Chapter 15 Assassination
Yang Hao received the good news of breaking the Giant Stone Fort after midnight. He had just concluded the reconstruction plan of the Tiger Camp with Ling Tong, Li Tong, Zhuang Yunqing and Yu Chong. The Tiger Camp of the 12th Battalion completely ruined Zeng Chongyang. People's hearts were dispersed and the army had no fighting spirit. The reconstruction plan was drafted by Yang Hao himself. It was easy to get a general in a thousand troops, and the selection of an officer was the key to reconstruction.
All officers in the Tiger Camp were dismissed on the spot, breaking the limitations of age and qualifications, and relying on talents and morality, and re-electing. Those who are not sufficient will be selected from the entire army. After the officers are selected, they are not in a hurry to recruit soldiers, but ask them to form an officer team and go back to the military school to study for a year. No matter how high your original official position, how deep your qualifications, and how great your contributions are, you must start from soldiers and students again.
Ling Tong suggested adding another item to the plan: the position of officers in the officers' team is not fixed for the time being, and it is necessary to make a re-adjustment when graduation based on their performance in the military school. This forces the officers to not relax at all during their studies. Yang Hao adopted this suggestion.
After reading the good news, Yang Hao felt relaxed. While asking the book to draft the commendation order, he sent someone to notify Zhang Huchen and Soe to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Luoyanchuan Military Reclamation Farm in the south of the city on time tomorrow. Soe suffered heavy losses due to a single advance in Feng'an, causing Yang Hao to surround the Guiyi Army and disrupted Yang Hao's deployment of encirclement and annihilation of Guiyi Army. Afterwards, the Military and Political Department wrote a major mistake to him and suggested that he be dismissed as the commander-in-chief of the military commander.
Yang Hao agreed to remember his demerit, but he did not agree to dismissal. After retreating from Feng'an to Yanchuan, Soe changed his negative attitude towards military reclamation and actively urged his soldiers to build Luoyanchuan Farm. The newly completed Luoyanchuan Farm has 500 hectares of arable land and the canal is about twenty miles long. The cultivated farmland can be planted with millet, wheat, hemp, beans, and wheat.
Soe commissioned several agricultural professors from the Economics School to formulate the "Fengzhou Luoyanchuan Irrigation Water Rules" based on the "Water Ministry Style" and combined with the local climate. Because it is detailed and easy to operate, it was approved by Zhang Huchen as a blueprint for various military farms for use.
After this effort, Soe gradually emerged from the shadow of Feng'an's failure. Before the Luoyanchuan Farm was completed, he invited Yang Hao and Zhang Huchen to attend the celebration. Yang Hao did not want to come. First, he was busy with official business and had no time to withdraw, and second, Zhang Huchen made great efforts in promoting military reclamation, and he did not want to steal Zhang Huchen's limelight. He had already decided to send Ling Tong as a representative of the army to cheer, but because of the good news from the Giant Stone Fort, he changed his mind halfway. He decided to go to Luoyanchuan to inspect the newly completed farm in person.
Take a boat from the south of Feng'an City to the upstream, and the Luoyan River is forty miles away. However, in winter, the northwest wind blows fiercely, and it is hard to move against the wind. Yang Hao crosses the river from the south of the city, and then transfers to the carriage westward. The reason why he does not ride a horse but rides a carriage. He wanted to take the opportunity to check whether the newly built road along Henan is flat and see whether the newly established stations on both sides of the road, the road protection station and tax card are operating normally.
The road along Henan Road is nearly completed, with a width of three meters, and two carriages can be parallel unobstructed. The roadbed is crushed with gravel, and the road surface is covered with fine stones. There is an inn every twenty miles on both sides of the road, and a road protection station is a road protection station every ten miles. The main work of the road protection station is to maintain the road, and it also carries the security patrols on both sides of the road. The road protection station is mostly composed of disabled retired soldiers. They also receive military pay, and the amount is even higher than that of active soldiers. Road protection stations with family can also apply for a public housing to the Military and Political Bureau.
The Public Administration will determine the location and area of the public housing based on the applicant's actual situation, equip the necessary furniture, and be responsible for the annual maintenance of the house. The applicant does not need to pay any fees, but it needs to bear the daily maintenance of the house and truthfully declare changes when the family population increases or decreases.
