Yang Qing stayed in Hanzhong for eight full days before he explained everything clearly to Ma Su. In the early morning of this day, Yang Qing, Yang Xi, and Liu Yin left Nanzheng under the farewell of Ma Su, Li Yu and other Hanzhong officials, and began to rush to the new battlefield of Longyou.
When passing through Mianyang, Yang Qing went to the Wudang Feijun camp to give Wang Pingping and others a few words, ordering them to fill up the 10,000 troops as soon as possible and train diligently to prepare for the next war.
After leaving Mianyang, Yang Qing and his party quickly left Hanzhong and entered Wudu County. Once here, they set foot on the land of Yongzhou, because according to the organizational structure just issued by the imperial court, Wudu County is under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou, and it is not under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou. The adjacent Yinping County falls under the jurisdiction of Yizhou.
Therefore, Yang Qing, the governor of Yongzhou, currently has six counties: Wudu, Longxi, Nan'an, Tianshui, Guangwei, and Anding. He only needs to recover the three subordinate counties of Fufeng, Feng Yi, and Jingzhao in Guanzhong. His Yongzhou can be restored to integrity.
The current governor of Wudu is Ma Dai, but he is not here now. Instead, he went to Liangzhou to recruit the Qiang and Hu on Zhuge Liang's order. Therefore, Yang Qing did not stay in Wudu for long. After resting for one night in Xiaben, he continued to rush to Shanggui.
After traveling day and night, without talking all the way, Yang Qing and his party finally returned to Shanggui, the current seat of the Yongzhou Governor's Office, after a few days, and he himself was officially in office.
On the second day after settling down, Yang Qing announced three orders in succession.
The first order was that he formally recruited Yang Xi as the governor of Yongzhou, Liu Yin as the soldier cao, Qin Kuang as the chief secretary, Tao Gong as the front department commander, Zhou Xing as the account supervisor, and Wu Que as the governor. The governor is engaged in the work, and Yue Zhao is the official in charge of the account.
He also invited scholars from Longyou to Shanggui to participate in the election. He would personally write the exams, and those with excellent scores would be recruited. After all, the governor's office also had meritorious officials, counselors, scholars, classics officials, and commanders. There are a large number of vacancies for subordinate officials such as officers and assistants, and it is necessary to step up the selection of talents to enrich the state capital.
The second order ordered each county to mobilize 300 elite county soldiers to assemble in Shanggui. Based on these 1,800 soldiers, he wanted to form a state army directly under the governor's office.
According to the system, the governor of a state can have four thousand soldiers and horses in four divisions under his command, and they are commanded by four commanders, namely the front, rear, left and right officers of the governor's office.
Therefore, Yang Qing decided that in addition to recruiting some new soldiers, he also had to transfer a group of veteran soldiers from various counties. In this way, the state soldiers could be quickly formed and combat effectiveness could be quickly formed, which could be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Of course, Liu Yin, the state's military commander and military cao, took the lead in handling this matter, and Qin Kuang, the cavalry commander and front Sima Cong, assisted.
As for the third and most important order, it reminded the counties that the top priority now was to cope with the upcoming summer harvest. All counties and counties were to send officials to the countryside to inspect farming and help the people collect grain.
The Guanlong area mainly grows corn and wheat, and wheat is winter wheat. It is usually sown from mid-to-late September to early October and matures from the end of May to mid-to-late June of the following year.
It is now the end of May and the wheat harvest is about to begin.
Although the counties had experienced wars in the past few months, most of the farmland in Longyou was relatively well preserved due to the strict military discipline of the Han army and the fact that most of the county towns were recovered without bloodshed.
In addition, the weather has been good last year and this year, so a large amount of grain can still be stored in the warehouse for this year's summer harvest.
This batch of grain is not only related to the lives of the people this year but also to the upcoming battle to recapture Liangzhou. Therefore, not only Yang Qing attaches great importance to the summer harvest, but even Wei Yan is also very concerned about this matter. He has planned to send sergeants to help the people around Shanggui. The wheat is harvested.
The wheat field in Shanggui County is the largest wheat field in Longyou, and more than half of it belongs to official fields. In the past, Cao Wei implemented military settlements on these official fields, and all the harvested grain was assigned to the army. Therefore, Longyou’s military rations Thanks to the supply of Shanggui, this is one of the reasons why Shanggui became the most important town in Longyou.
