Chapter 1295 Pre-deployment

Chapter 1295 Pre-deployment

Chapter 1295 Pre-deployment
Shao Xun first read "Book of Jin".

The Geography and Five Elements were only a few pages long, so I finished reading them quickly. Then I made some comments: "It's too brief. Please also write about the specialties of each county."

"Yes." Yao Yishen replied.

"What else did the prince say?" Shao Xun asked again.

"Your Highness also feels that the Geography is too simple, but history books have always been like this, so please revise a new book," Yao Yishen replied.

"Or geography?"

"It is indeed a geographical record, and can also be used for military purposes. It would be best if the post stations and post roads could also be marked on it."

Shao Xun stood up and looked at the hanging map.

In fact, the post station system of the Daliang Dynasty was not perfect, especially in the central and southern areas of Jingzhou south of Nanyang, and the same was true south of the Huai River. Previously, the Shaofu planned to build post stations between Danyang, Chenliu, and Baling. The court also wanted to use them because their post station system in this area was very sparse, and wanted to merge with the Shaofu - it was called a merger, but in fact it was just to take advantage.

It goes without saying that establishing a nationwide post station system is very expensive.

Shao Xun built post stations in Henan in his early years, and many of them were contracted out.

Part of it is used to house disabled veterans, and most of them are located on popular routes, and are allowed to operate externally for profit.

Part of it was contracted to local wealthy households, mostly on relatively remote routes. If it were opened to external customers, it would not make any money, at least the court would not make any money. However, some local wealthy households were interested and they thought they could make money.

The rest were mostly post stations that were barely breaking even, and were run by the imperial court itself, with subsidies required from time to time.

Shao Xun originally wanted to build a complete post system like the ones in the Sui and Tang dynasties, with an average of one post station every thirty miles, and Jiangguan and Luyi. However, he was ultimately unable to do so and could only develop it step by step in accordance with reality.

The prince wanted to compile a book on military geography and mark all the post stations. This was a good idea, but I don't know whether it was his own idea or the idea of ​​an official in the Eastern Palace.

As for the post roads, the one with the best road conditions in Daliang at present is the post road connecting the western capital Luoyang and the eastern capital Bianliang. Both extend outward for a while. The former goes directly to the city of Tongguan, while the latter only extends eastward to Jiyin.

This east-west road of hundreds of miles is maintained regularly and the road condition is relatively good.

As for the north-south direction, with Luoyang as the center, it extends northward to Bicheng at the junction of Henei and Shangdang, which is the entrance to Taihang Mountains; it extends southward to Kunyang and Ye County, which is the Wanye Corridor area from Luonan to Jingzhou.

In addition to these two cross-intersecting post roads, there are some scattered ones, such as the post road from Luoyang to Yingchuan, the post road from Bianliang to Chenjun, the post road from Jinyang to Yanmen Pass, the post road from Jijun to Yecheng, etc. They are not systematic, and many of them are half-finished roads. They were either built by local people with sufficient finances, or built urgently due to wars in the early years and then continued to be maintained to this day.

Building roads is not an easy task.

Everything can be ultimately attributed to money and food.

"It's great that the prince has this idea." Shao Xun praised him first, and then asked, "What does he plan to do?"

"Your Highness wants to dispatch officials from the Eastern Palace to various places to investigate the geography and customs of the people, record them, and compile them uniformly after returning to Beijing." Yao Yishen said.

Shao Xun did not comment.

Now the officials are out of the capital for inspection. Will the prince himself go out of the capital for inspection in the future? It has only been more than a year. Could it be that Liang Nu can't sit still?

Shao Xun thought about it and finally thought of Yu Wenjun's eyes full of affection. After a moment of silence, he finally said, "Okay. Let's name this book "Guo Di Zhi". I approve it. The compilation of "Jin Shu" cannot be neglected. What you submitted are all easy to write. There are many difficult ones. How far have you written?"

