Chapter 518 Is It Too Early?
Zhao Yulin pointed at Da Kui and Liu Qiangguang and said: Although you are just a deputy, you are in charge of the military affairs of an area. You must unite the various military branches in the area and strike out like an iron fist to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent and protect yourself.
Both of them excitedly assured him that they would guard the territory well and told the Third Young Master not to worry.
Finally, he asked the General Manager of Shunfeng and the Beggar Gang Leader Jian, who were also attending the meeting, to stay and talk.
He asked Boss Jian: What do you think about being suddenly transferred to Kaifeng?
Gang leader Jian immediately said no, when he first received the task, he thought the Third Young Master didn't trust him, but the envoy was very smart, and when he saw that guy Daleli arrived, he knew the reason. This person must have made a mistake and was demoted, and he went to Hangzhou to be supervised, so Shunfengsi transferred him to Kaifeng, which was definitely a trust.
Zhao Yulin laughed immediately, thinking that his mother-in-law was very smart and figured it out right away.
He said that Kaifeng is very important to our Shenwei Army, and the people will not allow any mistakes here. Gang Leader Jian is also in charge of the Shunfeng area of Jinan Prefecture, so we must not be careless and must quickly select those who can shoulder the burden and take over.
He took a sip of tea and told the leader of the Jian Gang: The whole country will be liberated soon, and the people's lives will get better and better. The life of the Beggar Gang will probably change. At least it will not be so easy to accept disciples in the future.
Ordinary people are living a good life, who would want to wear tattered clothes?
Gang leader Jian immediately smiled innocently.
He asked Gang Leader Jian to think about the future of the Beggars' Gang in his spare time and recruit all the disciples who are suitable for military service into the army. In the future, local branches can consider establishing charity halls to continue to serve the poor people. But the country will definitely not allow the formation of gangs.
Boss Jian immediately agreed with a "yes yes yes" and left.
Wu Yuqi asked him: Is it too early to tell this to Boss Jian?
He said: "Letting Gang Leader Jian come to Kaifeng is also meant to speed up the resettlement of the Beggars' Sect disciples. After all, the Beggars' Sect is the largest gang in the country. It would be too late to tell him after crossing the Yellow River."
At this moment, the Pacifier of Liangzhe Road was chatting with her father, Old East Evil, and her master, Old Beggar, on Peach Blossom Island. The female gang leader successfully returned to Hangzhou Prefecture and Dali, and then boarded her exquisite official ship to go home by the sea.
When the old East Evil saw the female gang leader's luxurious official ship approaching the shore, he gave his daughter a sharp look and said: You are so proud of yourself. You have become the Pacification Envoy of Liangzhe. Your tail is as high as a rabbit's.
The female gang leader went over and dragged her father to sit on a chair. She stretched out her two magic hands to rub his shoulders and back, and kept saying that the work in the government office was so annoying. She didn't want to do it anymore and wanted to come back to take care of her father in his old age.
The old beggar knew that she was playful and especially liked to play tricks on people, so he laughed and said, "Come on, there are so many officials in Hangzhou for Rong'er to play tricks on, but she still feels unhappy. She really can't even lie to people."
The female gang leader immediately got angry and complained that Qigong was too disrespectful to her. She originally wanted to cook a beggar's to comfort Qigong, but she decided not to do it.
The old East Evil said proudly that he wanted her to help him, so the young man from Yulin sent him a cook from Yibin who could cook beggar's chicken, firewood chicken, and other dishes. He even built an open-air firewood chicken stove in the peach blossom forest, so that it would be "delicious" to eat chicken that way.
The female gang leader was surprised and told the maid to prepare firewood chicken immediately.
The old beggar took a sip of tea and said: Rong'er, tell Jian Er to disband the Beggars' Sect. It's time for us to retire to the mountains.
The female gang leader was stunned and asked her why?
Was it Zhao Yulin’s idea?
We, the Beggars' Sect, fought hard for the New Song Dynasty. Why should we just disband?
She would never agree to that.
The old East Evil turned his head and glanced at her and said: From her tone, it is obvious that she is not angry, and she can't even pretend. She has been thinking about how to reform the Beggars' Sect for a long time, right?
The female leader immediately revealed her true colors, and said with a smile that how could a daughter hide it from her father. She was just thinking about it. When the Shenwei Army made Leader Jian the chief of Shunfeng, she knew that the Beggars' Sect would not last long.
Yulin doesn't treat us as outsiders, so we can change whatever he wants in the future. Daddy has long said that no court would allow a gang to become too big, let alone we have so many gang members.
The old beggar said that he had received the news a long time ago that the Cao Gang had transferred all the halls on both sides of the canal to the Shenwei Army, set up a ship operation, put away their swords and did legitimate business. It's time for our Beggar Gang to think about a way out.
The female leader said that she was still worried that Qigong couldn't figure it out. It turned out that the founder of our Beggars' Sect had been planning it for a long time.
She told the two old men that Gang Leader Jian was transferred to Kaifeng to be in charge of the Shunfeng areas in Henan and Shandong. It was probably Yulin's intention to do so. He wanted us to recruit people based on their abilities and place the brothers in the gang. Recently, a lot of Beggar Gang disciples have entered his Hangzhou Prefecture.
However, the Old East Evil told her to be careful and to avoid suspicion, as it was definitely not a good thing to see Beggar Gang disciples gathering together.
The old beggar put a mouthful of tea in his mouth and nodded "hmm". After swallowing it, he immediately cursed: "That idiot Jian Er knows nothing." He reminded the female leader to be careful, if the Beggars' Sect is to be disbanded, it must be really disbanded, and no more small circles must be formed.