After the Han army recaptured Longyou, they carefully protected the wheat fields in Shanggui. Not only did they continue to follow Wei's rules for military garrisoning, but they also allocated 3,000 Wei soldiers captured previously for farming and maintenance. Separate the Han soldiers from their camps so that they can concentrate on training.
On this day, the sky was clear and the wind was gentle. Yang Qing and Wei Yan went out of the city to inspect the maturity of the wheat.
Arriving at the nearest village outside the city, Yang Qing and others looked around and saw yellow wheat ears, full of grains and heavy. A breeze came, like layers of golden waves, and a fragrance drifted away in the wind. , everyone breathed calmly, feeling refreshing, this is the taste of ripe food.
"It won't take a few days for the wheat to be harvested, right?" Yang Qing stood on the field ridge, holding an ear of wheat in his hand and carefully looking at the wheat grains on it.
The village elder who was waiting beside him replied: "Your Majesty, that's right. The people are preparing to harvest in three days."
"Well, okay. If you have any difficulties, just tell the county. The government can help with farm tools and manpower."
The village elder quickly bowed his hands and said, "You are kind and kind. I would like to thank you on behalf of the villagers."
Yang Qing smiled and waved his hand, then looked elsewhere, but when he saw Wei Yan coming from the opposite side, he went up to meet him and asked: "General Wen Chang, can you feel relieved after going around in a circle?"
"Well, although Longyou suffered a military disaster this year, the wheat is growing well. With this batch of grain in storage, it will be possible to capture Liangzhou this year." Wei Yan replied angrily.
It turns out that Wei Yan took the initiative to invite Yang Qing out of the city today to supervise the farmers. This batch of grain is related to whether the war to regain Liangzhou can start within this year, so Wei Yan is more concerned about it than Yang Qing, the governor, for fear that something will go wrong with the summer harvest. .
"Haha, General Wenchang, just rest assured. In fact, you don't need to be too nervous. Even if the local food is not enough to support the army's western expedition, the Qing Dynasty believes that even if the food and grass have to be transported thousands of miles from Hanzhong, the prime minister will launch a war to regain Liangzhou in the second half of the year. "
Wei Yan was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "Oh? Why is Mingzhi so sure?"
Yang Qing looked around and saw that everyone was far away, so he felt relieved and said in a low voice: "So that General Wenchang will know that when the Qing Dynasty returned to Chengdu, it happened to be the envoy of Zhuge Jin from the Eastern Wu Dynasty. According to him, , Soochow may launch a large-scale war against Cao Wei in the near future, and Wu Lord Sun Quan intends to ask us to send troops to respond.
So once the war breaks out in Soochow, Cao Wei's attention will definitely move eastward. It's hard to say in Guanzhong by then, but Liangzhou will definitely be beyond Cao Wei's reach. Therefore, the prime minister will never let this opportunity go. Once the military order arrives, The general's recapture of Liangzhou is just around the corner. "
"Oh, is this happening? If Soochow and Cao Wei really fight, then God will help me." After hearing this, Wei Yan was surprised and happy.
Yang Qing nodded: "It must be true. Sun Quan brought a handwritten letter, and Lu Xun also had the same intention in his letter."
In fact, Yang Qing is sure that this is true, because he knows that the war currently being prepared by Soochow is the famous Battle of Shiting in history. In this battle, Wu and Wei had hundreds of thousands of soldiers participating in the battle, and the scale was extremely large. In the end, Soochow won.
Historically, because of Cai Han's ability to repulse Ji Han's first Northern Expedition, Cao Wei could safely focus on the east during the Battle of Shiting. However, now that Ji Han's first Northern Expedition has achieved a great victory, Cao Wei still dares to attack the enemy. Part of the focus on the Eastern Front is unknown.
But what is certain is that even if Cao Wei is still on guard against Ji Han, as soon as the Battle of Shiting starts, Cao Wei will not dare to invest too many troops on the western front, so this is a rare opportunity for Ji Han anyway Opportunity.
"That's it, then we should be close to each other." Wei Yan said excitedly: "I just hope this day comes soon."
Seeing his eagerness and expectation, Yang Qing secretly cursed: "You don't have to be so anxious, right?"
