineering than the original warriors, and they quickly suppressed the traditional civil servants. The value of Wen Jinshi was rapidly depreciating, while the value of Wu Jinshi was rapidly appreciating. By the time of the imperial examination competition in the eighth year of Jingkang, the number of Wen Jinshi admitted also began to drop significantly - because some Wu Jinshi who entered the official position in the second year of Jingkang began to be transferred to local officials. He snatched away 1,780 state and county officials, making Wen Jinshi's future even more bleak.
Moreover, these Jinling Wu Jinshi people had to work hard to make money in order to run the new army and navy. Therefore, the taxes of the Jinling court became more and more heavy, and it became more and more difficult for those "unofficial officials" to evade taxes. .
Therefore, after Zhao Gou was born under the banner of "ruling the world with the scribes", not only the scribes in Hebei would yearn for Lin'an, but even the scribes in the southeast might also cheer for Zhao Gou!
Therefore, this Zhao Gou...is really annoying!
"Guan, please give me three troops, and I promise to capture King Kanggou for you within three months!"
The one who is going to search the mountains and seas to capture Zhao Gou is of course Yue Fei!
"Guan Jia, six of the twelve armies currently affiliated with the camp have been split up and stationed in various places. Only six armies are still available around Beijing at any time. If three of them are separated to fight against Jingdong... If the gold thieves from Yuguan come in large numbers, there will only be three armies of about 60,000 people available for camp."
The commander-in-chief of the camp put forward different opinions to Kema, "My brother believes that we should concentrate our forces to attack Yuguan first... Once the enemy at Yuguan is defeated, the enemy at Jingdong will be vulnerable!"
Han Shizhong shook his head and said, "There are as many as 200,000 enemies in Yuguan. They have already entrenched themselves in a dangerous position and are well-fortified. They also have sufficient troops and food supplies. I am afraid that it will be difficult to capture them in the short term. However, our army is not as large as the Golden Thieves, and our soldiers and food supplies are not as good as that of the Golden Thieves. There is no geographical advantage to rely on, and only the power of firearms can defeat the enemy. However, if the thieves take advantage of the danger and defend, it will be enough to offset the power of our army's firearms. If the battle lasts for a long time, I am afraid that our army will be defeated because of the exhaustion of military supplies.
In addition, the Bohai Sea waterway now belongs to the thieves and not to me. If the standoff between Yuguan and Yuguan continues, and the Golden Thief sends an elite force by sea to Beiqinghe (Jingdong Road), and joins forces with Zhao Gou to attack Hebei Road, will our army still be undefeated? "
Han Shizhong is right!
The Golden Thieves had a navy. Although it was not as good as the Southern Song Dynasty, it was much stronger than the landlocked Northern Song Dynasty!
Zhao Kai was reminded by Han Shizhong and found that his naval construction was lagging behind.
Zhang Jun, the consolation officer of Datong Road, frowned and said, "It's not the gold thieves, it's not the Kang thieves... Then who should we fight?"
yes! Who should I fight next?
Zhao Kai glanced around the hall and asked everyone for advice.
"Officials," Liu Ziyu, the envoy of the Beijing Jilu camp, took over the conversation and said to Zhao Kai, "Hebei, Jingji, and Datong are uneasy, and the Northern Expedition army will have difficulty in deploying them. I believe that in order to fight against foreign aggression, we must first settle the internal affairs, but we must first establish Yingtian Military Mansion recruits another group of northerners.
In addition, the second phase of government troop concentration is almost completed. In a month or two, 20 generals of infantry will come north. By then, Hebei and Datong will have enough troops to hold on. "
Zhao Kai nodded, seemingly agreeing to fight the landlords first... If we defeat the landlords in Hebei and Beijing, we can temporarily place the land in Hebei and Beijing under the control of the military government!
And if you control the land, you control the population, and you can seize military supplies and recruit civilians from Hebei and Beijing.
Although Beijing Ji has been raped again and again by gold thieves, and the landlords probably have little leftover food, the situation in Hebei is different, and the landlords there still have food.
Zhao Kai glanced at Ma Kuo, the envoy of Yingtian in Hebei Road.
Ma Kuo understood Zhao Kai's thoughts and immediately said: "Give me one month, and Hebei Yingtian Envoy will be able to form at least 40 Yingtian military mansions!"
The so-called Yingtian Military Mansion is the yamen that manages the soldiers and fields. Theoretically, a military government could have up to 4,000 households of soldiers, and could have jurisdiction over up to 1 million acres of farmland.
However, the real foundation of these camp fields and military mansions is not the military households, but the military occupation fields - where there is land, there are soldiers! Therefore, the military government usually enclosed the land first, then recruited soldiers (effectiveness), and finally divided the fields.
What Ma Kuo meant by setting up 40 military camps was to enclose 40 million acres of land in the newly recovered Hebei territory!
Part of these 40 million acres may be wasteland, and some may be "ownerless" (land belonging to the runaway Jurchen Meng Anmooke), but most of it must have an owner, or a landowner with a deed, or someone who actually controls it. of landowners.
If Zhao Kai's military government wants to take over the ownership and control of the land, conflicts will definitely break out.
But this must be done!
If not, where would the 240,000 soldiers who followed Zhao Kai in the Northern Expedition go to confer farmland?
Moreover, there are 1 million tenant households on 40 million acres of land. Whoever holds the land controls these tenant households.
This is a huge human resource!
Zhao Kai thought of this and finally made up his mind. He nodded and said: "Okay, I have made up my mind... Then I will spare the golden thief for another three months! Within three months, Hebei will build 40 new military buildings. There are 20 Jianjunfu offices on Ji Road in Beijing, and as for Datong Road...it won’t move for the time being!”
