Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 654

[Chapter 654 Military Management]

“You are really good people…” Lu Chang came out from the house, and the old man suddenly knelt down in front of him.

“Please, old man, I can’t help it.” Lu Chang quickly helped the old man up, and led him to the locust tree in front of the door.

Chang Wei also came over at this time, and the three of them sat on the ground.

At this time, he said: “Old man, how have you been living under the jurisdiction of the Han family these years?” The

old man sighed.

The soldiers from Yanzhou entered the village and did nothing wrong with them. They also helped them with work and gave them food, which made the old man relax from his vigilance.

He said: “What can we do? Planting the land of the wealthy family, being bullied by the wealthy family, we can only barely eat and wear.”

“Compared to the people of Yanzhou who have land in their homes and only pay 10% of the tax, and their children can study and become officials, we It’s far from here.”

After finishing speaking, the old man sighed again.

Hearing this, Chang Wei smiled and said, “The old man knows our Yanzhou very well.”

“This is what Wang Wu said. He was captured during the Jiangbei war, and then fled back to the village after taking your money, and We talked about these things.”

“Oh? Then where is this Wang Wu now?” Chang Wei said, he became interested.

This is the effect of their policy of preferential treatment of captives.

The escaped captives will invisibly promote Yanzhou.

“Not long after I came back, I was arrested by the soldiers of the Hao clan. It is said that they were transferred to Dongping City and put into prison by the government.”

Then, he said: “There are also some soldiers who have escaped and seduced some young and strong, who turned into bandits. Fighting against the private soldiers of the rich family, there was a lot of trouble some time ago, but it was suppressed by the private soldiers of the rich family.”

Seemingly realizing that the word “bewitching” is not appropriate, his face tightened immediately, and he glanced worriedly Lu Chang and Chang Wei.

Chang Wei nodded.

He was aware of the disturbances in the villages near the south bank.

Because some of these Qi soldiers who fled back have been bought by Xu Ke’s Fourth Court.

He has been in charge of spying on the south bank, and at the same time trying his best to win over the nearby people to create conditions for them to go south.

They detected the positions of the forts at the South Bank Ferry, including some hidden forts.

Otherwise, they will suffer even more when crossing the river this time.

After chatting with the old man for a while, Chang Wei and Lu Chang went to other villagers’ homes to learn about the situation.

He is not just for chatting, but more for measuring the hearts of Qizhou people.

Measure their attitudes towards the Han family and the wealthy Qizhou family.

Since leaving this village, they went to three more villages.

In the evening, they returned to Wubao.

Chang Wei called the generals together and asked them to discuss the collected sentiments.

“Generally speaking, the life of the people here is more comfortable than that of the people in Yanzhou. At that time, the rich families in Yanzhou collected 80% of the tax, but here it was 70%.” Qin Shan said.

Guan Tong nodded, “So although they are looking forward to our arrival, their main idea is to wait and see, and they are unwilling to come forward to support us.

” There are three types of people in China. The first type is the nobles and those dependent on them. They hate us deeply. When Wubao was pulled out, they resisted very firmly. In the next battle, they will also be the main ones. Enemies.”

“The second type of people are the wealthy households in the village. They are already living a good life. Whether we come or not, it doesn’t change much for them, so their desire to support us is very low.”

“The first The three are the poor people who have become tenant farmers, and the refugees who lost their land. They support us very much, and many of them even proposed to join the army.”

Chang Wei showed a satisfied smile.

Zhong Li has a delicate mind and is often praised by King Yan in the Military Academy.

At the moment, King Yan was preparing to transfer Zhongli from the cavalry, and only let Chen Hu be in charge of the cavalry.

And let Zhongli take the post of secretary in charge of the royal family’s army.

Responsible for commanding the entire army’s orders and in charge of educating soldiers.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong looked at each other and laughed at themselves, “After all, we are vulgar people, we can only do rough work of fighting.”

Zhong Li shook his head, “You don’t care at all, you just want to fight all the way through, and you don’t want to fight down at all. What about the localities?”

“Zhong Li is right.” Chang Wei glared at the two of them, “After defeating Qi, we will continue to go south. The farther we go, the more manpower and material resources will be spent transporting grain and grass. The prefecture is a serious burden.”

“And if we can win the support of the local people, this problem can be solved easily, and one stone of grain can be obtained in the land that has been smashed, which is worth ten stones of grain shipped from Yanzhou.”

“Furthermore , with the support of the people, we will go home wherever we go.” The

generals nodded one after another.

At this time, Chang Wei turned to Zhongli, “General Zhong, how do you think the occupied territory should be governed now.”

Zhongli thought for a while and said, “In fact, in the military school, His Highness said that the situation on the battlefield should be based on the poor people. Base, establish a temporary governing body, such as the village yamen.”

“At the same time, set up township soldiers to protect the yamen, maintain order, and let the rich and vacillating people be under the jurisdiction of these poor people, so that there will be no chaos.”

“Hahaha…” Chang Wei laughed, not only King Yan, he also likes Zhongli very much.

This delicate work needs to be done by Zhong Li, so he said: “General Zhong, how about leaving this matter to you?”.

“Yes, General.” Zhong Li did not refuse, and the King of Yan actually mentioned to him about being the secretary.

In his opinion, this order will come down sooner or later.

And in contrast, apart from Mo Yu and him, there was indeed no one more suitable for the position of secretary in the army.

In the assessment held by the Military Academy, Mo Yu was not very proficient in this area, and his assessment results were very poor, so King Yan directly did not consider it.

He really became the only candidate.

Chang Wei felt relieved when he decided on this matter.

In fact, he didn’t want to take over the task of stabilizing the rear either.

After all, there are too many trivial things here.

With Zhongli taking over, he can be the hands-off shopkeeper.

Then, they discussed for a while about attacking Dongping City.

Once a war begins, it will not end until one side finally falls.

Before Qi reinforcements arrived, they wanted to occupy Dongping City as soon as possible.

Use Dongping City as a nail on the territory of Qi State, and then wait for the opportunity to wipe out the entire Qi State in one fell swoop.

The next day, Zhongli led 3,000 soldiers to appear in a nearby village, summoned the poor people in the village to set up a village yamen, and asked Li Zheng and Baochang, who were in charge of the village yamen, to lead the people to measure the acres and divide the land officially.

At the same time, the tax policy of ten taxes and one tax was announced.

Then, he selected six people from among the soldiers under his command to set up the county government office, and let them be in charge of all the village government offices, and exercise military control over this territory.

At the same time, the palace army continued to head south.

In less than half a day, they arrived at Dongping City.

Like the attack on the three Wubao, Chang Wei ordered the soldiers to dig tunnels at night and prepare to attack the city the next day.

(end of this chapter)