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ww.x.om    There was a clearing land in the south of the Silla Palace, but now a row of simple houses have been built, with many Silla officials working in it, and this is the newly established household registration management office. There are many windows on the exterior wall of the house of the Household Management Office, and there are long queues lined up at the windows, most of which are the people of Jincheng who are here to register, and there are also many soldiers from the Tang Dynasty who are maintaining order.

On the tall city wall of the palace, Li Yan and Jin Shengman sat side by side, quietly looking at the people of Silla below. One had a smile on his face, while the other had a worried face.

The smile was naturally Li Yan. He has been in Jincheng for a while and his control over Silla is steadily increasing. The recruitment plan that had been prepared for a long time has finally begun to be officially implemented. It can be said that everything is going according to his previous plan. Next, after he has fully grasped Silla, it will be Baekje's turn.

However, Jin Shengman was a little worried. Although she agreed to recruit workers, she was mainly forced by this shortage of food. In order to avoid a large-scale starvation incident, she had to agree with Li Yan's recruitment plan. However, she was still a little suspicious of Li Yan's character, worried that after these Silla people were recruited, they would be sold by Li Yan as slaves like those slave-catching teams in the past. After all, the guy next to her was the largest slave leader in the Tang Dynasty.

However, no matter how worried Jin Shengman is, it is useless. She can only pin all her hopes on Li Yan's character, so she sighed and forced her attention to leave the recruitment. She suddenly said, "Your Highness, Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu have news?" Capital Tang 320

When Li Yan, who was full of confidence, heard Jin Shengman ask about this, his face also felt a little annoyed, and said in a tone of hatred: "Since they left Dingchuan City, there has been no definite news, but as far as I know, they have gone south and are likely to flee to Baekje. The reason why they disappeared some time ago was mainly because most of the generals in the southern level were Jin Gengxin's direct descendants. These people joined forces to help Jin Gengxin conceal their whereabouts, which made us unable to get news from them."

Last time, Li Yan sent people to chase Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu, but he was only half a step away but let the other party escape into Dingchuan City. At that time, the three thousand light cavalry led by Hu Li could not attack the city at all. He had to wait until the infantry behind arrived, but then Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu fled again, and there was no news about this escape, as if the three thousand people had disappeared out of thin air.

At first, Li Yan was a little strange about this situation. After all, they were three thousand elite soldiers. How could there be no news? It was not until the past two days that he used the information channels of Wu Meiniang in Silla that he discovered that it was the level generals who went south to make trouble. Jin Gengxin had been in charge of the military power for many years, and most of the generals were his direct descendants. These people joined forces to help him conceal it. Naturally, Li Yan could not get any news.

Jin Shengman's face also darkened when she heard this news. Although she knew that Jin Gengxin had a high prestige in the military, she did not expect that there were so many generals in her country who were willing to risk hiding the news for him. In this way, if Jin Gengxin really wanted to do anything bad for her, it would probably be really not difficult.

Thinking of this, Jin Shengman asked in a cold voice: "What will your Highness plan to deal with this matter?"

Li Yan thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Kim Gengxin has a very high military prestige in Silla. This situation is very unfavorable to us, because according to the current situation, Kim Gengxin is likely to surrender to Baekje. If he leads Baekje's army to attack Silla, there will probably be countless generals turning against each other, so in order to change this situation, we must take ruthless measures!"

Jin Shengman frowned. She seemed to understand what Li Yan meant, but said hesitantly: "Although there are not many troops in Silla, there are still some generals. If they replace them all, where should they be replenished? And now they are in a war with Baekje. If you do such a big move in the army, Baekje will definitely find out. If they take advantage of the situation at that time..."

Kim Seung-man didn't continue to say it. The two reasons she made were already very sufficient. Although she knew that many generals were Jin Gengxin's people, now is not a good time to touch them.

However, Li Yan laughed after hearing this, because Kim Seung-man didn't understand what he meant at all. He didn't want to replace all the generals of Silla in such trouble, but had other plans. After laughing, he suddenly said with a murderous look on his face: "I'm not interested in any military reform in Silla. If Baekje has the courage to take in Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu, then I will send troops directly to destroy the entire Baekje and quell the war on the peninsula in one fell swoop!"

