Chapter 1375
Ying Yi startled: "Why?"
Zheng Yunzhi asked him: "Where is Yuzhou County Magistrate?"
"Dead. "Ying Yi said.
Yuzhou County Magistrate died in the military chaos last night.
Zheng Yunzhi nodded: "There was war in Yuzhou, and County Magistrate died while guarding the land. It died well. However, Nanyang Prefecture has 13 counties. Except Ye County and Yuzhou, there are eleven counties left and Wuyang is vacant. Regardless, Yushi counties. If you send troops to take these ten counties, what will you do about the County Magistrate in ten counties? Kill them all?"
He looked directly at Ying Yi and pointed out: "Now I'm pulling Strongly against a crazy tide', the emperor must commend it. As you said, the prefect of Nanyang can’t run without mentioning the governor of Henan. At that time, if you just use a little trick or hit or pull, it’s easy to take the whole land of Nanyang in your hands. You Now that soldiers are sent to occupy, and if you kill someone, you have to kill people."
Speaking of this, he said earnestly: "You must rely on scholar to govern a place. You kill people and seize the city for no reason, is it a thief? A famous weapon? Do you want it? All County Magistrates in all counties are scholars. If you kill it hard, scholars in the world will fight against you. Do you still want to do your great cause?" Ying Yi was silent for a moment and said: "But time is not waiting. ..."
Zheng Yunzhi laughed: "I don't know why you are so urgent, but it is too fragile, and sending troops is not a good strategy. In my opinion, you first occupy Wuyang, and the other ten counties Don’t worry about it. The thief is in Kaifeng, and counts several hundred thousand million. County Magistrates will not fail to see it. You don’t care about him. Due to the situation of the thief, they still have to rely on you. Waiting for the Imperial Court to be appointed. You’re right, it’s not too late to come to the district again."
Seeing that Ying Yi still did not answer, Zheng Yunzhi sighed: "You are sending troops, killing people and taking the city. You have to sort out the ten counties, and you don’t have to. A lot of time? If so, it’s better to keep it as it is. With your current size, you can’t digest the entire Nanyang Mansion."
When Ying Yi heard this, she finally sighed: "Sir Father priceless advice . Probably because I was too urgent. That's all, let’s take the three counties of Yexian, Yuzhou, and Wuyang first."
Ying Yi doesn't care about what is too easy to break. But Ying Yi did not have the belly to swallow Nanyang in one bite--no one could use him.
This is why he changed his mind.
Famous devices are just right, he really wants them. But he also expected that even if he did a little too much, the Imperial Court would not help him. As long as he doesn't pull the pole to stand up to the top of the mountain and raise the flag by himself, the Imperial Court will ignore it.
However, Zheng Yunzhi is also serious, and there is a reason. Since no one is available, so be it for now.
"So..."
Ying Yi thought about it for a moment and said: "The governance of the three counties of Yexian, Wuyang, and Yuzhou will be entrusted to Sir Father. I will wait a moment. Let Zhou Li lead his troops to Wuyang."
Since Ying Yi has changed his mind, there is no need for Ying Yi to go out in person. Since Wuyang rushed to kill the King of Tang in Nanyang last year, he lost the County Magistrate and just occupied it.
He said: "It's only June, and I can grow another crop of grain. This is the most important thing. Sir Father first stabilizes the people and organizes commoners to open up wasteland. My son-in-law wants to reorganize soldiers and horses, I'm afraid there is none. Take care of time."
Zheng Yunzhi smiled and stroked his beard: "You can rest assured."
Ying Yi nodded.
Although the fighting in Nanyang ceased, Ying Yi could not relax. The thieves in Kaifeng in the north are the big trouble. He needs to reorganize his troops and horses in the shortest possible time to wait for the troops to be deployed northward.
For this reason, even the branches under the Origin Qi program that have been opened for a long time cannot be implemented for the time being.
Farming is of course good, but it requires a stable environment. If you don't drive away the thieves, you can't talk about farming.
Nanyang cannot be digested in a short time. Some of Ying Yi's plans need to change with time.
Then came the reorganization of soldiers and horses.
Among the over 40,000 prisoners in Yuzhou and Baihe Valley, more than 8,000 basically qualified were screened out. The remaining more than 32,000 prisoners are demoted to laborers and will contribute to Ying Yi's farming plan.
Of the more than 8,000 people selected, He Yingyi’s original more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, totaling 11,500. This one thousand five hundred people are the objects of reorganization.
Because there is no one under him, it is temporarily unable to select enough trustworthy thousands of officials, so the reorganization of soldiers and horses no longer follows the Great Ming military system. The original 3,000 soldiers and horses were scattered, and the selected 8,000 soldiers were mixed together, and 10,000 of them were divided into four parts, each with 2,000 and 500 people.
One of them, Ying Yi, is self-administered, and the other three are called Zhou Li, Zhu Bingkun, and Zheng Wu.
The remaining 1,500 people are not accepted at night, and the general is Zhang Shi.
During the reorganization process, Ying Yi made detailed arrangements for the various branches of arms. Except for the non-receipt at night, the four troops are temporarily divided into four battalions of spearmen, archers, artillery, and cavalry.
Each unit has 1,000 spearmen, and the other three battalions have 500 people.
The battalion officers are selected and promoted from the more than 3,000 soldiers and horses enlisted in Crescent Valley.
Ministers and battalions are different from the Great Ming military system. However, under the battalions, the hundred households, general banners, and small banners are still the standard.
Only the establishment of a hundred households was reduced to one hundred, and twelve people were cut.
One hundred households with one hundred people, one general banner with fifty people, and one small banner with ten people.
Five small banners are one general banner, two general banners are one hundred households, five hundred households are one battalion, and four battalions are one battalion. With the addition of 1,500 people at night, the 11,500 people were reorganized.
After this battle, Ying Yi is not lacking in armaments. It only took two days to reorganize the soldiers and horses, and then assemble them neatly.
As a result, Ying Yi's command has a total of 4,000 spearmen, 2,000 archers, artillery, and cavalry, plus 1,500 at night.
Then Ying Yi raised the banner of recruitment in Yuzhou and Wuyang to recruit auxiliary officials and craftsmen.
The assistant officer requires a scholar who can count on literacy and is mainly responsible for logistics and military performance evaluation. Needless to say, craftsmen can also be considered as logistics, building and repairing weapons and armor for the army.
It took five days to complete the selection of auxiliary officials.
Nanyang is located in Central Plains, with many scholars. But many scholars are not qualified, and countless slick and pedantic. Sun Xiucai and Zheng Yunzhi discussed detailed methods, and only then selected some assistant officials who were able to calculate and were stable and not pedantic.
The scholar in this era is a privileged class. But the dynasty's end, scholar is not necessarily better. Maybe people like people who disdain military assistants, but the talents of overwhelming majority do not have that confidence.
Although the number and ability of the auxiliary officers selected by the recruitment still make Ying Yi quite criticized, there is no way for the time being, but the framework can only be set up first.
As for craftsmen, it is much simpler than selecting auxiliary officials. There are few craftsmen in the Great Ming Dynasty as comfortable as they have ever lived. Ying Yi’s record has been spread, and then the salary is displayed. Craftsmen from Wuyang and Yuzhou flocked to Nanyang, who even heard the wind. Artisans from several counties also came to apply.
This time the harvest was not small. A total of more than a thousand people were recruited by various craftsmen, all of which were sent to Fang Chengshan by Ying Yi.