Author: Muzi Blue

Shuofang.

After Liang Shidu was executed, the rest of the cities were almost decided by word of mouth.

The tree fell and the hozens scattered.

Almost in the blink of an eye, things changed in Shuofang. When the general managers Yang Gongren, Duan Decao, Duan Lun, Fan Xing and Li Xiuxing heard the news, it was too late to return to the division and take a share of the pie.

They had just turned around, but the follow-up news came one after another.

Under the three cities of Shuofang, Dejing surrendered, Rulin, Zhenxiang, Funing, Kaiguang, Yincheng, Liangu, and all other cities surrendered.

Wu Huaiyu sent many light cavalry and took Liang Luoren and others to recruit surrender. Everywhere they arrived, the defenders opened their doors to welcome them.

Xiazhou.

Duan Decao, the governor of Xiazhou, had just returned from Ningshuo. He was cleaning up the three cities and preparing to restore the Xiazhou administration, but the angel of Chang'an had already arrived.

After listening to the will.

Duan Decao knew that his work was in vain.

"Congratulations Qingyang."

After hearing the decree, Huaiyu was very surprised. The achievement of destroying the country and killing the king was not small, but after all, it was just to instigate rebellion and surrender, not to directly attack and destroy him. He expected in his mind that it was possible to be promoted to the next level, and there was a high probability of being granted the title of Duke. .After all, when Xue Wanche fought in Longyou last year, he was promoted from county prince to county prince.

But this reward was quite unexpected.

Duke Yi Guogong, with a seal of three hundred households, Shangzhu Kingdom, Jin Ziguanglu, doctor, governor of Xiazhou, governor, also holds the title of bachelor of Chongwen Palace, Prince of the East Palace, Xima.

The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead.

As Duan Decao, who had been facing off against Master Liang for ten years, he actually felt quite unhappy when he saw Wu Huaiyu's award.

He guarded the border for ten years and defeated Liang Shidu many times.

But in the end, Wu Huaiyu made up for this last blow, and he got all the glory.

Although he also conferred the title of General Zuo Wuwei and was summoned to the court, this was not a real reward. It might even be a promotion but a demotion, cutting off military power and actual duties.

But although Duan Decao spent his whole life in the army, he was really not as good as Wu Huaiyu. Although he only became an official last year, he joined the Ming Dynasty as soon as he got off the mountain.

How can a side general like him be compared?

All Liang divisions were dead, and Duan Decao also completed his mission.

When the birds are gone, the good bow is hidden.

The emperor did not allow him to serve as the governor of Xiazhou for a while longer, so that he could sort out Xiazhou before leaving.

The emperor's decree seemed a bit impatient.

Duan Decao is old and his hair and beard are gray, so why don't you understand?

No matter what thoughts you have in your heart, you must put on a smile and listen to the edict at this moment.

Compared to Duan Decao's feeling of despair, Wu Huaiyu was really enjoying the glory at this moment.

Su Lie was also moved and happy for Wu Huaiyu. Of course, he also benefited from it, and he was also included in the emperor's reward decree.

He was granted the title of Baron of Linqing County, the title of Zhonglang General of Zuo Wuhou, and the title of Sima of Xiazhou Dudufu.

Liu Lancheng, the former Sima of Xiazhou Dudufu, was the chief of Xiazhou Dudufu in Jin Dynasty.

As for the former Chief Shi Liu Min, the former general of the Liang Division, he had another appointment.

Shi Wei Siren, the former governor of Yanzhou, was promoted to the governor of Suizhou, and Cheng Chumo was appointed as the governor of Yinzhou.

All the officers and generals in Yanzhou were rewarded this time.

Even junior officers like Hou San were promoted. When he was transferred from Longyou, he was just a team deputy, but now he has become a seventh-grade captain. I think back then, when the samurai Ke served in the army for the imperial court for ten years, he was just a lieutenant. Brigade commander, now Hou San has caught up with the good times. The two battles between Longyou and Shuofang, plus the Binzhou Pingluoyi rebellion, he has made more and more contributions, and he has become the brigade commander directly.

Zhao Xin, Chen Xing, Xu Siye and Wu Junwei were all smiling happily.

Zhang Chengde, Liu Xu, etc., the subordinates Huaiyu brought from the East Palace Economic Bureau, were also promoted.

Duan Decao congratulated Wu Huaiyu, and then happily handed over the seal of the Governor of Xiazhou to his nephew-in-law.

On the same day, Duan Decao returned to Chang'an.

He had been in the border area for ten years and was the commander-in-chief of one side. However, when he entered the capital this time, he behaved lightly and without any pomp. Lao Duan knew very well that in the border area, he used to give orders with great majesty and a mountain of military orders, but when he entered the capital, he did not care about anything.

Not any more.

He kept his posture very low early on, just to show his attitude to the emperor.

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Wu Huaiyu inspected Shuofang Xicheng.

