Chapter 1,225 Personnel Arrangements in Shangdang County

Seeing the news from Zhao Yun, Guo Jia understood Chen Gong's thoughts: "Your Majesty, if Jia's prediction is correct, Zhao Guo should have given up on Shangdang. In this case, Your Majesty does not have to press hard. If No surprise, all the cities in the northern part of Shangdang should have been evacuated by Zhao, just like Huguan County."

As he spoke, Guo Jia looked at the empty Huguan County and shook his head with a wry smile. Nowadays, let alone an ordinary citizen in the county town, there is not even a copper coin in the treasury. If it were not for fear that burning the grain would attract the attention of the Tang army, Zhang Yang would probably burn the thousands of stones of grain in the granary. Put out the fire.

"Well, then, after dawn tomorrow, General Dong Fang will lead the two schools of Baotao Camp to send troops to Lu County to open up the connection with Wei County. Huangfu Jianshou will lead the Hujie Camp to defend Huguan County, and the rest of the troops will follow Gu Continue heading north and send King Zhao off to Shangdang territory."

"Promise!" All the generals said in unison after hearing this;

Holding the list of the main officials and generals of the Tang Dynasty in his hand, Huangfu Chaobo pondered for a while, and said to Shi A: "Shi A, send an order to Luoyang to transfer Chen Guochang Shi Tianzheng to be the governor of Shangdang, and to transfer Luan Pingcheng guard Zang Ai to be Chen Guochang. History, Luoyang Baguan Commandery Zhou Shi was transferred to Shangdang Commandery, Lingshan Daocheng County Commander Han Wei was transferred to Luoyang Baguan Commandery, Lingshan Island County Commander Ji Bao was replaced by the former deputy commander of Shenwuying, and the original deputy commander of Hujie Camp was transferred. Yin Li, the captain of the Liang Kingdom, was transferred to the position of deputy general of Shenwuying, and Meng Yuan, the defender of Shuangluan City, was ordered to take up his post within one month. "

"promise!"

Regarding the personnel of Shangdang officials and generals, Huangfu Chaobo thought about it for a month or two, and only now has he finally decided. Tian Zheng is the eldest son of Tian Feng. He is now nearly forty years old. Although he is far less talented than his father Tian Feng, he is also an expert in internal affairs with an intelligence of 80 plus. After coming to Luoyang with his father, he has not been an official. He only assisted his father in handling some government affairs. It was only after Tian Feng truly worshiped Huangfu Chaobo as his lord that he truly became an official. It can be said that his ability was fully qualified for the post of governor of a county.

Zang Ai is Zang Ba's eldest son. According to history, after Zang Ba's death, he was posthumously named Weihou by Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui. His title was assigned to his son Zang Ai Si. "Book of Wei" said that Zang Ai "was known as Huangmen Lang because of his talent and rationality, and he served as county governor." Zang Ai became the governor of Qingzhou and the Shaofu. After his death, he was named Gonghou. There is absolutely no problem with his ability to take over the post of Chen Guochangshi.

Luoyang's Eight Pass Captain Zhou Shi was one of the five young generals of Changshe trained by Huangfu Chaobo when he was in Changshe. He had served as the Eight Pass Captain for quite some time, and there was no problem in being transferred to Shangdang Captain.

Then there is the transfer of Li Le, the deputy general of Shenwu Camp, to the deputy general of Hujie Camp, but this was Huangfu Chaobo's decision after careful consideration. Li Le was originally the leader of the Baibo Army in Hedong and was familiar with the situation in Hedong. He was also very familiar with Shangdang, especially the area connected to Hedong, so It is most suitable for him to serve as the deputy general of Hujie Camp.

Yin Li was originally one of the generals in Mount Tai, and his abilities were quite good, so there was no problem in taking over the post of deputy general of Shenwu Camp. As for Meng Yuan, he was one of the first batch of generals brought by Huangfu Chaobo to the Longhua area outside the Great Wall. He has been doing well over the years, so he took over the post of captain of a small county like Liang. , there is no problem.

After arranging the officials and generals on the Shangdang side, Huangfu Chaobo himself breathed a long sigh of relief: "Okay, everyone, please step back and do your own thing. The army will set off early tomorrow morning to force Zhao Jun out of Shangdang "

"I respectfully respect the king's orders!" All the generals agreed in agreement.

After saying that, everyone retreated one by one. Seeing Guo Jia had arrived at the door, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly stopped him and said, "Fengxiao, please wait a moment. I still have some things to discuss with you."

After hearing this, Guo Jia returned to his seat and sat down.

After everyone else had retreated, Huangfu Chaobo said, "Does Fengxiao have any other suggestions regarding Shangdang's arrangements?"

After a moment of reflection, Guo Jiacai said: "If the prediction is correct, all the cities in the northern part of Shangdang should be empty, so Wei Chen suggested that people be moved from other places to join Shangdang.

The biggest difference between Tang and Zhao was national power. Going deeper, it lies in the number of people. Your Majesty has always tried every means to increase the number of people, so now our population of the Tang Dynasty has reached 15 million, making it the first among all countries and accounting for about 30% of the entire world. . "

"The original population of Shangdang was less than 200,000. After successive wars, the population now should be more than 100,000. However, Shangdang also has more than ten cities. If each county town is calculated as 20,000 to 30,000, then one There should be no problem in supporting a population of 300,000 in the county, so the task is to move in a large number of people to enrich the cities."

"Especially this time, the population of the cities in the northern part of Shangdang has been moved away by the Zhao army. It just so happens that the king can move a large number of people into these cities and firmly control them. This is a double benefit. As for the central and southern parts, Although the population is not as large as that in the north, there should be no problem if each city can move more than 10,000 people, especially the cities in the central part."

"If we move a large number of people, Jia believes that it only takes three to five years for the king to order the court to support us, and Shangdang will be firmly in our hands. By then, it will be much easier to attack Zhao from behind." Guo Jia told Huangfu Chaobo everything he thought about in one breath.

"In Fengxiao's opinion, where is the best place to move people from?" Huangfu Chaobo asked again;

"Hebei!" Guo Jia pointed to the southeast and said, "Sooner or later, there will be a war between Wei State in Hebei and our country. At that time, the area around Wei County will be the center of the war between the two sides, so the king can move some people from Wei County to deal with the upcoming war in Hebei."

Huangfu Chaobo nodded thoughtfully. It is true that Wei County has a large population now, more than 1.5 million, and is the second largest county in the entire Tang State after Runan, but its number of cities is less than half of Runan. You know, when Han Fu ruled, the total population of Wei County did not exceed 800,000. The rest of the population was forcibly moved from other cities in Hebei by Han Fu according to Huangfu Chaobo's proposal.

And it is indeed as Guo Jia said, only two or three years of support is needed to make Shangdang self-sufficient, and then there will be enough pressure on both Zhao and Wei.

After Huangfu Chaobo agreed to his suggestion, Guo Jia said, "There is actually another place where the king can start preparing."

"Huh?!"

"Black Mountain!" Guo Jia pointed to the northwest;