The military was full of military affairs. Shi Zhen wanted to lead Su Zun, Xu Yan and other young generals to travel to the mountains and rivers of Xiangying and other places on the spot, but the military affairs were busy, so it was extremely difficult for him to escape from Ruzhou for four or five days.

It was confirmed that the main forces of the Shenwu Army stationed in Nanyang Prefecture boarded the ship and embarked on the journey to reinforce Huainan. After Shi Zhen met with Tang Tiande, he turned back along the Tang Baihe River and left for Nanyang Prefecture Zhibiyang.

Biyang was originally Tangzhou Ye, and at this time it was Nanyang Prefecture Ye, and it was also one of the most important water and land terminals in the Nanyang Basin (Bishui-Tanghe-Hanshui).

Therefore, no matter how far away the Duke's Mansion of Runan County, whether Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze and other officials of the Nanyang Prefecture, and the gentry and gentry in Biyangli were disliked, Lifeng Hall still set up a shop in Biyang City and built a cargo warehouse near the Bishui Wharf in the south of the city to ensure that the large-scale commercial goods in Chushan were successfully transported out of Tongbai Mountain and transferred to Jingxiang Prefectures and counties.

Shi Zhen went out of Beijing to travel to Jingxiang and other places more than ten years ago. After passing by Biyang, the appearance of Biyang City has not changed much in the past ten years. The Nanyang Basin is rich, and the place can intercept more wealth. The city is often repaired, and the chaos of Tongbai Mountain bandits did not affect Biyang City. The brick-covered city is quietly located in the mist on the north bank of Bishui, and the city tower seems to be hidden.

However, when the carriages and horses arrived at the city of Biyang, even though Biyang was not directly invaded by the enemy, the wounds brought by the war were exposed in the refugees who lived in the thatched hut in the cold winter:

There were ragged and skinny refugees everywhere.

Someone lie on the side of the road and flood for a breath.

Looking at the heavily guarded chariots and horses passing by, everyone looked over with numbness, without any fear of being afraid to avoid them, and did not dare to come forward to disturb them; those who were a little more courageous would just lift up the broken pottery fragments that were not like bowls and jars, revealing the humble and pitying look of begging.

The water source comes from the peaks on the western slope of Tongbai Mountain. There is no ice-cold period, but the cold season has not passed, and the river water is still cold and biting.

At this time, from a distance, many refugees went into the water to catch fish and shrimp to satisfy their hunger, but they did not lay out their fishing tools and had little income.

Some people had already rested exhausted and fell into the cold and bone-blowing river water. After a few thrusts, they could not float out of the river again.

The left and right just looked at all this coldly, and no one wanted to wade through deep water to save him.

"We went south along the Tang River, and there were many fields along the way that were deserted and uncultivated. Why didn't Nanyang Prefecture organize these hungry people to farm, allowing thousands of hungry people to gather under the city and wait for death?" Su Zun asked in surprise.

Biyang City is located on the banks of the Bishui tributary of the Tang River. This time they went south along the Tang River. Along the way, they saw many refugees heading south with Zuo Xiaosheng's generals who had retreated to Xiangyang south. Most of these refugees were afraid that Ruzhou would not defend, and Chushan intended to open the gap and allow the wealthy families in Kunzhou Township, Ruzhou Township. Although they were in a mess, they had just embarked on the difficult journey of escape and their situation did not look bad.

The earliest group of refugees gathered at the city of Biyang were fled south from Zheng Xu, Caiying and other places during the First Bianliang Defense War. They could not make a living and completely became displaced and hungry people. The situation was naturally much more tragic.

At this time, a team of people who looked like yamen runners were walking along the riverside with two ox carts. The ox carts were piled with dozens of ragged and thin corpses. I don’t know if they had never withstood the cold and frozen to death, or had they had never withstood the hunger and starvation...

These situations brought real shock to Su Chong, Xu Yan and others.

People from Hehuai, Heluo and even more distant Hedong and Shaanxi went south to escape war. Most of them would pass through Mount Chu, and many refugees were stranded in Mount Chu. However, even those who were transiting, porridge farms would be arranged along the road of Chu Mountain for relief. The remaining refugees and hungry people would be arranged by the township department to join the village in a timely manner.

Xu Yan, Su Zun and the others have seen a large number of refugees and hungry people, but they have never imagined such a scene under Biyang City.

"Don't say that the enemy soldiers have not invaded Nanyang yet, there are only a few gentry. The rich families are preparing for the future and fleeing south with their families. Even if some of the fields have been abandoned by the old master, most of the deserted beaches and valleys we have seen along the way are regarded as a masterful place in Nanyang Prefecture, and they cannot be allowed to be seized by the hungry people at will."