If that were the case, there would definitely be big trouble.
How did Zhao Yulin know that Peach Blossom Island was discussing the aftermath of the Beggars' Sect? At this moment, he had already arrived in Jinan Prefecture, Jeju, and was standing on the Yellow River embankment with his generals, looking up and down the river.
Zhao Yulin was worried about the war in the northwest, and was also concerned about Da Kui going to Jinan Prefecture alone to take charge of military affairs, so he made a special trip to Jeju.
Li Tan introduced him to the defense situation of the upper and lower ferry crossings, and requested him to lead the well-trained Shenwei Army to fight the enemy.
Zhao Yulin said: Although the Jinan Prefecture Military Region is small, it probably has more than 100,000 soldiers, and it is a comprehensive military region with a full range of arms, including infantry, cavalry, and navy. The two commanders are both surnamed Li, and they are like brothers when they work together. No matter what they do, they will face the enemy in the same way.
Zhou Ping immediately said that he would absolutely obey the orders, and that no one in the navy would dare to disobey Deputy Envoy Li's military orders.
Li Tan said humbly, "General Zhou, you are too polite. I am really asking the commander to allow me to go to the front line to kill the enemy."
Da Kui laughed and said that Shandong is the front line of the anti-Mongol war, and how to kill the northern barbarians requires us brothers to plan carefully together, and we all have to listen to our superiors.
After returning to the government office, Zhao Yulin personally presided over the military reorganization meeting.
He said: He himself had not expected that there were so many good brothers in Shandong who were unwilling to take off their military uniforms and go home, so they all stayed.
The original plan was to form a Shenwei Army column and a garrison army column, with a total of 50,000 people. Now, if we add a Shenwei Army column and a garrison army column, and then organize a reclamation column, it will be a 100,000-man army, and we must lead it well.
He reminded Da Kui that soldier representatives at all levels of the army and a soldier committee must be established, and officers and soldiers must be united, so that it can be considered a new type of army of the New Song Dynasty.
He said: The garrison army and the reclamation army will be handed over to General Li Tan, and the Shenwei Army will guard the Yellow River and be at the forefront. Zhao Yulin told Li Tan that Shandong was too hard, and he would mobilize all the brothers who could go back home to help his hometown become rich.
The reclamation columns were all transferred to the Yianze Lake in Mizhou for reclamation and production. The prefectures and counties then formed female workers' teams of single women and assigned them to the reclamation columns to cooperate in production. This also created opportunities for the reclamation brothers to find women. If they found a suitable match, they would be given a house to settle down.
The brothers burst into laughter.
Zhao Yulin knocked on the table and said to Li Da Kui: What he said is not a lie. Shandong has experienced war and the people are living in poverty. Many families are separated. Organizing those women who have no one to rely on and are willing to join the army to join the reclamation column is not only helping them, but also helping our Shenwei Army itself.
Brothers, now that you have a warm home, why don’t you work hard and have more children? They will become our new forces when they grow up.
The generals laughed again, and they felt that what Zhao Yulin said made sense.
Then, he looked at Da Kui and Li Tan and continued: We must also take good care of the brothers who have demobilized and returned home. The court has transferred a large sum of money to our Shandong, and the brothers who return must be guaranteed to have a place to live and food to eat.
Li Tan nodded vigorously and reported to him that everything had been arranged.
Zhao Yulin nodded and told them that he would go down and take a look. The officials in Shandong Province had hardly changed at all, and if anyone took bribes and cut off the peace, they would be severely punished.
Everyone looked serious and promised to act impartially.
Zhao Yulin then went on to talk about the second thing.
He looked at Zhou Ping and said that the Shenwei Army's navy had entered Laizhou Bay, which was a good thing. They had just fought a battle and annihilated the main force of the Mongolian army at sea, so it was estimated that there would be no major battles at sea.
However, a more difficult task was placed before the navy and the coastal defense garrison. That was to impose a maritime ban and seal off Bohai Sea.
Everyone was stunned immediately, especially Li Tan, who stared at Zhao Yulin with wide eyes.
He said: The enemies in the north don't feel the pain yet, that's because we are still doing open trade with the grassland empire, which is wrong.
You remember, the steppe empire would not sell us good horses, so why should we sell them iron tools, so that they could make arrows to shoot our brothers?
From now on, we will implement a comprehensive maritime ban and not sell them even a piece of iron ore. They will have no iron to cast arrows or even pots.
The generals laughed again.
What Zhao Yulin said was simple, but it was difficult to do. It was not just about restricting the sale of ironware, but all war materials had to be controlled. As long as this tight ring was put on the grassland empire, they would soon feel the pain.
He asked Da Kui to take this matter seriously. Not only must this matter be done, but it must be done well. Once we tighten border trade, it will definitely be enough to give Hebei's enemies a hard time.
Li Tan asked him worriedly: In this case, those boatmen who are begging for food on the sea will definitely have a hard time making a living, what should we do?
He said it was easy. Those who were willing to join the army could join our navy and become part of the Coast Guard. Those who were willing to change careers could do so. We would buy the ships at high prices and would not treat them unfairly.
Zhou Ping was overjoyed. This meant that his maritime navy was expanding again. There were coast guards in various places. Although they were under local management, they were still considered his navy.
The guy immediately said that he sent someone to supervise the process, and it was done and it was still from Shandong.
Da Kui and Li Tan both laughed and said that it was done and it would still belong to our New Song Kingdom.
