Chapter 484 The Competition for Hanzhong County (Part 1) [It's Late]
Dong Hu failed to expect that all the princes would gather 200,000 to 300,000 troops in just three months. According to his calculations, even if all the princes wanted to raise their flags to rebel, they should have bloomed in spring. After all, it was very difficult to gather troops in winter. But he made a common sense mistake and thought that this time was the same as the Han Dynasty before the first year of Zhongping.
Before the Zhangjiao brothers rebelled, most of the rebellions of the Han Dynasty were Qiang, Hu and Barbarians. Apart from the thousands of regular soldiers in these chaotic places, there were only semi-military forts established. The rest were very few soldiers from various prefectures and counties. It was not that the court did not want to raise a large number of troops, but that the poor finance did not allow it at all.
However, after the Zhangjiao brothers rebelled, although the Yellow Turban Army suffered a heavy blow, some remnants of each prefecture and county occupied the mountains and became kings. Because of this, each prefecture and county needed some troops to suppress bandits, and each prefecture and county also used this to recruit soldiers and intercepted the taxes sent to the court on this ground.
It would be fine if the court's taxes were not intercepted. There was still some food in Taicang and Ao Cang in Luoyang. After it was intercepted, Taicang and Ao Cang also became an existence that could starve rats to death.
Dong Hu instinctively followed the inertial thinking and did not think that the princes of Guandong could recruit 200,000 to 300,000 troops in winter. However, when Luoyang sent out the exact rebellion news of the princes from various princes, he realized that he had made a mistake, but he didn't care. He had to fight anyway.
The "Lady's Group" visited various counties, and several children still needed the care of him, the dad, and they couldn't even go to fight with others secretly. They could only sit at home to handle some military and political affairs and mobilize food and grass.
He didn't need to personally inquire about transporting grain from Taiyuan County. He had his own military commanders in charge of the transportation of grain. The current task was to measure the fields and divide the fields. Regardless of whether the famous families in Hedong County were willing or not, he was extremely tough. He grabbed and chopped his fingers when there was an obstruction, and directly sent them to Pingcheng as slaves. As for fiefs, he would admit it. Anyway, he would not recognize anything. His troops did not have any food households!
When the voting result came out, the Wei family found Cai Yan and cried and begged again. This behavior completely angered Dong Hu. Countless soldiers broke into the Wei Mansion, and the Wei family made the chicken without any surprise.
After robbing the Wei family of money and food, the Wei family had no choice but to point at the general's mansion in the yard and curse, they could only distribute the land to the small family members and slaves in the clan. Perhaps only in this way can the Wei family protect the land to the greatest extent. But this is only in a short period of time. Once the land deed is marked with someone else's name, will the slaves raised by the Wei family still recognize that they are part of the Wei family? Then God knows.
The Wei family is a large family in Hedong, and there are salt fields and copper mines in Hedong. The barns in the house are full of them. The gold and copper alone are more than 100,000 yuan, which also makes Dong Hu grin. No wonder the old saying is that people are not rich without wealth, but on the second day after robbing the money, Wei Ji and Wei Gu disappeared, and it is said that they went to Luoyang to file a lawsuit.
If he loves to sue or not, he doesn't care about such a thing. Even if he goes to the rebellion, he is fearless. As long as the Wei family honestly divides the land and honestly abides by his 30% rent rules, he will be fine.
After killing the chicken of Wei, the other families became honest. They either lowered the rent or scattered some land to reduce the burden. As for whether they had resentment in their hearts... there must be resentment, and even assassination was normal. He had this awareness and once again set up a network of secret spies in the Jinyiwei in Hedong County.
Cai Yan and Liu Bian were in charge of measuring the fields and dividing the fields. The county magistrates and county magistrates were all selected by the army. Regardless of whether they did well, at least they were obedient. Dong Chong, Dong Fu, Dong Fang, Dong Gu, Pang De... Even Gao Shun also brought troops to each county to amazement. No county town dared to cause trouble for two young people, and they had to take people to the fields to measure the fields.
In this era, there were few people and many lands, which were far from being opened to the top of the mountain like later generations. The entire Hedong County now has only 400,000 or 500,000 people, which is not as large as an ordinary small county town in later generations. Even if each household is divided into 100 acres, it is nothing. Just like the practice of Liangbing, in addition to civilian fields, some military farmland and official fields are also specially divided into.
To measure the fields, it is not complicated to divide the fields into ploughs, but there are many messy things, because the fields in this era were not available for fertilizers, and the fields had to be fallow for a period of time, or twice in three years, or three in five years. Some fields had already planted wheat in autumn, and some were not cultivated during fallow season, so the fields were redistributed. People without fields naturally wanted to divide the fields with wheat seedlings. In addition to whether there are wheat seedlings, there are also dry fields, paddy fields, dry fields, and large fields and mountain fields, and fields were also divided into fat fields and barren fields, as well as the number of fields in each village... Anyway, it is quite complicated. It takes a lot of time for each county and village to quarrel to get a distribution result.
The matter of dividing the land itself is not complicated. How much land is distributed to people? Even Xiao Dongbai can calculate it with a pencil, but it cannot be solved in three or two days. He also wanted to take the opportunity to exercise the dolls, so he asked Cai Yan, Liu Yan and Liu Bian to take the group of young soldiers to preside over the matter, so he let Gao Shun, who had a dark face all day, be the babysitter for the dolls, and be responsible for their safety.