The road to Xiao Chang'an has started construction, and a small village with hundreds of families has formed at the intersection of Yanhe Road. There are several tea shops on the Yanhe Road in the north of the village. Ling Tong suggested drinking a bowl of tea before leaving. Yang Hao was also a little thirsty, so he agreed happily. The two found a tea shop to sit down. Seeing that the things in the tea shop were newly purchased, they guessed that they might be opened soon. Yang Hao asked the old man who was the name of the tea tea, and replied to Xiannv Mountain. Yang Hao was about to ask about the purpose of the place name. Ling Tong smiled slightly and pointed to a small hill in the southwest and said, "Master, please see, what does that mountain look like?"
Yang Hao looked carefully and didn't realize anything was wrong.
"Does it look like a girl lying on her back? Do those two peaks look like a girl's perky breasts?" After his reminder, Yang Hao suddenly realized and laughed: "It's really a magical and vivid." Ling Tong said: "This mountain is called Xinnu Mountain. Legend has it that the Emperor of Heaven is naughty and active, and he went downstairs to travel. Seeing the beautiful mountains and rivers here, he lingered. The Emperor of Heaven learned that he had left the palace privately, and was furious and released his thousand-mile eyes to find her trace. The Emperor of Heaven heard this and quickly transformed into a mountain and avoided the thousand-mile eyes to search for her. But she forgot one thing: gods can turn into living things such as flowers, birds, fish and insects, but they cannot turn into dead objects such as earth, wood, mountains and rocks. Once it changes, it will lose the Genshin Impact, and it will be difficult to turn back into the true body. The fairy stayed like this, and lie down for thousands of years."
Yang Hao smiled and said, "I seemed to have heard from some people about this story."
"Customers, please have tea." A young girl in beard stood at the table with two bowls of hot tea.
Yang Hao glanced at her, and the little girl lowered her head, looking very shy. Ling Tong saw Yang Hao staring at the girl with her eyes curled up, smiled slightly, and turned around to see Dr. Tea go to make tea.
"Customer, please have tea." The girl's face turned red when she was seen by Yang Hao, and she urged her timidly.
Yang Hao took the tea bowl and asked casually: "You are from Chang'an with the accent?" The little girl nodded and replied crisply: "I grew up in Chang'an. My father had lost money because he did business in Chang'an, so he had to open a tea shop here to make a living."
Yang Hao sneered: "Your boots are inlaid with three gems, each worth hundreds of gold. Why not sell them and go to the hotel in the city to run them, and you can suffer less from wind and frost." The girl in Hu subconsciously looked at her boots and forced her to smile and said, "The guest has missed it. This is not a real gem, it is imitated by craftsmen. It costs fifteen cents per one, which is fake." The old man who was boiling water changed his face when he heard this.
Ling Tong suddenly realized something was wrong and shouted: "Master, be careful of fraud!"
Before he finished speaking, the little girl slapped the tray with a "whisper" and slammed the tray towards Yang Hao. With a raised leg, she pulled out a dagger with a blue light from her boots and stabbed it at Yang Hao. Yang Hao sideways over the tray, not very panic. Seeing that the dagger was about to stab at his chest, he turned his wrist and poured a bowl of hot tea on the girl. The girl dodged and dodged. After a while of dissipation, Yang Hao had already raised his foot and kicked her dagger off.
The girl was stunned. She didn't seem to have expected Yang Hao to be so good. When she realized that she could not kill her opponent, she took out a pill and threw it into her mouth.
Zhu Qi appeared behind her like a ghost, patted her neck gently, and the pill jumped out of her mouth. Two plainclothes guards grabbed her arms and pressed her on the table. Seeing this, the old man boiled water did not come up in one breath and fainted from fear. A guard wanted to capture the old man, Yang Hao shouted: "Don't make things difficult for him, he was forced."
The girl in Hu was so calm that she gritted her teeth and said nothing. Yang Hao looked around her carefully and asked Zhu Qi: "Is she the killer of Mosha?"
If you want to know if a person is a killer of Mosha, the easiest way is to untie the killer's clothes and see if there is any plum blossom tattoo on her abdomen. However, in full view of everyone, Yang Hao didn't want to humiliate her like this.
"It's not Mosha's killer, she is Xiao Qingyi's man." Zhu Qi's scar face looked very strange at any time. But this person's heart was open and honest. This is why Yang Hao refused to pursue his faults and used him more.
Ling Tong heard of the name "Little Qingyi". It was a huge and mysterious organization controlled by the eunuch Guo Qin.
"Take it back for a good interrogation, be sure to let her say something." The captured girl stared at Yang Hao with a grim accent, but her eyes looked disdainful.
"I understand." Zhu Qi said two words gently.
