Chapter 241 The First Young Master Dong Mao's Worries
Dong Hu and Da Ya know that they will never leave their roots. No matter what the final result is, as long as Dong Mao is not too useless, Dong Zhuo's family business must be inherited to his own son, son-in-law Niu Fu, and nephew Dong Huang, no matter how good he is, he is an outsider, not his own son!
Da Ya and San Ya were lying on a bed, saying private words between sisters, and in another general manager's mansion on the street across from the city lord's mansion. Dong Mao and Li were also talking about the privacy between the couple.
Since the people of Lintao slaughtered the entire Li family in one day, Li seemed to have become a different person, and he seemed to be ten years old. Especially when Didao's Li family repeatedly sent people to ask for help, Li always cried and complained about making trouble with Dong Mao. Until Hanyang County rebelled and Qiang people surrendered again, Longxi County completely resolved the crisis, and Li seemed to have come back to life and no longer made trouble with Dong Mao.
On the day when Dong Zhuo wrote, Li was packing his needs on the way, and detoured from the plateau to Sanfu in Chang'an for thousands of miles. This journey alone could kill people, not to mention in the cold winter.
"My husband, why don't we drive away the people in Yunwu City and let's go back to my father-in-law from Didao?"
After hearing some servants' words, Li knew that Han Sui had killed Bian Zhang and Marquis Li Wen, the rebel Qiang people in Hanyang County also surrendered to the prefect Fu Xie. Some incidents made the Qiang people outside Laoya Gorge fear and uneasy. At this time, let alone Dong Buyi could regain Yunwu City by launching a strong attack, as long as Dong Mao asked to surrender, tens of thousands of Qiang people who were frightened and uneasy would definitely put down their weapons and surrender.
The servants at home were unwilling to go to the plateau for thousands of miles, and Li also wanted to go to Didao to see the young and old Li family. While packing up the miscellaneous items, he spoke with Dong Mao who was playing with his daughter Dong Bai.
"Not only is the road closer from Longxi County to Chang'an Sanfu, Yi Niang can also go back to Didao to take a look..."
Dong Mao just turned his head to look at her, then hugged his daughter and sat in his arms, while holding her cow with her daughter.
"Han Sui killed Bian Zhang and Li Wenhou, which then caused the Qiang people in various tribes to surrender. Don't think this is a good thing. If your uncle is smart enough to take advantage of this time, he should give up everything and escape into the Sanfu of Chang'an, otherwise...Didao's Li family will be massacred and exterminated..."
Li had given up his clothes at some point, sat on the edge of the bed with a nervous look on his face, and his somewhat thin palms clutched his arm tightly...
"I don't know how many times I've told you that your Li family is all promiscuous. Such people cannot be touched at all. Whoever touches them will be in trouble..."
"Mr...."
"Oh... let's do this. You and your uncle went to send a letter to him and asked him to resign from his official position and take his family to Chang'an. Although he can't be rich, he can still save his family's life. As for other things... don't think too much."
Dong Mao said again: "When the Qiang people are uneasy, we can force people to defeat the thieves in Yunwu City, but this will also make Han Sui even more worried about the Hehuang Valley. He will think that we are a great threat and will give up the court and attack the Hehuang Valley. In order to avoid roads and to visit those desperate ghosts, hundreds of thousands of people will face more dangers. We cannot do such things! Once we do it, Huwa will not say much. How do we Lintao villagers and soldiers view us? How do we view our father?"
"My father was suppressed by the court, and Huwa was helping him. Dad was able to support such a huge stall. But you should also know that the generals under Huwa are basically from Lintao. If the generals below are really angry, it will be difficult for Huwa to talk about peace from it..."
"Okay, there's no need to mention this kind of thing. Although the road to the plateau is a little far, there are soldiers escorting them all the way, there are not many dangers on the road. If you are really worried about Bai'er, it's okay to keep Bai'er by Da Ya's side."
Li hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded silently.
"Yi Niang...Yi Niang listens to her husband..."
Dong Mao nodded silently. After so many years of marriage, he knew what she was worried about, but some things were absolutely impossible to do. What's more, after Fatty Li took the money to send his mother off with the villagers, he was extremely repulsive in his heart that Li's family was unwilling to take care of anything about the Li family.
After receiving Dong Zhuo's transfer order, Dong Mao was a little hesitant. He was not hesitating about the power of the "major general" of Hehuang Qiang, but hesitating about leaving Hehuang Valley. He was worried about whether Da Ya, San Ya and the others could suppress the Hehuang Valley and whether they could suppress the generals of Lintao below. Even though he knew that Lintao's generals might be very rebellious, he was still worried, worried that his brother's family would fall into danger because of his departure...
Dong Mao knew the nature of Liangzhou people. After Dong Hu took away all the generals, he did not dare to be careless. In the past one or two years, he had only made disruptive and mobilized several times. He was worried that the generals below would have thoughts that they should not have. The selection of generals strictly followed the rules set by Dong Hu. No matter which one was at a slight mistake in "not following military orders", he was kicked aside without any use. It was even more severe than when Dong Hu was in the Hehuang Valley. This severity also made many people privately dissatisfied, but Da Ya, San Ya, and the hundreds of brothers and sisters who stayed in the Hehuang Valley all had no reservations for support. Even if others were dissatisfied, they could not do anything.
