Chapter 582 Double Salary at the End of the Year
Now that Luoyang has been decided, Huangfu Chaobo has enough time and energy to deal with the affairs of the counties in Guandong.
After finishing all this, Huangfu Chaobo realized that it was indeed time to take a rest. Now in Luoyang City, the reconstruction of the inner city has been completed, and the clean-up and reconstruction of the outer city had started a month ago.
Most of the 100,000 Nanyang Army prisoners have been selected to join various units of the Luoyang Army. Their families also learned about their relatives through various channels, and then moved from Nanyang to Luoyang one after another. These alone have increased the number of people in Luoyang. There are more than 200,000 people. When all the military dependents of these Nanyang soldiers come to Luoyang, they can add four to five million people to Luoyang.
In terms of military strength, the two battalions of soldiers have been trained, and the guards at various city passes between Hulao Pass and Hangu Pass have also been properly arranged. It can be said that Luoyang has been basically stabilized from the inside. .
Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help but feel filled with emotion. He thought about how he had taken on this reconstruction task in a single thought, and it had been nearly a year and a half since then.
I was so worried from the beginning that I couldn't even sleep well at night. I was afraid that when I woke up, someone would have attacked outside Luoyang City. Luoyang, where I had spent countless time, energy and money, would once again be caught in the flames of war. In the end, I had to escape in despair. Go back to Luoshen Town. Fortunately, all this has passed now, and Luoyang is finally under his control.
As for the counties east of Hulao Pass, what Tian Feng and others said is not wrong at all. Luoyang is now stable and has strong soldiers and horses. Tens of thousands of troops can march eastward at any time. In addition, several cities in the east of Guandong are surrounded by Huangfu Chaobo's allies. , so it is only a matter of time before those counties are brought under control.
"Okay, since there is nothing to do and the Chinese New Year is coming soon, I have decided to host a banquet in the General's Mansion to entertain you all, as a way of thanking you. Mr. Yuan Hao, Yuan Zhi and my brother, please go ahead and make arrangements. We didn't have a good New Year last year. But this year's New Year is different. This year's twelfth lunar month, the salary of all personnel is doubled, so that everyone can have a good New Year. Except for the necessary personnel on duty, other soldiers, craftsmen and officials are given a ten-day holiday, and the personnel on duty are paid three times their daily salary. In addition, each of the soldiers and civilians in Luoyang City will receive twenty kilograms of rice noodles, five kilograms of meat, and one piece of ordinary linen cloth, which will be distributed by the Luoyang Prefecture’s district, which can be regarded as sharing the joy with the people."
"General, be kind!" Tian Feng stepped forward and responded; "However, as we are both under the rule of Pingdong General's Mansion, generals should not favor one over the other. Only the people of Luoyang have this New Year's ceremony, don't the citizens of other cities not have it?"
"Uh," Huangfu Chaobo was stunned, and thought to himself, no wonder people say that you, Tian Feng, are upright. He suddenly thought, "Sir, what you are saying is that Chaobo was negligent. Shi A, send orders to the generals of each city. All the cities under the jurisdiction of our Pingdong Army will implement this, and at the same time tell everyone that corruption is not allowed to be hidden, and anyone who dares to reach out will be severely punished. Mr. Tian and the Shadow Guard have arranged personnel to conduct supervision and verification, and deal with them one by one regardless of discovery. No one should be punished severely."
"The general is wise!" Upon hearing this, everyone stood up and shouted in unison;
"Okay, let's all go down and get busy. Use these few days to arrange things for the New Year. At noon on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, I will host a banquet for you all at the General's Mansion. Everyone will have a good time and drink!" Huangfu Chaobo shouted loudly. smiled;
After everyone agreed in unison, they retreated. From now to the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, there are only four or five days, which is not long, but all aspects of things must be arranged, so everyone's affairs are still pretty good. Many.
Huangfu Chaobo, on the other hand, was once again free after arranging things. So he had time to carefully observe the situation of each city under his rule.
According to the system arrangement, Huangfu Chaobo is now a prince who owns the land of four counties. However, the water content of these four counties is quite large.
Let’s take Henan County as an example. Originally, Henan Yin was one of the largest counties in the Han Dynasty before Dong Zhuo moved the capital. In the city of Luoyang alone, there were 200,000 households and more than one million households.
If you add in the fact that each of the 21 cities under the rule has a population ranging from 50,000 to 100,000, this county alone has a population of more than 2 million.
However, after Dong Zhuo moved the capital, the population of all the cities west of Hulao Pass was relocated. Now only the ten counties in Guandong have a combined population of more than 500,000, and most of the remaining 1.5 million have been relocated to Chang'an. One area was placed in the Sanfu area. After more than a year of hard work, the combined population of Luoyang and surrounding cities is now less than 500,000.
Let’s look at Hongnong County again. Hongnong County was originally a poor county among Sili Xiaowei Department. It had few cities and a small population. In addition, Dong Zhuo ordered Zhang Ji to move the population twice, and then after Lu Bu arrived, Two conscriptions have been carried out, and Hongnong's population has basically been exhausted.
Now the five cities under Huangfu Chaobo's control have a combined population of less than 30,000 people. When they got this number, everyone was shocked.
Moreover, there are now three counties in Hongnong that were assigned to players by Dong Zhuo, and Huangfu Chaobo has never had the time or energy to take them back. Therefore, Hongnong is also a pit, and it is a huge pit. Fortunately, with Hongnong in hand, the defense depth in the west of Luoyang will be much greater. Indirectly, it also increases Luoyang's safety factor.
The third county under Sizhou's rule is Hanoi County. This should be a good place. Because Huangfu Chaobo has already dealt with the former Hanoi Governor Zhang Yang, and the Hanoi Governor has also arranged for old man Zhu Jun to take over, there should be no problem.
In fact, it is not the case. Although Zhu Jun is already the governor of Henei, he actually controls only a few counties such as Huaixian and Dangyin. The rest of the counties are still in the hands of the scholar families headed by the Sima family of Wen County. These were all the same when Wang Kuang was the governor of Henei. Zhang Yang could not change anything at all.
As for the last Hedong County, there has been no reaction since Huangfu Chaobo took office as the governor of Sizhou.
After a round of watching, Huangfu Chaobo was depressed to find that he, the governor of Sizhou, seemed to be able to control only the dozens of counties in Luoyang and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. Well, you have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. If you take too big a step, you will easily get hurt.
After reading this, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly remembered that he didn't know how the knight in Luonan Town was prepared? So he turned to Shi A beside him and asked about the situation in Luonan Town.
Upon seeing this, Shi A hurriedly explained to Huangfu Chaobo the details of the recent transactions between Luonan Town and Luoyang and what his Shadow Guard had heard there.