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  Chapter 185 183 [Tiger General]

   Ji'an City, Military Academy.

  The scope of powers and responsibilities of the Military Academy includes: recruiting soldiers, organizing and training the army, taking charge of military registration, leading troops in battle, assessing performance, promoting officers, and selecting generals.

  Compared to the eunuched Mansion of the Five Armies of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Han's Military Academy has more power!

  Now, Fei Ruhe is the head of the Military Academy.

   Zhao Han decided to expand the army and prepare for war, how many regular troops to expand, how many new troops to form, Fei Ruhe could not make the decision, that was within the purview of the Military Affairs Department (Li Banghua).

  However, Fei Ruhe can choose a few soldiers first, and then assign them to his own troops in the future. The system is not perfect now, and after the territory grows, the chief officer of the Military Academy will definitely not be able to personally command the troops. Even if you want to command the army, you have to temporarily resign from the daily duties of the Military Academy.

   "Bring the list of prisoners." Fei Ruhe ordered.

  His secretary handed over a list directly, and said, "Headmaster, the general town asked me to give it to you."

  Fei Ruhe was furious when he saw it, and agreed to break up the Ehu soldiers and organize them into various units. But Zhao Han identified eight people in advance and sent them to mine directly without discussing with Fei Ruhe at all.

   Of the eight Ehu officers who were sent to mine, five of them had the surname Fei!

  Fei Ruhe completely lost his mind, left the Military Academy, and went straight to the yamen of the General Military Mansion.

   "Zhao Bingyuan, the general town is discussing matters, you can't go in... Zhao Bingyuan... General Zhao..." The guard hurriedly stopped.

   "Get out!"

  Fei Ruhe forcibly pushed the guard away and kicked open the door of the meeting room.

  Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua, Chen Maosheng, Xiao Huan and others all turned their heads to look, feeling a little bewildered.

  Zhao Han smiled and said, "Sit down."

  Fei Ruhe didn't sit down, but asked: "This is only two prefectures and eight counties, are you going to kill the donkey?"

   "It's a matter of business," Zhao Han explained, "I don't have to pursue all those Ehu soldiers, but the officers who lead the troops must be brought to justice."

  Fei Ruhe sneered: "There are eight officers in the army, but five of them have the surname Fei?"

  Zhao Han asked back: "The officer of the Ehu army, can the surname not be Fei?"

  This is the truth, as long as Zhao Han severely punishes the officers, the surname Fei must be the majority.

   "Why didn't you discuss it with me first?" Fei Ruhe asked.

  Zhao Han asked: "Will you agree?"

  Of course he would not agree, Fei Ruhe is a person with deep affection in his bones, it is impossible to send his family members to mine because of this kind of thing. Although mining is defined as reform through labor, and you can be free after five years, even if you come out alive, you will be sick.

  Fei Ruhe refused to admit it, and said stiffly: "You have discussed it with me, and I will definitely agree!"

  Zhao Han slowed down his tone and said soothingly, "Sit down and talk slowly."

   "I won't sit!" Fei Ruhe stood and glared at Zhao Han.

  Zhao Han sighed and said, "Oh, you should go home."

   "Sure enough, all the birds are hiding." Fei Ruhe sneered.

Zhao Han could only explain: "There must be spies from the government in the counties under our rule. Your identity and mine will be passed on to the governor of Jiangxi at a delay of a year or a half, or at the earliest in two or three months. Bring your family? I will reserve the seat of the Military Academy for you first, and you go home to calm down. Think about it, and continue to come back to work, and you don’t have to come back if you can’t figure it out.”

  Hundreds of Ehu soldiers were scattered to various units, and Fei Ruhe's identity would be spread out sooner or later.

  Fei Yinghuan's official position in Fujian is not stable, so he must send someone to notify him as soon as possible.

  Zhao Han is really not afraid that the Fei family is powerful, Zhao Han is not Liu Bang, and the Fei family is not the Lu family.

  Liu Bang and Lu belong to the entrepreneurial partners, and the shares are very close, not to mention that the system at the end of Qin Dynasty can be compared with that at the end of Ming Dynasty? The Lu family has private soldiers, and the proportion is very large!

   "Continue the meeting!" Zhao Han ignored Fei Ruhe and didn't let him go out.

Chen Maosheng said: "The truth is like this. The mission group and the government at all levels think that there are too many towns in each county. In the early stage of land division, there are many things to do, and the officials are naturally very busy. But after one or two years after the land division , it appears that the township officials are redundant. Village affairs, with the assistance of the village head and the peasant association, many township officials have nothing to do."

   "I agree with the reduction of one more township in each county," Pang Chunlai echoed, "Official salaries are too expensive."

Zuo Xiaoliang said: "At least two towns should be reduced. Take Luling County as an example, six towns are enough. I went back to my hometown during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and my cousin was an official in the town. He said that except for summer and autumn I am very busy collecting grain and encountering drought and floods, and other times I am too busy to catch lice.”

