After Zhao Yucheng left, the only Zhao family member in power in Shandong was Zhao Zuoliang.
Zhao Zuoliang is also Su Yonglin's father-in-law, and his family is more like the Su family than the Zhao family.
At this point, the Zhao family has basically been eliminated from the world.
After Su Yonglin wiped out the power of the Zhao family, there was no longer anyone in the Liberation Army who could compete with Su Yonglin. Together with Sun Ziyi, who had surrendered earlier, Su Yonglin was the only one left among the three leaders of the Liberation Army uprising. .
He became the sole leader of the Liberation Army's uprising, justifiably and universally.
As the only leader, he will lead the Liberation Army to continue on to the other side of light.
The twelve states of Jeju, Yanzhou, Tengzhou, Xuzhou, Haizhou, Yizhou, Juzhou, Mizhou, Pizhou, Laizhou, Ninghaizhou, and Dengzhou in Zhao Kaishan's ruling area plus the entire Daming Prefecture naturally became Su Yonglin. defense zone.
As a result, Su Yonglin's control area increased to five roads, namely Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, Shandong East Road, Shandong West Road and Damingfu Road. Half of the Central Plains was already in hand.
And this day is May 29th, which is just over a year and a month since the official launch of the Liberation Army uprising.
A year ago, Su Yonglin was just an outsider with hundreds of soldiers in his hands. He had no foundation. Apart from himself, Zhao Kaishan had to provide many things before he could survive.
Now, one year later, Su Yonglin has become the leader of hundreds of thousands of Liberation Army, the ruler of Hebei and Shandong, and the ruler of tens of millions of people.
The sudden expansion of power and the final confirmation of the command of the Liberation Army made Su Yonglin's subordinates and the former Zhao Group figures who were lucky enough to survive very happy, thinking that good times were coming.
Everyone was celebrating Su Yonglin's efforts to bring things right and were immersed in joy, but Su Yonglin himself was not immersed in the joy of turning his back on guests.
He has indeed gained a lot of benefits, but he has too many things to do.
Because he received too many "legacies" belonging to Zhao Kaishan and the Zhao family, he had no time to be happy. He needed to spend a lot of energy to process and digest these inheritances.
First, by liquidating the Zhao family and the local powerful families who had taken refuge with them, he legitimately obtained more than 800,000 acres of unowned farmland from various states.
It's not wasteland, it's all cultivated, well-maintained, fertile land where food is grown.
This is only a preliminary statistical figure. There should be more, and it may exceed one million acres at any time.
There was nothing to say. Su Yonglin immediately sent someone to count the number of acres of land and the specific situation of local landless and landless farmers. He also contacted Tian Guizi to select instructors and prepared to build a large number of new villages here as his basic base.
While Su Yonglin was in Hebei, he did not relax his efforts to expand the new rural areas' sphere of influence in Shandong. Today, the population living in the new rural areas has reached about 1.4 million.
And this wave of fertile land contributed by the Zhao Group will allow him to build more new villages and accommodate more people. He will directly control the population and go directly to two million, or even exceed two million, and go directly to three. .
After eating and digesting this piece of meat, he can cultivate more fire. When the time comes, this fire can burn the sky in Shandong and Hebei red.
Of course, eating this big piece of fat meat made his mouth full of oil and his stomach was full, making him feel a little greasy and indigestion.
Therefore, this matter needs to be done slowly and will take a long time to be completed. The military and administrative aspects need to be expanded and reorganized, so there is no rush.
After assigning a dedicated person to follow up, Su Yonglin can go about other things, such as the army.
In addition to the disposal of land, the liquidation of the army is also very important.
Taking advantage of this wave of liquidations against the Zhao Group, Su Yonglin ordered the nine main forces of the Liberation Army under Zhao Kaishan to also be liquidated.
This wave of liquidation is facing officers in the army and some hills.
Su Yonglin selected instructors and personnel from the Military Justice Department from his own army to take charge of this matter. He used the public land system as a basis to comprehensively deal with officers who occupied public land, beat and scolded soldiers, and knew and violated the law. He resolutely punished and expelled the army to purify the army. .
As the powerful and powerful God of War of the Liberation Army, Su Yonglin's prestige is beyond the reach of Zhao Yucheng, so he can do things that Zhao Yucheng cannot do, and he can suppress people who Zhao Yucheng cannot suppress.
The original senior leaders of the Liberation Army were taken away in a wave, and the remaining middle and lower-level personnel did not even have weapons. They were unable to fight against the Tianxing Army and Tianxiong Army brought by Su Yonglin to suppress the formation.
