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Chapter 25 Afterglow (4)

When Cao Wei was founded, he led the construction of the post office communication system throughout the Central Plains with the famous minister Chen Qun, and formulated the "Post Office Order" as the management system. After this dynasty was in one place, he not only inherited the system passed down by the previous dynasty, but also further improved and expanded it. At that time, through the post route centered on Luoyang, he could even reach the Qin Dynasty in the west. Even when Emperor Hui was in power and the government became increasingly chaotic, the post office system could roughly play a role. When Gou Xichu became the governor of Yanzhou, he recruited a thousand-mile cow to transport the precious and beautiful gifted to the powerful people in the capital. The five hundred miles of road was coming back every day, which showed the convenience of communication between Luoyang and Yanzhou.

In recent years, due to the war, 90% of the original pavilion and intern houses were destroyed. The roads between the central and local governments were blocked and the situation was more and more like the end of the Han Dynasty. But the foundation of the road was still there, and the subordinates of Funiuzhai bribed local officials along the way, and there was no difficulty along the way, and they urgently issued documents. Therefore, Hu Liuniang's letter entered Youzhou in just five days.

The pass chosen when entering the country was still the Jumahe Ferry in Quanzhou County. Lu Yao had sent people to open a special post station here. The number of good horses raised in the post station was specially used to convey urgent reports. The messenger simply used some food and then replaced the good horses in the post station. The horse's bridle was also specially decorated with long and narrow white feathers to indicate that the messenger's mission was urgent.

When the messenger rushed out of the post station, five light cavalry followed, surrounded by messengers in front, back and forth, and shouted loudly to drive away the idle people near the post station, and went to Jicheng in a row. Such a pegasus urgently reported that there was always a time every three or five days, and people near the post station were used to it and did not pay special attention. On a slope north of the post station, several people looked at the six-man cavalry team's far away figure, thinking about it... It was Zu Ti, the governor of Youzhou who was on a casual outfit, and his younger brother Zu, and his subordinates were in charge of Qi Hong and others.

"These light cavalry are all elite soldiers." Qi Hong sighed.

The messenger was exhausted, it was fine. The five cavalrymen who were guarding the messenger were just ordinary soldiers at the post station, but they were all brave and fierce. When they rode forward, they showed extremely clever riding skills, and the lineup was even more rigorous. Even Qi Hong, a famous general who had once marching across the Central Plains, had to admire his elite.

"A such a soldier needs to be commanded by a brave general. Hundreds of people are enough to cross the battlefield. He breaks the battlefield and snatches the flags and places him, he will be a trusted army that is particularly valued. But in Youzhou, he is just an ordinary subordinate of the Yingyang Army stationed south of Jicheng, and has such elite troops. Since this year, Lu Daoming has redefined the Youzhou military system, setting up the six armies of the Henghai, Liao, fertile fields, Pingshuo, Yingyang, and Dingbian. He has completed the strong soldiers and generals who have been hard-working and trained hard, and each army has 5,000 people! In my old days, I heard that Lu Daoming had the courage to go in and out of thousands of troops alone. Now that he has personally seen the results of his military training, he has realized that this person is truly a famous general."

Everyone present paid attention to Lu Yao's every move in Youzhou, and he couldn't help but nod.

After acquiring the Youzhou army by summoning the warrior competition and distributing land and giving generous rewards, Lu Yao took advantage of the situation to carry out an unprecedented large-scale training.

The people of Youzhou are fierce and the Hu and Han are mixed, and they have always been born from strong soldiers. However, relatively speaking, the problems of training and military discipline are very serious. Lu Yao also lacks the military literacy of officers at all levels. This time, the training was aimed at these aspects. Tens of thousands of troops were divided into several large camps, and they practiced once a day in the afternoon. Due to the extremely strict requirements, nearly a hundred people were lost due to fatigue or training mistakes. At night, officers at all levels had to gather in one place to study military tactics and discuss battle examples. There were also teachers who taught the stories of loyal ministers and good generals in history books every day according to the outlines designated in advance.

In this way, almost all soldiers and officers complained. Lu Yao's response was still three:

One is torture. When practicing, the most important thing is to say that the military order is like a mountain. Anyone who violates the order will be punished immediately. Two of the Dai County Army's old background, the backbone officers, who made contributions in the previous Dai County war, had just received land rewards. Because of this, the two were proud and satisfied, complained about the training, and were immediately deprived of all the land rewards and demoted to ordinary soldiers. It's nothing but, if you dare to escape or be lazy, you will be executed immediately once you find out, and you will never forgive me. You have killed 100 people and thirty-five of the following generals, and even hung their heads high at the camp gate with wooden poles, asking people to observe every day, and imprinted the majesty of General Pingbei into the minds of every soldier with blood.

The two are rewarded. The practice is extremely hard and tiring, but anyone who performs well in the practice will be commended immediately. The most common one is eating meat that night. Just to add food to the soldiers, hundreds of sheep from the grassland were consumed. If the performance is special, the reward will be more. The extremely outstanding ones will be promoted on the spot regardless of their background and qualifications, and will be commended by the entire army. Wang Jun’s old subordinates had a team named Song, who was humble from a humble background and was naturally clumsy and would not be flattered. Therefore, although he had been in the army for decades and had fought with foreigners hundreds of times, he was always just a soldier. He participated in Lu Yao’s school held by the Bird’s Nest School.