  Everyone spoke one after another, and Zhao Han was completely unable to refute.

  In ancient times, the imperial power did not come down to the county, and Zhao Hansheng created a town-level organization in order to penetrate the grassroots for power.

   But now it seems that it seems a little out of touch with reality.

  Zuo Xiaoliang's hometown is on the opposite bank of Wuxing Town, which was ruled by Zhao Han very early on. The fields that should be divided have been divided, the promotional crops have also been promoted, the land reclamation has been opened, the canals have also been repaired, and several new canals have been dug.

  Then, the officials in the town couldn't find anything to do, so they went to the Yamen to dawdle all day long. Only when taxes are collected in summer and autumn, or when floods and droughts occur, they become temporarily busy.

  Even Chen Maosheng, who always believed that the grassroots should be controlled, also felt that the township yamen should be reduced through feedback from the missionary group.

Zhao Han thought about it carefully, and suddenly smiled: "That's how it should be. When we are starting a business, we will definitely make mistakes in many things. If we make mistakes, we should correct them. If there are still mistakes like this in the future, I hope you can speak freely. How about this, every county Two towns were reduced, and the subordinate officials were transferred to Fengcheng County, Taihe County, Wan'an County and Longquan County respectively."

   Fei Ruhe, who was sulking, suddenly asked, "Are you going to attack Taihe County?"

   "Why, are you interested?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.

  Fei Ruhe said angrily, "I'm holding back my anger, and I just want to vent my anger on the bandits in Taihe County."

  Zhao Han asked: "Who will pick up your mother?"

Fei Ruhe said: "I'll send some confidantes back, as long as the people from Jing Xingyuan are picked up, grandfather, grandmother, second uncle, and third uncle can all be left alone. The magistrates would not dare to do it lightly."

Li Banghua said: "Since Zhao Bingyuan (Fei Ruhe) has come, let's discuss the military affairs together. I think that including the soldiers in the main town, the number of regular soldiers should be expanded to 8,000, of which 2,000 are sailors." .Yongfeng County in the east should also be taken down, so as to increase the depth and strengthen the defense of the eastern territory.”

   "I agree!" Fei Ruhe immediately agreed. As the person in charge of soldiers, he naturally hoped that the more soldiers the better.

  Zhao Han asked Pang Chunlai and Chen Maosheng: "If we take Yongfeng County, will there be enough officials and missionaries?"

  Pang Chunlai said: "If two towns are removed from each county, there will be 16 more town officials. It will definitely be enough to promote some more."

  Chen Maosheng said: "There are enough missionary officers. This year's development is very fast. Most of them are house slaves, prostitutes, and poor scholars."

"That's good," Zhao Han reminded, "Maosheng, let the missionary officers read more "Mencius" at ordinary times. The Four Books and Five Classics are also very important. Your missionary department is equivalent to the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, so you can't be looked down upon by those scholars. .”

Chen Maosheng said with a smile: "I'm reading "Mencius". Mencius's book is really good. The people are the most precious, the society is second, and the king is the least. That's why the people of the hills are the son of heaven, the son of heaven is the prince, and the emperor is the son of heaven. The key point of this passage, I think, is 'get the people of Qiu', which is the same as our theory of Datong, which is to make decisions for the common people."

  Mencius's "people are the most precious" does not only refer to the gentry and nobles, but to the "people of Qiudian", including hard-working farmers, and even more emphasis on farmers.

  Zhao Han said: "Also, let them learn more arithmetic, which is the Thai and Western arithmetic that children have to learn now."

   "I'll let them learn when I get back." Chen Maosheng said.

  Things have been decided in this way. The land of two prefectures and eight counties will now expand to five counties: Taihe County, Wan'an County, Longquan County, Yongfeng County, and Fengcheng County.

   Try to complete all the field work before next year's spring plowing. By then, Zhao Han will be the real villain controlling the thirteen counties.

  The regular soldiers were expanded to 8,000, the army to 6,000, and the navy to 2,000.

  The water army accounts for a large proportion, but in Jiangxi, we must vigorously develop the water army.

  After the meeting was over, Zhao Han received the news that day: the magistrate of Yongfeng died of illness.

   Fei Ruhe was suffocating with grievances in his heart, and vented his anger on Zhao Han, but he didn't want to really lose face because of this, so he raised his troops and went to fight Taihe County on the third day.

   Purely looking for someone to vent your anger.

  When he arrived outside Taihe City by boat, the county had already been surrounded. It was the brothers Fang Shengchang and Fang Shenghong who raised troops in Longquan.

  Hearing that Fei Ruhe had brought troops here, the Fang brothers rushed to see him: "I pay my respects to Zhao Bingyuan."

