On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 384 Divide into different places

Cui Che plans to use Yecheng as his new base, not that he plans to make Yecheng his capital in the future.

It's just that compared to dispatching troops and generals from Youzhou, Xiangzhou, located in southern Henan, is more suitable for the needs of the Central Plains.

Feng Xiaoci, who died in battle, and Li Jinghao, who committed suicide, were ordered to be buried alive. Lu Yu, a member of the judicial army, was also escorted in front of Cui Che.

Cui Che asked:

"Is Lu Canjun willing to surrender?"

Lu Yu tilted her head and snorted coldly:

"I am a husband. I can be a thief, but I want to die quickly."

Cui Che was not upset and signaled to Mai Jicai to fulfill Lu Yu's wish. Mai Jicai held a bow string and pulled Lu Yu to death.

"Let's bury him together with Li Jing and Feng Xiaoci."

Cui Che ordered.

Mai Jicai agreed and led two personal guards to carry Lu Yu's body out.

Cui Che sent people to send news to the Hebei states that had not yet surrendered, informing them of Li Jing's defeat. He also ordered people to send a message to Wei Zheng, asking him to take Maozhou's supplies south.

At the same time, Cui Che also felt that he could not continue to rule the southern part of Hebei in the name of the General Administration of Youying and Yingzhou.

He sent people to Hedong to persuade Yang Liang to join him, but also to ask for an official position for himself.

Of course, if Yang Liang does not cooperate, Cui Che will at worst proclaim himself the Governor of Hebei.

The envoys to persuade people to advance started on the front foot, but Cui Che was already setting up the framework of the Hebei Metropolitan Governor's Office on the back foot.

Shi, the governor-general of the governor's office, is undoubtedly Fang Xuanling, who is currently staying in Yandi.

As Cui Che's most trusted confidant, Fang Xuanling naturally wanted to go south with him after completing the migration of the soldiers' families.

Cui Che will use Fang Xuanling to take charge of government affairs and govern Hebei for him.

After Fang Xuanling goes south, Cui Che will also start the separation of military and political affairs in Yandi, with Zhang Wu leading the army to stay behind, but he will not interfere in local internal affairs.

The governor of Youzhou will be Shi Dongjing, the governor of Yingzhou. As for the governor of Yingzhou, Cui Che will hand over the governor of Yingzhou to Wang De, who has served as a county magistrate for two terms in Hebei.

Yingzhou is said to be a state, but in fact it only governs one county. With Wang De's ability, it is more than enough.

The remaining governors of the five states of Yi, Xuan, Heng, Yan, and Ping in the Yan region were all trusted by their relatives.

Wei Zheng served as the governor of the Grand Governor's Palace, Bo Ze, to assist Fang Xuanling in handling government affairs.

As for Sima, the governor general, he summoned Liu Fang from Dingzhou.

Of course, Cui Che naturally wants to firmly hold the military power in his hands. Liu Fang's position as Sima is more to assist Cui Che in handling Hebei's military affairs.

As for the General Office of Dingzhou, it will also be abolished, leaving only the governor of Dingzhou, and Kong Yingda, who will be known as one of the eighteen Zhenguan scholars in later generations, will take over.

Kong Yingda and Gao Shilian entered Cui Che's shogunate together when Cui Che was serving as Minister of War.

Gao Shilian was a clan member of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and his family members were all in Guanxi. Moreover, when he first joined Cui Che, he was trying to make a fool of himself and was not sincere. Therefore, when Cui Che defied the imperial court, Gao Shilian parted ways with him.

After all, Gao Shilian and Li Jing were in the same situation, and their relatives were all in Kansai.

But Kong Yingda was different. He was from Xindu in Jizhou, his family members were all in Guandong, and he had been taken to Yandi by Cui Che early. Naturally, he made the completely opposite choice to Gao Shilian.

Kong Yingda also has two other disciples who serve under Cui Che, one is Gai Wenda, who is also one of the eighteen Zhenguan scholars, and his brother Gai Wenyi who is equally famous.

At that time, Cui Che invited the great scholar Liu Zhuo to come to Youzhou to teach. Kong Yingda, Gai Wenda, and Gai Wenyi followed him, and thus they interacted with Cui Che.