If you want to control the generals in command, you cannot let the generals in command truly control the soldiers. It is not that anyone is not loyal enough, but because the army is a knife.
The Han Dynasty's method of controlling generals was to prevent the general from directly controlling too many soldiers. Even the top generals, even the powerful generals could only directly control all the soldiers and horses in Luoyang. How many soldiers are there in Luoyang? The fifth camps of the Northern Army, the palace Hu Benlang, Yulinlang, and the twelve city gate soldiers, all the soldiers had only 15,000 soldiers and horses together. What's more, the emperor could not let the general control all the soldiers and horses in Luoyang. As for the generals at the level of the Central Army, there were only 2,000 regular soldiers.
No matter how coquettish the Han Dynasty was, the generals actually had few soldiers and horses, at most only 2,000 regular soldiers. Only when the war came, would they temporarily control tens of thousands, tens of thousands or more soldiers. Moreover, they were recruited under the emperor's instructions and would be disbanded after the war. They were temporarily recruited during the war and disbanded after the war, so that the generals could not directly command the soldiers for a long time.
If you cannot command troops for a long time, and you cannot control soldiers for a long time, you will die even if you rebel!
The Han Dynasty strictly prohibited generals from leading troops for a long time to control the generals. Dong Hu took another path and took some responsibilities by separating the generals from the generals, such as the number "one, two, five" combat deputy generals (deputy teams) in the army could only command soldiers to fight, and the "left and right" deputy generals (deputy teams) were in charge of military discipline, logistics and supplies, and military farming soldiers were divided into two types: regular reserves and reserve soldiers. Needless to say, the reserve soldiers were not under the jurisdiction of the generals, but the Sima of each training camp, and the left and right commanders were under the jurisdiction of the commanders.
The generals should separate their powers to avoid the generals' powers being too great. These are not enough. They should also strictly implement the promotion system and avoid bastards who do not comply with military orders as much as possible.
When Dong Hu was in the Hehuang Valley, he might use other means to hit a group of bastards instead of being too violent. Because he had absolute authority, he trained all the middle and senior generals under him. Except for the original mercenaries in Lintao, the rest were captured by him. The lower-level soldiers were a little afraid of him from the bottom. As long as they were given some treatment they should be treated well, they could easily gain the conscience of the soldiers, and Dong Mao would lose the majesty in the army. In addition to the bastard Li did in Lintao, the generals of Lintao were a little resentful to the Dong family in their hearts. It was extremely difficult for Dong Mao to really make Dong Buyi obedient.
Dong Hu had absolute prestige in Dongbuyi. He had absolute prestige, whether among the generals of Lintao or among all the prisoners below, he had absolute prestige. Dong Mao did not have this prestige, and even rejected many Lintao generals because of the Li family. However, with Dong Hu's support, the army had to bow down and obey. Even so, some generals left behind in the Hehuang Valley also ran to Da Ya from time to time to complain.
Dong Mao was a black-faced military law, and Da Ya was a white-faced comforting him. Dong Hu left the Hehuang Valley for a year or two, and the Hehuang Valley was still calm and peaceful, but Dong Mao was a little worried. If he left, Da Ya, who was gentle, could suppress a mess...
With concern, Dong Mao left the Hehuang Valley with his wife and children, and led himself to the east along the grazing road of Ganlang Valley. However, he did not know that while he was going to the plateau south, his brother Dong Hu also bid farewell to his wife and children, leading 30,000 Han army cavalry that had been trained for only half a year and 10,000 military farm soldiers who drove donkeys and mules to the north, and a 40,000 army dragged countless sledges out of the Great Wall.
While Dong Hu personally led 40,000 troops to the Great Wall, the three Xianbei troops of the "East, Central and West" of the Danhan Mountain, a total of 70,000 troops went south, Liaoxi, Youbeiping, Yuyang, Shanggu, Dai County, and wars were everywhere. The 800-mile governor Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, sent emergency letters to Luoyang day and night. The civil and military officials of the foreign court, who were quarreling with the eunuchs in the inner court, had to turn their attention to Youzhou.
The importance of Youzhou is unquestionable. While the court was arguing about how to deal with the invasion of the "100,000" Xianbei people, the letters sent by Guo Sheng day and night were sent to the emperor again...
"The old slave Guo Sheng wrote to say... The child wanted to personally lead 40,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantrymen to attack Khanshan Mountain. What do you think should you do?"
Nearly 100,000 Xianbei were heard from Youzhou and wanted to go south to invade. The whole court was blown up, and there was no quarrel yet. After hearing the emperor's words, they were all a little confused. They all looked at the new Situ Xu Xiang. Others may not know about this. As Situ Xu Xiang, it is absolutely impossible for Xu Xiang to know.
Chapter completed!