The wife's delegation inspected the counties of Bingzhou, and the children were very busy all day long. The soldiers had to travel to Taiyuan County to transport grain. Because the seven children had to take care of them, Dong Hu didn't dare to go out easily. Apart from competing with a few crying and flirting babies, he just taught the children to read and read in the general's house, and just treated the official duties as correcting the children's homework. In addition to occasionally going to the military camp to inspect whether the generals had slack training, he had always been in this state during the stable season, and this was the case since he started to support his younger brothers and sisters.
For Dong Hu, personality determines destiny, but what really affects character is education. Although reading and literacy cannot make every younger brother and sister become famous scholars in the world, their destiny will also be changed by the knowledge he teaches.
Just in terms of Confucian classics, Dong Hu's knowledge is not as good as that of ordinary poor scholars, but the knowledge in his memory is mixed and he can't compare to the people of this era. It's like calculating and adding or subtracting the abacus. This is a great progress. After learning these, even a baby like Xiao Dong Bai can be a accountant, which is much better than plucking soil and farming, right?
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At the beginning, he had no ambition to dominate the world, but instinctively felt that his younger brothers and sisters should learn more knowledge and had the obligation to pass on the knowledge they still remembered. Therefore, he personally taught his younger brothers and sisters since he was a child. In addition to having to travel outside to survive, he always stayed in Lintao honestly, which was different from the Rangers when Dong Zhuo was young.
He felt that he was a very honest child and had been very honest since he was a child, but in the eyes of everyone in Luoyang, he was a noisy boy. However, when February entered, Dong Zhuo also turned his attention from Hedong County to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and others, especially Hedong County Prince Kuang.
After Xu Rong led 150,000 troops to cross Hulao Pass, Cao Cao brought 5,000 troops to rescue Chenliu day and night. When he ran to Chenliu, Xu Rong had already led 5,000 troops into Aocang and confronted the Hanoi army led by Wang Kuang. The two sides entered a short period of stable confrontation. After Yuan Shao led 50,000 troops into Henei County, Wang Kuang retreated to the north bank of the Yellow River, but stationed troops in Mengjin, as if he could kill the river and attack Luoyang at any time.
While Wang Kuang was threatening Luoyang at the Yellow River Ferry, Xu Rong also escorted the money and grain he had plundered during this period to return to Luoyang. But at this time, Yuan Shao turned to Henoi from Henoi and joined forces with all the princes to attack Dong Zhuo. For a time, countless followers were followed, and heroes from all walks of life gathered at Henoi. However, before the war drums of the princes in Guandong were ringing, Hanzhong County took the lead in fierce fighting...
Xu Huang, general of Wudu County, took the lead to lead 5,000 elite soldiers from Ju County. Zhang Lu was shocked and urgently ordered Han Sui to lead 5,000 troops to resist. The two sides had equal strength and the enemies were particularly jealous when they met. Han Sui still had 3,000 elite soldiers in Liangzhou, all of whom were brave soldiers who had formed a mortal hatred with Dong Buyicon. The two sides fought fiercely. Just when Ma Teng led another 5,000 troops to join the battle that had not yet been decided, Dong Xiaoyi and Dong Sijie suddenly led 10,000 stairs and cavalry to attack Sanguan.
"kill--"
Dong Xiaoyi led five thousand cavalry out first. He was still a hundred steps away. Countless iron cavalry shot with arrows, and wave after wave of arrows. Before Han Sui was in a melee, he was defeated and fled. Ma Teng actually dispersed first. Han Sui, who was slanted with a crooked armor, cursed.
"Mateng, you bastard--"
Yan Xing made a blow, turned his horse's head and fled. Han Sui was so angry that he suddenly pulled the war horse.
"withdraw--"
Yan Xing and Han Sui have top-notch war horses to run away. How can soldiers who have fought for a whole day escape?
"kill--"
Seeing Ma Teng, Han Sui and others kicking war horses and running away, Dong Xiaoyi did not chase and kill them, but used thousands of cavalry to circle the panicked and fleeing soldiers, bows, arrows, and flying stones became more anxious. The soldiers holding wooden shields wanted to gather three or five people to resist, but kept screaming and falling to the ground...
Dong Xiaoyi did not give the enemy a chance, sometimes near and sometimes far away, countless iron cavalry kept crossing and shooting, and screams of arrows came one after another.
"kill--"
Countless infantry entered the battlefield, and a long horn sounded suddenly on the battlefield. Countless cavalry fighting left their enemies and ran eastward. In a short time, they gathered into a torrent of steel, running wildly towards Han Sui and Ma Teng's escape...
Xu Huang rushed into Hanzhong from the west of Wudu County, Dong Xiaoyi and Dong Sijie rushed south along the Chencang Road, Dong Siyi led 5,000 soldiers and horses into the pavement road, and 20,000 soldiers and horses entered at the same time from three directions. Dong Xiaoyi, the strongest Dong Sijie, was almost blocked, and killed directly behind Han Sui, but Xu Huang and Dong Siyi encountered tenacious resistance from the soldiers and horses of Yizhou.
Chapter completed!