Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

"Xiaguan Sima is in trouble, please see your Majesty! Thanks to Your Majesty Gaoyi for taking in and protecting me, the lives of Xiaguan and his family can be saved!"

In Jinyong City, Sima Xiaonan came to worship, and Li Tai finally saw the rebel Gao Zhongmi Second of the Northern Qi Dynasty who had triggered this war.

Sima Xiaonan was tall and elegant in appearance. It seemed that he could become Gao Huan's son-in-law not just because he was Sima Ziru's son, but also because his own qualities also had a certain bonus.

However, because Li Tai knew Sima Xiaonan's nature, he didn't expect much from him. When he really saw him, he didn't have any bad feelings in his heart.

He raised his hand to signal the attendants to come forward and help Sima Xiaonan up. He said with a smile: "You don't need to be polite, Duke Xingyang. You brought everyone to surrender, so that our country has a good opportunity to defeat the thieves. This war is a great victory, and the Duke also takes a lot of credit." Great. Meeting you in this city now reminds me of the past events of my generosity and righteousness with Gao Taibao. I will definitely introduce you to you after I return to the court. I believe you two will have many interesting words. Want to talk.”

"This official has been appointed to his hometown by chance, and his meritorious deeds are really not comparable to those of the king and Gao Taibao, but it is a great honor to be invited as his guest!"

After hearing this, Sima Xiaohan hurriedly leaned forward and said, feeling happy and full of expectations for his future official career in the Western Wei Dynasty.

Leaving aside the fact that the King of Tang in front of him has been revered as the leader of the Bafu, Gao Zhongmi, who had defected to the Western Wei Dynasty in Hulao City, has become a Taibao, and his treatment must not be too bad.

After all, Gao Zhongmi's defection to the Western Wei Dynasty not only failed to bring any benefits, but also brought it a heavy defeat. However, by joining the Western Wei Dynasty, he single-handedly reversed the balance of power between the East and the West and brought about huge changes in the world.

Li Tai didn't know what Sima Xiaonan had in mind, and he didn't plan to reuse this person. If he could keep to himself, he could stay in the court and get a vanity position and become a wealthy idler. As for When it comes to holding any real power and being appointed as a feudal official, it is really overthinking.

After meeting with Sima Xiaonan, Li Tai met with many generals and powerful chiefs in Heluo, and made some arrangements for the personnel situation in Heluo.

This time, Heluo was all owned by the Western Wei Dynasty. It can be said that this was the best situation the Western Wei Dynasty had achieved since Emperor Xiaowu fled westward. Although Dugu Xin once regained Luoyang, it did not last too long, and his control and influence were not fully spread throughout the Heluo area.

This time, the Western Wei Dynasty actually regained Heluo, not only the area south of Heqiao, but also the Hanoi County in the north. This achievement alone is very gratifying.

As the old capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Luoyang has special significance to the Western Wei Dynasty. Even several generations of previous kings of the Northern Wei Dynasty are buried here. Although Li Tai's reputation is already at its peak and he can replace the Western Wei Dynasty at any time, which weakens the significance of this level of ritual, in terms of the overall strategy, occupying Heluo is also very important for the subsequent East-West confrontation.

However, Li Tai does not plan to move the Bafu center to Heluolai for the time being. After all, this place has been war-torn for a long time, and the production order and scale still need to be restored and developed. However, Bafu's military organization needs a relatively mature system to maintain operations. Once it is transferred to the Heluo area, it will greatly slow down the recovery of people's livelihood in the area.

It was not convenient for him to stay in Heluo for a long time, so he appointed the general Han Xiong as the general manager of Sizhou to sit here, and left his second brother Li Chao as the governor of Sizhou to be responsible for various people's livelihood politics here.

When the Western Wei Dynasty was in a weak position, the powerful powers in western Henan contributed a lot to maintaining the situation, and each of them also accumulated profound influence in the countryside.

However, since the Heluo area will definitely become a new political and military center in the future, it is not suitable for arranging too many powerful military officials to stay in the countryside. Therefore, except for Han Xiong, none of the other generals in western Henan, Li Tai, were arranged to serve in Heluo. Instead, Luo appointed them as military commanders directly under the command of the Bafu. The sergeants under their command also had to participate in conferring fields and became sergeants of various mansions. They no longer had to wander around the mountains and have no fixed residence as before.