"I will be writing "The Emperor's Chronicles" and "The Biographies of Empresses and Concubines" at the same time," Yao Yishen replied.

"How many biographies of empresses and concubines were written?" Shao Xun asked.

"Zhang Chunhua, Xiahou Hui, Yang Huiyu, Wang Yuanji, Yang Yan, Yang Zhi, Jia Nanfeng, Yang Xianrong, Liang Lanbi, and Qin Ling, the ten queens." Yao Yisheng said, "There are also some noble concubines and wives who are briefly mentioned."

"Mrs. Teng is also listed among them?" Shao Xun asked.

Yao Yishen was a little frightened.

"She once scolded me for being 'a humble subject'." Shao Xun chuckled and said, "It's okay, I'll write it. That's it, you can leave now."

"Yes, sir." Yao Yishen bowed and took his leave.

After leaving the Guanfeng Palace, I sighed secretly, the most difficult thing to write is the biography of concubines!
How to write Yang Xianrong and Liang Lanbi? Qin Ling is not easy to write either.

In addition, Sima Rui's family was classified as "usurpers", but it also needs to be written, your mother is a servant, there are traps everywhere!
Yao Yishen really wanted to curse, so he walked away with a frown on his face.

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Shao Xun rested for a while, drank a cup of tea, and then opened the letter from his third brother Shao Fan.

During the twelfth month of last year, war indeed broke out in Liaodong.

Murong Huang led the troops personally, but there is no clear record of the exact number of troops. This was because neither the Governor of Youzhou nor the Huangsha Prison had infiltrated the top levels and had no access to comprehensive information. The most they could do was bribe a few people at the lower levels to gain in-depth information.

This is like a blind man touching an elephant.

A Youzhou scholar who took refuge in Liaodong said "thousands of chariots and tens of thousands of horsemen" and "like a surging tide". These are obviously literary rhetoric devices, and war cannot be analyzed based on this.

A scholar from Jizhou who served as an official under Murong Xianbei said, "The order was sent out to all counties and prefectures, and everyone in the neighborhood heard about it." This meant that Murong Xianbei's order had reached all counties and prefectures.

He also said: "The baggage carts were connected head to tail by thirty post stations; the wood for the camp was transported day and night for eight thousand carts."

Shao Xun slammed the table as he watched.

He was sure that the "30 post stations" and "8,000 chariots" in the intelligence were not real numbers, and the person who provided the information himself was not clear about it, and most likely filled it in randomly based on rumors. As for "smoke from stoves filled the fields, connecting to the sunset in the distance; torches in the camps, darkening the stars", the value of this information was even lower.

At the end, Shao Xun could only analyze it from the perspective of facts.

What is certain is:

First, Murong Huang sent out troops, but the number of troops was unknown. Considering that some Han people in the counties and villages were also temporarily mobilized, it is likely that there were between 30,000 and 50,000 infantry and cavalry, and only 10,000 or 20,000 people who could really fight, which was not a large scale.

Second, several counties in Liaodong were occupied by Murong Huang. According to the observation of a certain Duanbu Xianbei shepherd (a shepherd who was married off as a dowry), there were signs that the local nobles in these counties had been relocated.

Third, Murong Ren launched a counterattack but was repelled.

Fourth, Murong Ren set up his headquarters in Pingguo City, which was an old county in the Han Dynasty (near Xiongyue Town, Bayuquan District, Yingkou today), where salt officials and iron officials were stationed;
Fifth, Murong Ren's main force was stationed in the area of ​​Anshi City, confronting Murong Huang's remaining troops.

So far, these are the only facts that can be confirmed, and all other miscellaneous information is unreliable.

Shao Xun asked the Imperial Attendant Duan Mobo to fetch the map of Pingzhou, looked at it carefully, and then asked, "What did Murong Ren say when we tried to persuade him to surrender last year?"

Duan Mobo replied: "He asked for the title of Duke of Liaodong County and made Liaodong County his fiefdom."

"How can you be so careless and speak without thinking? Where do you get the confidence from?" Shao Xun asked.