The West City was built by Helian Bobo, and the East City was built later. As for the Outer City, it has been continuously expanded. Most of the Outer City is parallel to the East and West City, but there are also parts that thinly cover the East and West City.

One circle.

"When Helian Bobo built the Tongwan City, he mainly based it on the Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty."

Because he had done meritorious service by killing Liang Shidu and presenting the city anyway, Liang Luoren was appointed by the emperor as General Youxiaowei and Duke of Shuofang County. At this time, he was temporarily under Wu Huaiyu's command to help stabilize Shuofang.

"The west city mainly consists of the palace city, the east palace, the ancestral temple and the garden. The palace city is in the southwest, the east palace is in the southeast, the ancestral temple and the garden are in the northeast, and the imperial garden is in the northwest."

The garden area not only has rockeries, lakes, gardens, but also auxiliary halls, nomadic tent areas, stables, and storage.

There are many good horses, grain, equipment, and precious goods stored here, all of which now fill the Tang Dynasty's treasury.

Wu Huaiyu and his party, led by Liang Luoren and others, inspected the West City and found that although it was much inferior to the imperial palace in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, it was still relatively complete despite being run by Master Liang for ten years.

Especially the city wall system, including the enemy tower, turrets, city gates, and urns, etc. are very majestic. Back then, Duan Decao stopped under these solid city defenses in the West City.

It is a pity that such a strong city defense was not finally broken by the Tang army from the outside, but was captured from the inside by the imperial guards led by Xin Lier.

Liang Shidu spent ten years of hard work to strengthen Xicheng, but in the end he could not save his life. Even the large amount of money, silk, fine horses, armor, and grain he had stored in Xicheng eventually fell into the hands of the Tang army.

The entire West City is very majestic.

Its palaces and pavilions are even more amazing. There is such a majestic building on this fortress.

Yong'an Palace was a prosperous imperial palace at that time. Master Liang also restored it and it was still named Yong'an Palace.

But at this time, the Yong'an Palace built on Yong'an Terrace looked lonely.

Wu Huaiyu actually liked Xicheng and the palaces and pavilions here.

But Beiliang has been destroyed, so naturally this palace cannot be left.

Everything seems transgressive.

"Tear down all the trespassing buildings and use the demolished wood and stones to repair residential buildings."

In the three cities of Shuofang, Wu Huaiyu planned to demolish the west city of Liang Palace according to the imperial decree, retaining the city defense system, but demolishing all the palaces and so on.

"From now on, the west city will be used as a military city to garrison troops, and also as a warehouse city to store armor, grain and grass."

"The east city is the government office, official workshop area, school, and official residential area."

"The outer city is a market, workshop, and residential area."

Liang Luoren was a little distracted when he heard Wu Huaiyu's order.

He has devoted half his life here, and now he has to watch it all be destroyed.

The war is over and Wu Huaiyu has become the governor of Xiazhou. He now begins to consider restoring people's livelihood.

Open warehouses and release grain to help the people, recruit refugees back to their hometowns, resume production and seize autumn crops.

Wu Huaiyu and the others had great fun robbing people before, but now they have a huge headache trying to restore people's livelihood.

He also didn't expect that he would eventually become the governor of Xiazhou.

The five-pronged offensive of Lingqing and Yanyan has moved tens of thousands of people from Shuofang. This is a real loss of vitality for Shuofang, which already has a small population.

Of course it's not all bad.

Just like when he arrived in Yanzhou, the population of the four prefectures of Xiazhou has dropped sharply now. The advantage is that there is a large amount of unowned land, which can be allocated to the remaining people, and even part of the land can be sold in exchange for funds to invest in other areas.

"Mobilize the people of Shuofang City to come and move the palaces in the west city, build barracks in the military city, repair the outer city of the east city, and use work as relief."

Relief for work can quickly stabilize a large number of refugees. As long as these hungry people in Shuofang can have food to eat, this will solve most of the problems.

Wu Huaiyu gave Liu Lancheng, Liang Luoren, and Xin Lier a task.

Screen the officials and generals of the Puppet Liang Dynasty.

The so-called screening naturally means to treat them differently. For example, Liang Luoren, Xin Zhuer, etc., these are people who have surrendered anyway and are considered meritorious people. They should retain their official positions, be demoted and retained, or be transferred and appointed.

But there are still many Liang officials who were captured and surrendered, which is naturally different. These people must be carefully screened, and if they are indeed capable, they can be used according to the situation.

And there are still some people, mainly Liang Shidu's relatives and clansmen, or his confidants such as Liang Xuan, who must not be given preferential treatment.

They were all going to be killed.

However, as the governor of Xiazhou, Wu Huaiyu also had the duty of consolation. He still advocated killing less people, but not killing did not mean that he would not pursue the case.

Liang Shidu's royal family property, as well as the property of Liang officials and generals such as Lu Jilan and Liang Xu, were basically to be confiscated.
To be continued...