Although Heluo has been recovered, it is still necessary to ensure that sufficient armed forces are stationed to defend the Northern Qi Dynasty and continue to penetrate and develop into the Henan area.

So Li Tai then patrolled and selected among Yiluo, demarcating various locations for the establishment of Hussar Mansion. The newly built Hussar Mansion was no longer like the previous ones in Guanzhong and Shannan, which often had thousands of sergeants. The scale was greatly reduced, and the number of soldiers was reduced to about a thousand. Twenty hussar mansions were set up in advance in the Yiluo Valley and along the river banks. , the size of the army was maintained at about 30,000 people.

At present, Heluo's material supplies mainly rely on the Shannan area. If there are too many armies, it will inevitably cause greater pressure. When people's livelihood here recovers in the future, we can consider further increasing the size of the garrison.

The people's livelihood in Heluo was declining. When the Northern Qi Dynasty ruled here, the successive governors and governors paid more attention to military investment and management, but paid less attention to people's livelihood.

So much so that after the Western Wei Dynasty took over, the Heluo area, which has the reputation of being in the sky, has only a few thousand registered households in total, which is not as good as a large county in Guanzhong! Such a number is obviously unreasonable. There must be a large number of demigrants and wandering refugees. This also shows the devastation caused by the war to this world.

If you want to restore people's livelihood, you must first restore the number of registered residents. Therefore, regarding the next focus of the Sizhou Governor's Office, Li Tai's instructions were that while establishing military organizations such as the Hussar Office, they must carefully monitor the population and increase the number of registered citizens. Without a sufficient population, everything will be done with half the effort and many difficulties.

At the same time, he also pointed out that although barbarians are also targets of household reorganization, their scale must be limited. And no matter where it is, the ratio of Han to barbarians must be controlled, and the Han people need to have an absolute advantage. Only through such a social structure and population ratio can the assimilation of barbarians be maintained and prevent them from grouping together to resist government orders and be unwilling to accept civilized management.

As for the recovery of the people's livelihood economy, it is natural to make land reclamation, farming and weaving the first priority. Only when we can be self-sufficient in food and clothing can we develop other industries on this basis.

While Li Tai was arranging and deploying various tasks, time also passed quickly. More than ten days passed quickly, and the family members of the surrendered people promised by the Northern Qi Dynasty were also sent into the country one after another.

Although this was not the first time that the Western Wei Dynasty asked the Northern Qi Dynasty to transport people, when those who surrendered knew that they were entitled to this treatment, they could not help but cry with joy, especially when they saw their relatives being ferried out one after another. When they were brought to Nan'an, there were many people who shed tears of excitement, pulling their relatives to cry and shout, and then kowtowed and thanked them in the direction of Jinyong City.

In troubled times, life, separation and death are common. When these surrendered people chose to surrender in order to survive, they often had repeated struggles in their hearts. They were not only worried that they would never see their loved ones again from now on, but also worried that their relatives who stayed in Northern Qi might be reunited. Because of this, he was implicated. So after the surrender, although safety was guaranteed to a certain extent, I was always worried, full of guilt, and accumulated great pressure in my heart.

They did not expect that the King of Tang was so benevolent and righteous. He did not completely ignore their demands because they were just low-status camp soldiers. Instead, he begged their relatives from the Northern Qi Dynasty for them so that they could be reunited here. They could not help but shed tears of gratitude.

"The king is benevolent and righteous, cares for the people, and treats each other sincerely, which is more effective than any combination of control. After these blessings are passed on, people's hearts will surely be able to use them, and peace and stability in Heluo are not far away!"

Han Xiong and other generals who accompanied the Tang Dynasty on patrol saw this touching scene of family reunions, and they all said with emotion for a while.

After Li Tai heard this, he also sighed and said: "To defeat the enemy and unify the world, you may still need to rely on the favorable weather, time and place. But if you care about people, bring peace to the people and achieve good governance, and apply skills to the people, you can do it with your heart. Everyone has the heart to do good. If you are able to do your best, you should strive to be an official. If one person's laziness makes everyone cry, it will be a shame to die! You and others should take this as a warning to yourself."

After everyone heard this, they all nodded in agreement and said that when the king comes here again in the future, Heluo will definitely not be the chaotic and dilapidated scene it is now.

As everything here temporarily came to an end, Li Tai gathered the troops and formally returned to the court, ending this campaign.