"I'm afraid it's because the weather is too cold. Many livestock in Changli, Xuantu and other places have frozen to death, and the war horses are weak. Ren Huang feels that he is unable to launch a large-scale attack." Duan Mobo said.

"But after a year of accumulation, Murong Huang finally came." Shao Xun said: "Is Murong Ren awake now?"

"You should be a little anxious." Duan Mobo said.

"He's anxious, and I'm a little anxious too, worried for him." Shao Xun shook his head and laughed, "Where's the secretary?"

"Your Majesty." Wang Xizhi quickly stepped forward and saluted.

"Draft an imperial decree. Order the Honglu Temple to send an envoy to Qingzhou and sail north to Liaodong to confer him the title of Duke of Xuantu County and give him the three counties of Goguryeo, Gaoxian, and Wangping as his fiefdom." Shao Xun ordered: "If Murong Ren accepts the title, he will enjoy wealth and honor for generations."

"Order the first battalion of the Wansheng Army to go to Qingzhou. The Left Flying Dragon Guard will also dispatch 4,800 men to travel east to set up the Donglai Camp in Penglai County. General Xu Lang of the Left Flying Dragon Guard will be the camp's commander, and the Navy Commander Yang Bao will be his deputy. The two states of Qingzhou and Xuzhou will obey the camp's orders."

"If Murong Ren accepts the title, we will immediately coordinate the sea crossing."

Wang Xizhi finished recording quickly and then went to draft an imperial edict.

This troop deployment is quite complicated.

The 10,000-man First Battalion of the Wansheng Army is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and a transfer order needs to be signed by the Minister of War Hou Feihu.

The Zuo Feilong Guard was a palace soldier. After the emperor issued an edict, it was sent to the Zuo Feilong Guard office in the city of Bianliang. The general of the Zuo Feilong Guard would summon several assistant officers, read it out in public, have them sign and seal it, and then take the military token to the various military offices under the Zuo Feilong Guard to allocate personnel and equipment.

The navy is also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, but they are already in Donglai.

If the imperial guards were to be mobilized at this time, the Privy Council and the Military Supervisor would have to issue the mobilization order.

However, things were different after the camp was established. The recruiting envoy had full authority, and more than ten counties in Qing and Xu states all entered a state of wartime control.

As the saying goes, a general is not bound by the orders of his emperor when he is away from the court. He could just resist some unreasonable orders from the emperor. What else could he do? Of course, this would not have happened when Shao was still alive.

"How is Murong Han doing recently?" After giving the order, Shao Xun stood up and asked as he walked out.

"There is nothing to do in Beijing." Duan Mobo said.

He knew why the emperor asked him, because he was ordered to contact Murong Han and they had frequent interactions.

"Did you complain?" Shao Xun asked.

"Never."

"Find another opportunity to visit him in the near future and ask him what would happen if Murong Xianbei was conquered by Daliang." Shao Xun looked at Duan Mobo and said, "You know how to ask, right? Don't be too deliberate."

"I don't need to worry about that." Duan Mobo said with his head down.

Shao Xun nodded and left the Guanfeng Hall.

He quickly arrived at the delicacy office of the Shaofu of Fangzhou Pavilion in a sedan chair. Not long after, Yang Xianrong also arrived in a sedan chair, holding a tightly wrapped baby in her arms.

"Your daughter." Yang Xianrong stuffed the swaddling clothes into Shao Xun's arms and said sarcastically, "You have so many children, what's the point of taking care of this one?"

Shao Xun laughed and carefully held his daughter, who was only half a month old, and looked at her carefully.

A moment later, Shi came again, holding a 19-month-old baby boy in her arms.

When the two swaddling clothes were placed in front of him, Shao Xun felt extremely satisfied.

"Let's go." He handed his daughter to Yang Xianrong and said.

It is the time of late spring and early summer, the sea of ​​sand is vast and blue, and the willows on the shore are green and lush.

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