The opening ceremony of Luoyanchuan Military Reclamation Farm was simple and enthusiastic. This is the style that Yang Hao liked. He should celebrate the joyful events, but don’t spend too much money. He should still be careful when living his life. After the celebration, Yang Hao, accompanied by Zhang Huchen, Ling Tong, Soe and others, inspected the entire farm. The newly reclaimed farmland, newly built ditches, and new farmhouses that rose from the ground were all delightful and inspiring.
Yang Hao instructed to plant more trees around the farm and on both sides of the main road to form several windproof forests. The northwest was strong and the wind was strong, so Master Feng should be prevented from robbing grain.
After reading the military reclamation farm, the group came to a settlement of refugees. Military reclamation can strengthen the army but cannot enrich the people. Civil reclamation is the long-term solution to Fengzhou's poverty. While the battalions are carrying out military reclamation, the governor's office is also actively recruiting refugees to reclaim wasteland. These settlements are built for refugees. Most of them rely on military reclamation farms and borrow roads and ditches from military reclamation farms. This can save costs on one hand, and it is also convenient to gradually transfer the military reclamation farmland to civilians when the time is right.
There are seven refugee settlements near Luoyanchuan, with 38 households and 129 people. The ones with their families have built their own houses with the help of the army, while the bachelors live in several rows of single houses. Yang Hao came to a refugee home. The owner of the family was named Liu Mingxin, his ancestral home, and his hometown suffered disasters for years. The government not only did not provide pensions but also increased taxes. The family really couldn't survive, so they had to wander around with their wives, children and mothers, and survived by working for short-term workers. I heard that Fengzhou recruited refugees to reclaim land, and did not pay taxes within three years, and also paid settlement fees. The land was owned by the reclaimers for five consecutive years. Therefore, he brought his family to Fengzhou. After inspecting four or five farms, he finally decided to settle down in Luoyanchuan.
Liu Xin pointed to a green wheat field not far away and said, "The water and soil here are good. It only takes two years to grow soil and turn it into mature soil. Three years without taxation can make the people take root. Five years later, Fengzhou will be worthy of its name and become a state of prosperity. By then, all Shangguans come to my house again, and the old man will have good wine and food to entertain."
When Zhang Huchen saw Liu Xin's wife erect, he joked: "It seems that Fengzhou's water and soil are nourishing people. After drinking the water from Fengzhou, I will spread my branches and leaves so soon."
When Liu News heard Zhang Huchen calling himself an old man, he waved his hand in panic: "If you kill the old man, how dare you call him brother to the governor? Sin, sin." Zhang Huchen smiled and said: "Our Fengzhou loves the people, the people love the officials, and the officials and the people are one family. What's wrong with calling you brother?"
When Liu Xin's 70-year-old blind mother heard this, she tsk her mouth and said, "There are only officials who bully the people in the world, but no one loves the people? Only when an official asks you, he will say good things and forget everything afterwards."
Liu Xin was shocked when he heard this. His wife hurriedly knelt in front of her mother-in-law and kowtowed her to stop talking. Yang Hao laughed bitterly after hearing this. Liu Xin didn't know why he was laughing, and he was panicked for a moment, and even knelt down and apologized. The crowd was so fooled that they hurriedly helped him up.
Yang Hao held his rough hands and said, "What my mother-in-law said is the truth. Nowadays, there are eunuchs and chaos in the Tang Dynasty, and there are separatist vassals and powerful enemies. It is an indisputable fact that officials in Fengzhou can be honest and self-reliant and protect the people. It is useless to just say it, and it is useless to rely on the self-discipline of officials. It also depends on your supervision."
Liu Xin didn't understand the meaning of this. His blind mother sneered: "This must be a high-ranking official. I heard that you are also a person who wants to do a career. However, the old woman dared to ask Shangguan Yiyan: All officials are powerful and powerful, are they willing to let the people supervise? Not to mention the noble governor, general, even a minor official has three or five idle men as helpers, can our people beat them? The government has swords, guns and prisons, but our people are bare-handed."
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and everyone's eyes fell on Yang Hao. Yang Hao thought for a moment: "Everything in the world is nothing more than the word "reason". Officials and people must talk about this reason. The people are unreasonable, and the government has a constable and prison to deal with him. The government is unreasonable - then the people will deal with him with their feet."
"What if the government stole the people's feet?"
"Then use your hands to create a rebellion for the government. If the officials force the people to rebel, the crime lies with the officials, not with the people."
The old woman smiled: "It's hard for Shangguan to say these words. It seems that we are right in Fengzhou."
Everyone was relieved when they heard this.
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Chapter completed!