Gai Wenda, Gai Wenyi and Kong Yingda were not only classmates, but also fellow villagers. Cui Che naturally did not forget to pick up their families.

After Cui Che takes full control of Hebei, he will distribute all his cronies who have followed him for many years to other places to completely control southern Hebei.

He not only sent envoys to report the news to the states and counties in southern Hebei, but when Qin Qiong took Weizhou, Cui Che ordered Wang Dangwan to lead 10,000 cavalry to the north, unite the troops of Dingzhou, and move toward Xingzhou, Zhaozhou, and Luanzhou.

He also ordered the remaining five thousand silver-saddled Khitan to go straight to Shenzhou, return to the command of Mai Tiezhang, unite with the soldiers of Jizhou and Yingzhou to advance eastward, and force the eastern states and counties to surrender.

As for the officers and soldiers of Mao, Bei, Wei, Ming, Xin, and Pingzhou, they still need to be reorganized and are of no use.

In the fourth year of Renshou (AD 604), on the second day of October, Cui Che was committed to building the Governor's Palace of Hebei and made a series of personnel adjustments.

Qin Qiong led 20,000 cavalry, and with the cooperation of the surrendered soldiers, he abandoned Weizhou Prefecture and governed Ji County (now Weihui, Henan), and first took Liyang County (now Junxian, Henan).

In one fell swoop, they captured Liyang County and Liyangcang outside the city.

Since part of the autumn grain had not yet been put into storage, the Liyang warehouse was not full at this time and had only reached two-thirds of its capacity limit of three million shi.

After counting by the officials, a total of two million dan of grain was obtained.

Qin Qiong left five thousand soldiers to guard Liyangcang, while he successively captured every county in Weizhou and captured the entire territory of Weizhou within five days.

Just when he was about to transport the grain from Liyangcang to Xiangzhou, Cui Che ordered Qin Qiong not to act rashly for the time being, because he got the news that the general manager of Qingzhou came to protect his son. When Cui Che dispatched troops to attack various places in Hebei, he thought that Xiangzhou was empty and planned to take it.

The Qi soldiers went north to attack Xiangzhou.

As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Cui Che also has three burrows, namely Yandi, Dingzhou and Qidi.

Although he only served as the general manager of Qingzhou for three years, during his tenure, he used disaster relief to thoroughly investigate corruption and went on a killing spree.

Almost all officials in prefectures and counties in Qi were promoted by Cui Che. If there was any trouble in Qi, Cui Che would know about it before Lai Huer, the manager of Qingzhou.

Now Lai Hu'er plans to take advantage of Xiangzhou's emptiness to lead all the soldiers northward, and Cui Che wants it even more.

On the one hand, he sent people to contact the salt soldiers and salt workers. Once they came to protect the children across the Yellow River, the salt soldiers and salt workers would start trouble south of the Yellow River.

On the one hand, he also instructed Qin Qiong, Zhou Kan and others to contact the old troops in Qi.

When Cui Che was the Minister of the Ministry of War, he transferred a large number of his cronies to serve as mid-level and low-level officers in the military regiments of various prefectures in the Qi region, including a guard of over a hundred people he formed when he was in charge of Qingzhou.

Before he left office, the Guard was disbanded and its members were dispatched to various states and counties.

If Lai Hu'er leads such an army to fight in an away game, it will naturally be a disaster.

Therefore, Cui Che specially asked Qin Qiong not to return to the teacher, so as not to scare away the guardian in the future.

Now Xiangzhou is said to be empty, but that is compared to the army under Lai Huer's command.

The 85,000 men who followed Cui Che southward, 20,000 cavalry followed Qin Qiong and stationed in Weizhou, 10,000 cavalry followed Mai Tiezhang and the soldiers from Ji and Yingzhou to march eastward, and 5,000 Pishi troops guarded Weizhou.

Five thousand cavalrymen guarded Mingzhou.

Another 10,000 cavalry followed Wang Dangwan and the troops from Dingzhou to force Xing, Zhao and other places to surrender.

After Cui Che released the Weizhou soldiers as promised and the Xiangzhou soldiers were temporarily unavailable, Cui Che still had nearly 35,000 infantry and cavalrymen under his command, which in his opinion was enough to handle the task of protecting his children.

No more today

(End of chapter)