As a result, a large number of Liberation Army officers and their cronies were smoothly liquidated. Every day, people from the Military Justice Department took the officers away for examination in front of the soldiers, but no one could resist.
And not only the troops that were originally close to the Zhao Group, but also the Beiwei Army and the Enemy-breaking Army, which had the greatest contribution to the mutiny, were also sent by Su Yonglin to conduct a review, and a wave of unqualified officers were screened out.
At the end of the review, very few came back safely.
Those who committed serious crimes were executed, while those who committed less serious crimes were packed up and sent to Hejian Mansion to receive transformation from the Guidance Department. The missing military officer positions were directly selected from the Tianxing Army and Tianxiong Army and transferred on the spot.
The liquidation of officers is the main task, and of course a wave of selection of soldiers is also necessary.
Zhao Kaishan purely pursued the quantity of the army rather than the quality of the army, and even forced conscription.
Su Yonglin strongly disagreed with this concept of running the army, so he eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled on a large scale, leaving only the young and strong in the army.
After the first wave of selection, basically all the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army were removed.
Then, Su Yonglin also sorted out the kinship relationships in the army and made a second wave of selections.
If father and son serve in the army together, the father returns home, if brothers serve in the army together, the younger brother returns home, and if the only son is an only son, he retires and returns home directly.
Those selected to retire and return home can also receive travel expenses, ensuring that they can return home safely and alive to start a new life.
Su Yonglin believes that this wave of selection will not only reduce redundant personnel in the army, but also reduce the burden on the people and gain popularity.
As expected, the whole army burst into praise.
After receiving grace to be relieved of military service and receiving travel expenses, the young man thanked Su Yonglin profusely and embarked on the road home with a grateful heart, wiping tears as he walked, thankful that he had been reborn.
These people will widely publicize Su Yonglin's kindness to them when they return home, and the People's Support Rate of the Liberation Army, which has dropped to a freezing point in this area, will also rise due to the change of leaders and the implementation of new policies.
After the two waves of selection, a little over 50,000 of the 120,000 to 30,000 Liberation Army soldiers remained.
These 50,000 elite soldiers were organized by Su Yonglin into five armies, with the military numbers being Beiwei Army, Tabai Army, Youyi Army, Breaking the Enemy Army, and Selecting the Front Army.
Of course, although the military number remains unchanged, Su Yonglin has reorganized it internally according to the way of his own troops, setting up generals, deputy generals, and instructors, and integrating them into the corps structure.
Su Yonglin dealt with the entire Shandong Liberation Army vigorously and resolutely, copied all his rules into the Shandong Liberation Army, and completely crushed the original old model with a management model they had never heard of.
As a result, these more than 50,000 troops began to glow with a different vitality.
After the liquidation, Su Yonglin re-appointed officers. The general who carried the Wei army was still Li Xiao, the general who led the Youyi army was still Zhou Zhi, and the general who defeated the enemy army was still Chen Qiaoshan.
Su Yonglin arranged for the deputy general of the Tianxiong Army, Li Rui, to be the general of the Tabai Army, and the deputy general of the Tianxing Army, Zhang Deguang, was selected to be the general of the Front Army.
It has to be said that the pass rate of Zhao Kaishan's army was really low. Su Yonglin couldn't retain more troops if he wanted to, so he could only reluctantly reorganize them into five armies as a warning against the Nanjing Road line of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty. strength.
In this case, it is impossible to expand the army. There is no one to handle it. Fortunately, the possibility of the Southern Song Dynasty sending troops northward is still very low for the time being. Su Yonglin is not worried that the Southern Song Dynasty will send troops northward, so Haizhou and Pizhou arrange a small number of troops on the front line. The troop strength is still relatively appropriate.
The main force still needs to be deployed on the front lines of Jeju, Tengzhou and Damingfu as a warning force for the Jin Kingdom's Nanjing Road front line.
But there shouldn’t be a fight there in the short term.
Zhao Kaishan had just mobilized more than 100,000 troops to fight the Nanjing Road Jin soldiers. The Nanjing Road troops should also have suffered serious losses and would not take the initiative to attack in the short term.
The entire southern and western fronts were the result of Zhao Kaishan's southern and northern campaigns. Although Zhao Kaishan did not achieve any substantial results, he still managed to tire out the Jin soldiers.
His one-pass punch indeed consumed a lot of the strength of the Jin soldiers in this area, so that even if Su Yonglin expanded his territory, he would not have to face the sudden increase in military pressure.
This played a great role in his reform and liquidation.
So it is not entirely true to say that Zhao Kaishan left him nothing.