In the competition, he was promoted to the 100-man general in the Dingbian Army with a long force. During this large-scale military training, he made a big shot and led his subordinates to fight against other 100 teams for 16 times. He was personally named the champion of the entire army by General Pingbei. He was awarded a famous horse on the spot and promoted it to the team leader. This team leader is extraordinary. General Pingbei learned from the military system of the Great Qin State in the West. He was named "Chief Team Leader". His status was respectable and he could not kneel down when he saw the general. There were only six people in the six armies. All of them were very experienced and capable of being the commander of the entire army. In this way, the whole army was envious and his morale was greatly boosted.

The three, the general came to practice and shared the joys and sorrows. During the entire training session, Lu Yao was in the military camp and could not make an inch. What kind of food the soldiers ate, what kind of barracks the soldiers lived in, what kind of difficult training the soldiers also trained. In this way, the resentment accumulated by the soldiers was difficult to burst out. As time went by, the soldiers continued to undergo rotation, promotion, and reorganization, which formed a situation where everyone had witnessed the Pingbei General and the soldiers sharing the joys and sorrows, which made Lu Yao's control over the army unprecedentedly increase. Among the people present, some people tried to bribe and win over the Youzhou army not long ago, but found that there were few soldiers in the generals who were tempted to surrender to temptation. Overall, the tens of thousands of Youzhou army were undoubtedly firmly controlled by Lu Yao, and there was no chance to take advantage of it.

"This is also natural. After all, Lu Yao, a man who was killed in the country, was born from the army and had his current status and relied on his military power." Zu Yue had always been straightforward and offended others when he was appointed as the magistrate of Chenggao County, so he had to go back to Youzhou with his brother. But at this moment he still spoke boldly and had no scruples: "I heard that when Lu Yao was in Yecheng, he gathered more than a thousand troops and formed by the Qihuo Army and Jisang bandits and surrendered people. Now that he has been killed in battle, he is so cruel to the extreme. Now he is so hard to train troops. I am afraid he will take action again, right? Brother, you must be careful!"

Zu Yue was impatient and spoke loudly, but even spitting his spit on Zu Ti's face. Fortunately, Zu Ti was very tolerant of his young brother-in-law, and his attitude was even more leisurely and peaceful: "Lu Daoming is the commander of the military affairs of Youzhou, and he has the responsibility to protect the territory and the people. He has been punishing the military and military exercises and training wars. It is the blessing of the scholars and people in the northern border. What is there to be nervous about? Although Lu Daoming and I were in charge of civil and military affairs, we are both ministers appointed by the imperial edict of the court. We should work together. Haha, Master Scholar... Don't be sought by others!"

"Where are people provoking? Brother is too worried..." Zu Yue hesitated for a few times and said, "With my brother's vision and strategy, can't I tell the difference between Lu Yao's wolf ambition? Not to mention anything else, just look at the postal station he set up here. How many people have received urgent transmissions these days? I have specially sent reliable people to investigate. This postal route is not only deep into Jizhou, but also has a secret way to Central Plains and other places. How much manpower and material resources are needed to build and maintain this postal route? As the military personnel of Youzhou, why are they so eager to inquire about the situation in the Central Plains? If you think about this matter carefully, it is terrifying and terrifying!"

Zu Ti frowned slightly: "It is too rude to send someone to spy on the governor of Youzhou to do things. The young master of scholars will not be like this in the future!"

Zu Ti had a strong demeanor without anger, not to mention that he was much older than Zu Yue. Zu Yue respected him and was afraid of him, and treated him as brother and father. Since this was the case, Zu Yue was reluctant, so he could only bow and bow and say, "Yes."

Even though Zu Yue was like this, the rebellious attitude between his eyebrows and eyes was still there, and it fell into Zu Ti's eyes. His father Zu Wu died early, his elder brother Zu Qiao, Zu Na and himself have been traveling abroad for many years, neglecting to discipline his younger generations, so that this young brother's character is rough and radical, which is not a sign of success. However, he is already an adult, and was once filial and honest, and he has his own dignity. He cannot praise and criticize him as he used to be, and treat him as an ignorant child.

"General Qi, Master Shi, you are all following the soldiers and the other paying attention to the exchanges and the commissars. As expected, they are unique. To be honest, I also pay attention to it, but the angle is different from that of both of you." Zu Ti smiled and changed the subject.

Qi Hong squeezed out a smile on his cold and hard face and asked intriguedly: "What is the governor of Zu concerned about? I hope to hear it carefully."

Zu Ti pointed to the ragged pedestrians on the road: "Disago."

"Disaster?" Qi Hong frowned.

"Last winter, the Central Plains and Hebei disasters were plagued by refugees from the north these days. However, hasn't the elder brother contacted families from all over the country and made them settle properly? What else is worth paying attention to?" Zu Yue was indeed attracted by the new topic and came closer to ask excitedly.
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