   "The two brothers don't need to be formal," Fei Ruhe asked, "How is the battle here?"

  Fang Shengchang said: "The rebels entrenched in various villages and towns have been wiped out, and the rest have hid in the county. My two brothers planned to present the three counties to the general town as a gift during the Chinese New Year."

  Fei Ruhe asked: "How many troops does your army have? How many bandits are there in the city?"

Fang Shengchang said: "Our army has more than 7,000 troops, but the elite is only 700 or 800. As for the bandits in the city, they are just mobs. Every time they fight outside the city, they are defeated by one blow. They are not as good as the bandits in the mountains of Longquan County. .”

  Fei Ruhe still has another task, saying: "Zhao Zongzhen intends to take over the three counties in the south. I don't know if the two brothers want to be civil servants or military officials in the future."

  Fang Shenghong asked: "How about the civil servants, how about the military officers?"

Fei Ruhe said: "There are rules on our side, I think the two of you are already aware of them. But the two of you have made great achievements in offering soil. If you are a civil servant, you can start from the county magistrate. If you are a military commander, you can start from the commander of five hundred troops Always start."

   "I am a civil servant."

   "I am also a civil servant."

  The Fang brothers who rebelled and took down Longquan and Wan'an counties, and soon captured Taihe county, chose to be civil servants with one voice.

  Because they are scholars!

   "That's good," Fei Ruhe said with a smile, "After the war here is over, the two of you can go to Fengcheng County and Yongfeng County to be county magistrates. This is a decision that the General Military Office has discussed."

   The Fang brothers have already built the ladder for the siege, and the siege has lasted for many days, and the defense materials in the city are almost consumed.

  These thieves are unwilling to surrender, because they have committed too many crimes, and surrendering is death.

  The next day, Fei Ruhe sent people to the city to shout: "General Zhao Er in Luling is here, the bandits in the city are listening, if the city surrenders, ordinary bandits will not die!"

   Capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be escaped. If the iron mines are full, they can be sent to repair canals and open up barren mountains.

   Of course, such words will not be said.

   After shouting more than ten times in a row, when they attacked the city again, the resistance of ordinary thieves was much weaker.

  Fei Ruhe had been observing the battle situation, when suddenly he took off his chain mail and only wore cotton armor and shouted: "Follow me to capture the city!"

  Fang Shengchang quickly dissuaded him: "General Zhao, there is no need to personally risk yourself."

  Fei Ruhe said angrily: "I got angry at Zongzhen, and today I must kill someone to vent my anger!"

   This guy personally led hundreds of soldiers, ran all the way to the bottom of the city, and climbed towards the chosen target city wall. The falling rocks and rolling logs were exhausted, as were the golden juice and boiling oil, Fei Ruhe climbed up with a knife in hand.

  Climbing all the way to the female wall, stabbing a bamboo spear head-on, Fei Ruhe lowered his head and dodged it, then slammed into it.

"kill!"

  Fei Ruhe hacked a small soldier to death, and shouted: "Luling Zhao Er is here!"

   Zhao Tianwang is Zhao Han, and General Zhao Er is Fei Ruhe. These are all broken names given by the surrounding rebels.

   When Zhao Er came to Luling, the thieves were frightened, and countless thieves threw down their weapons and fled.

  A thief leader named "Black-faced Tiger" came with his confidant, raised his knife and shouted: "Others are afraid of you, Zhao Er, but I am not afraid of Black-faced Tiger!"

  This fellow looks like charcoal, and he has a hulking back, and he doesn't know what he used to do.

  Slashing with a knife, the tiger is full of wind, obviously he is a practicing family.

"when!"

  Fei Ruhe had practiced swordsmanship for ten years. He split the opponent's weapon with one blow, and turned around to use his strength to make another blow. Flowing like clouds and flowing water, without hindrance, the thief capital did not react, and the second knife had already hit the front door.

  The black-faced tiger turned into a bad-faced tiger in an instant, and was slashed into the forehead by Fei Ruhe.

   "Master Tiger is dead, run!"

   "Luling Zhao Er is so fierce!"

   "..."

  Fei Ruhe was here to vent his anger this time, completely ignoring the soldiers under his command, just rushing forward with a knife in hand, and slashed at any bandits along the way.

   This guy chased and hacked more than twenty feet all the way, hacking and killing more than ten people one after another, scaring the bandits and fleeing in panic. After escaping, they collapsed, the entire city wall collapsed, Fei Ruhe chased hundreds of thieves to kill by himself.

  The Fang brothers stood under the city, dumbfounded.

   "True general!" Fang Shengchang said, swallowing his saliva.

  Fang Shenghong said dumbfounded: "Fortunately, I chose to join, otherwise this one in front of me would make us overwhelmed."

   (The map expanded to thirteen counties will be attached at the end of the chapter, please refresh if you can’t see it.)

  (end of this chapter)