Number of romantic figures

Chapter 20
Jia Yucun hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Xue Jun beside him.

He is from Huzhou, and he studied, became an official, and became a gentleman in Jiangnan. Well, Yangzhou is not considered Jiangnan, but it is also close to Jiangnan, so he really doesn't know much about the situation in Shandong.

The sudden bandit chaos made him very confused, and he didn't know what to do for a while, and he couldn't come up with many countermeasures.

But when Feng Ziying asked him a question, if he didn't even have an answer, he would be underestimated, and maybe he would be used as a scapegoat when he was really desperate.

"Brother Feng, I'm new here and I'm not familiar with the situation in Shandong, but I also know that the canal line is in the hinterland of Shandong, and there are always garrisons. Even if the guards are transferred, I don't know if there will be camps along the canal soldiers?"

The Great Zhou followed the Ming system, except for the two capitals in the north and the south, the main military force was the Guards Army. However, the Great Zhou was peaceful for [-] years, except for the nine borders in the north and the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang in the south. Besides, the inland areas are generally calm.

Even if there are occasional bandits, they can be wiped out immediately, so the guard army has been gradually eliminated and weakened due to insufficient military resources in the past 20 years.

For example, Linqing Guard should have 600 guards according to the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty. However, the Great Zhou Dynasty followed the Ming system. In fact, more than two-thirds of them were reduced to garrison troops, which is the so-called military households. Studying military affairs is only used as an additional source of soldiers.

But there are only more than a thousand people who really keep the establishment, and among these more than a thousand people, the old and the weak coexist, and half of the soldiers who can be pulled out to fight are already Amitabha.

However, in addition to the guards of the guards in the inland provinces, there are still battalions stationed in key places.

The battalion is basically drawn from the elite of the guards, and is led by battalion officers such as the commander-in-chief, lieutenants and generals, guerrillas, and garrison officers.

In other words, these forces are equivalent to the emergency forces of the garrisons in various provinces. They are the real troops that can be used to fight tough battles. It is difficult to support the overall situation if it is reduced to an ordinary security force.

Feng You glanced at Jia Yucun. This Jia Yucun was really good, and he got to the point with just one sentence.

With the current bandits in Linqing City, I'm afraid that the hundreds of guards will not be able to help if they come back. If there is no guard battalion to wipe them out, I'm afraid the bandits will become more and more troublesome.

Of course Feng Ziying didn't know how many battalions were stationed in this Shandong province, but Feng You did.

"Along the canal, only Jining and Dezhou have battalions stationed, and there are also Jinan in the east."

Feng You didn't mention Denglai and other coastal places. Firstly, the journey is far away, and secondly, the battalions defending the coastal areas are not within the reach of ordinary people.

"I'm afraid this battalion is not so easy to mobilize, is it?"

Xue Jun can also be regarded as an official, whose ancestors were Ziwei Sheren, but in his generation, he has declined, and has completely become a merchant family.

Of course, at any rate, they can be regarded as the lineage of the imperial merchants, and they know more or less about the affairs of the government.

According to the regulations of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the three major battalions in Beijing and the transfer of battalions are under the direct control of the Ministry of War. If it is an ordinary local matter, the battalions will not intervene.

Even ordinary thieves and bandits cannot mobilize battalion soldiers, that is a matter for the local yamen and the inspection department, and no matter how bad it is, there will be soldiers from the guards from all over the country to help deal with it.

For the battalion soldiers, there are only two things that can be moved. One is that the Ministry of War orders the transfer of the border guards to fight, and the other is that the Dusi and the Xingdu Si ask for transfer. There is only one reason for the Dusi to ask for transfer, that is, there is a rebellion by bandits or Japanese pirates invade the inland.

There have been no Japanese pirates in Shandong for decades, only in the pre-Ming Dynasty, so it can be ignored. As for the rebellion, the hinterland of Shandong is right under the eyes of the capital. There are no camp soldiers stationed in the town.

Without the words of the Du Si, ordinary people want to go to the garrison and battalion soldiers to imitate the drums and knock on the door of the Yamen to persuade the battalion soldiers to dispatch, which is simply nonsense.

Feng You obviously knew this too. The troops stationed in the town, like the troops stationed on the Nine Frontiers, generally don't listen to local officials at all.

Not to mention the folks asking for help, that sentence can be pushed to the local health office.

It's not impossible to mobilize the battalion, then you have to mobilize the Shandong capital.

The problem is to go to Jinan to report. Shandong Dusi will definitely send someone to inquire after hearing the news.

Even if it is really confirmed that there has been a bandit, if you meet someone who is not responsible, you may have to ask the Ministry of War for instructions, and you don't know how long it will be.

I'm a little worried, and I also need to write a document to let the battalion soldiers in Dezhou, Jining, or Jinan send troops to Linqing. I'm afraid it will take ten days to go back and forth.

In case this gang of thieves really entrenched in the Feng family's mansion, the dry food and water stored in this secret room would be difficult to support. Even if all goes well, if the officers and soldiers are driven away, the people in this secret room may not survive two up.

"Mr. Jia, I know what you mean. It's very difficult to mobilize the battalion, and there must be too little time." Feng You shook his head decisively, "If you wait until the battalion arrives, I'm afraid it will be too late."

"But the guards of Linqing have been transferred away. I don't know who ordered it, and I don't know when they will return. Are we just sitting there waiting to die?" Jia Yucun is also a little anxious, and he still has a bright future. Seeing that he has climbed to King Jia The line of the two companies can make great achievements, how can they die in this Linqing city?
"Uncle You, besides the battalion soldiers and guards, are there any soldiers around here who can call for help?" Feng Ziying was also helpless.

He didn't know much about the military transfers within the Great Zhou. This was because he was born in a general's family. Ordinary people didn't know these things at all.

"There is Cao Bing." Feng You sighed.

Cao Bing is stationed around here, but everyone knows what Cao Bing is. In name, they are guards protecting water transportation, but in fact they have already been reduced to a bunch of garbage that lives on waterways. Those guard soldiers are not as good as they are, they are not worth mentioning at all.

Although Feng Ziying didn't know the situation of Cao Bing, she could also feel from the expressions of Feng You, Jia Yucun, Xue Jun and others that Cao Bing could not be relied upon at all.

The task of the Cao Bing was to guard the water warehouse, and then escort the grain to Beijing. The grain was transported into the warehouse in December of the first year.

The five national water sub-warehouses located in Huai'an, Xuzhou, Linqing, and Dezhou, together with Tianjin, which is shipped by sea, have become the biggest reliance on ensuring the food supply for millions of people in Beijing.

Therefore, for Cao Bing, the world is not as big as Cao Liang, and they will not participate in any other affairs as long as the safety of Cao Liang is not endangered.

Since water grain is the lifeline of millions of people in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, no one has dared to think about the safety of water transportation in the past few decades.

Not to mention pulling out to fight, even if you are really attacked by bandits, as long as the matter is not too big, you are more willing to suppress it.

At worst, it has become a common practice to use the excuse of "drifting away" to prevaricate.

　Keep working hard to ask for recommendation tickets!

(End of this chapter)