Shi Zhen sat in the carriage and looked at the refugees and hungry people on the banks of the Bishui River, explaining to Su Chong and Xu Yan,

"Nanyang Prefecture adheres to this point. On the one hand, it is the Nanyang Prefecture Office and the various county government offices. At present, it is mainly dependent on the local gentry and wealthy households who occupy the land and are responsible for collecting and raising grain and fodder, and needs to maintain the order of the Lijia. Most of the Nanyang Prefecture Army recruited from below, as well as the service required for building cities and villages and post roads. It is also mainly dependent on the organization and leadership of the households of local gentry and wealthy households. On the other hand, many officials of all sizes of Nanyang Prefecture, most of the families are

There are hundreds of acres of grain and thousands of acres of grain and land that can benefit. The majority even occupy tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. How could they tolerate others to do things that harm their own interests? Even though Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze, Cheng Lunying and others are vacant officials, they are all rich and gentry in their hometowns. Although Jin Zhuang Cheng and other scholars from Nanyang, although they are not in Nanyang, their tribesmen are all there, how could they indulge Nanyang Prefecture to organize refugees and hungry people to share their territory? Various interests are intertwined, and Nanyang Prefecture is destined to follow the old land system. This is also Chushan and

The deepest part of the gentry in Nanyang. Think carefully about it, how did Chushan deal with the fields in Huaiyuan, Xinyang and other places in recent years? First, the areas under the jurisdiction of Chushan Xingying are not only rich, but also ordinary people. As long as they do not stay and participate in the fight against the invasion of the Hu people in the south, their land and houses are all abandoned and collected as officials. Second, the gentry is rich and the slopes, mountains, rivers and valleys that have not been cultivated or managed in the past are not allowed to be seized privately, and they are regarded as wasteland and collected as officials. Third, the gentry villages that still remain in Chushan, including the gentry in Xingying

As well as the officers of the prefecture and county government offices, tenants are employed, and tenants are strictly prohibited from renting more than 30%; and all land occupied by Dingkou, the per capita part of more than 20 acres should also bear more responsibility to resist the barbarians, and two times of grain tax should be imposed to make up for the lack of military use. Basically, all land within the area of ​​Chushan is either used to resettle refugees, hungry people, or the generals who fight bloody battles can get a small part of the land to cultivate and maintain food and clothing, or pay excess tenant rent to make up for the lack of military use, which makes Chushan have a different scene..."

Because Chushan is still the territory of Dayue, and Chushan generals and officials are also ministers of Dayue, Xu Huai wanted to avoid the stalemate of the relationship with the center. He was determined to implement many new laws and regulations in Chushan, saying that it was a stopgap strategy to resist the barbarians, and many principles were avoided too thoroughly. Tang Tiande was very skilled in handling the affairs of the Shanzhai Township Office, which was related to his origin in the Tongbai Mountain clan and his years of dealing with all kinds of people in Tongbai Mountain.

Of course, over the years, he was truly convinced by Xu Huai's skills and bravery and good at fighting, and was willing to use it for Xu Huai, but he had not seriously considered many deeper principles.

Now Shi Zhen is deliberately mentioning Su Zhong, Xu Xian, and then the rising stars, before he can explain some things thoroughly. Tang Tiande's audience was also very insightful.

Shi Zhen continued: "...Now the gentry of Biyang is afraid that Chushan would have the idea of ​​occupying the magpie's nest. Are they worried that the Chushan army could not defend Fangcheng Pass and Nanyang Prefecture? Are they worried that the Chushan army would be unjust? In fact, if the Chushan army really could not defend Ru Cai and other places, it would be natural to withdraw from Nanyang. The court would not stop it, and the Runan County Duke's Office should not stop it. The Nanyang Prefecture and the wealth of the gentry should not be welcomed, right? Why are they worried? They are nothing more than worried that the land system they held on the profit would be destroyed and destroyed by Chushan. These also determine that if we want to make the Nan.

Officials of all sizes and local gentry of Yangfu, all of them, can cooperate with us very well, and they cannot be easily achieved by knowing the righteousness! Chushan has gradually managed more prefectures and counties in recent years, and it has also implemented a system of township officials, which requires a large number of officials to serve. There are also a large number of scholars among the refugees fleeing south. However, after recruiting them, in addition to studying the administration of officials and many new regulations of Chushan, they must also be incorporated into the camp to obtain first-level merits before they can be formally appointed. The root of this is still many stubborn old thoughts, unable to experience life and death, and cannot truly feel the tragic tragedy of the country and hundreds of millions of people being trampled and slaughtered by the barbarians. It is difficult to dilute and change..."

"...Don't think that Jieshou can do this easily. It is all behind this that the extraordinary methods and outstanding insights of Jieshou. For example, Xu Wei's grandson is in Jingnan, and he is still helpless in the Lake Corps. He wants to suppress the enemy without soldiers, and wants to ease the situation without money, food and land. He has not settled the situation in Jingnan. The news of the Lake Corps is getting bigger and bigger, but it is not that Xu Wei's grandson is incapable, nor is it that Xu Wei is not loyal to the court. Many things cannot be done just by wanting to do. You must learn Jieshou's method of using troops, and don't simply stare at those superficial techniques. These are the fundamentals."

Shi Zhen saw a group of people waiting under the city of Biyangnan. It must be that the officials sent by the Nanyang Prefecture Office to greet him, so he suspended his teachings to Xu Yan, Su Chong and others. He did not act any way and staggered off the carriage and walked down the city with Tang Tiande and others.

In terms of the establishment of the court, there was no difference between the Chushan camps in which Ru and Cai military officials and the merger of Tang and Deng prefectures.

Shi Zhen was awarded the title of the Chief of the Chushan Army Camp from the fifth rank, and his rank was slightly lower than that of Zhou Yunze, the governor of Nanyang Prefecture, not to mention that he was compared with Ning Ci, who was a bachelor of Wenying Palace and an expert in Nanyang Prefecture.

However, no matter how the gentry and officials in Nanyang rejected Chushan deep in their hearts, they did not dare to be negligent with Shi Zhen, who represented Chushan to discuss the joint defense of the enemy.

Ning Ci would not have been condescending to go out to greet the city in person, and the magistrate Zhou Yunze did not interfere in the training of the government army and local defense.
Chapter completed!