As soon as Li Yan said, Jin Shengman was stunned, but then she suddenly understood what the gap between a big country and a small country was. Perhaps in their eyes, Baekje was an extremely powerful opponent, but in the eyes of Li Yan, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, Baekje was just a small country with weak people, and could be settled with backhand. After all, in the face of such a huge gap in strength, Li Yan was simply lazy to play any conspiracy.

However, Jin Shengman thought of another question and asked again: "Your Highness, it's winter now, and it's not a good time to start a war. Moreover, although Baekje's national strength is worse than our Silla, there are tens of thousands of troops after all. If the Tang army brought by Your Highness alone is still a little tight. If we use our Silla army, we may be rebelled by Kim Gengxin, so is it too early to destroy Baekje?"

Kim Seung-man obviously didn't know enough about Lee Seung. Since he said that he wanted to destroy Baekje, he had naturally thought of a plan. So he smiled and said, "The cold winter is indeed not conducive to military use, but now it is almost November, and this winter is not long. As for military strength, it is not a problem. I can borrow tens of thousands of troops from Pyongyang at any time, and I have a strong support before it arrives, so the calculation time is almost done. When they arrive, Baekje will perish."

The strong aid that Li Yan mentioned naturally refers to the group of trainees in the military academy. Although there were not many trainees here to train this time, they were the ones Li Yan needed the most, because the 15,000 people he brought from Dengzhou were all from slave hunting teams. After the training of Hu Li and Zhou Long, he could barely become a qualified Tang army. However, this army has a huge disadvantage, that is, the serious lack of qualified low-level officers. After all, soldiers can be trained in a short time, but officers cannot be trained in a short time, so the combat effectiveness of this army is not very strong. After the group of people from the military academy arrives, Li Yan will organize these people into his own army to serve as officers, which will definitely increase the combat effectiveness of the army by a higher level.

The recruitment of Jincheng was very smooth. In order to earn the food for the elderly and young people in their families, many Silla men first registered their household registration and then applied for a job at the Datang merchants who were recruiting. There were many Datang merchants who came to Jincheng to recruit workers, and they all had all kinds of work, but the work they did differently, the compensation they earned was naturally different. Some work also had strict requirements, such as age, surname, and whether they were strong or not. So even if you wanted to do some work, they might not necessarily accept it.

Once admitted by the Tang merchants, the recruited Silla people must immediately live in the residence arranged by the Tang merchants for them. These Tang merchants will also give a lot of food to the workers' families in advance. The reason for giving food immediately is to make the recruited Silla people feel at ease, but they are afraid that these people will escape after collecting the food, so as soon as the food is sent out, these people will temporarily rob their personal freedom. After they have enough of it, they will set off on their way immediately.

After seeing how successful Jincheng recruitment was, Li Yan and Jin Shengman finally promoted this recruitment method to the entire Silla area. After all, since the war with Baekje for a year, Silla has been in a state of food shortage in the whole country. Even Jincheng, as the capital, has no food to buy, let alone other places.

It was also because of this shortage of grain, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty began to recruit workers on a large scale in Silla, waving their grain bags, and this kind of recruitment was not limited to men, but even young women were recruiting workers. This was mainly recruiting textile factories in the Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, because the Tang Dynasty used to capture Silla women as Silla maids, the Silla people were very wary of the Tang Dynasty, so men were fine, but at worst they could buy strength. If women also went to work in the Tang Dynasty, it would be too dangerous, so few people who recruited female workers signed up.

Seeing this situation, smart merchants immediately made changes. They no longer recruited female workers, but set up food processing factories, leather processing factories and wool textile factories in Silla. This was mainly because, with Silla, almost all of them were large farms and ranches, producing a large amount of livestock meat and fur. In the past, they had to be loaded across the Bohai Bay to transport them to Dengzhou for processing, which cost a lot of freight. In comparison, Silla was still close to, and freight alone could save a lot of expenses.

In addition, Silla's manpower is also very cheap. Due to the war, Silla men died and injured a lot, and there were even widow villages in some places. Therefore, when recruiting workers, it was not easy to recruit labor in middle age. However, the men were gone, but the women were still there, and they also needed to support their families. Therefore, when the Tang Dynasty merchants recruited people with food as a reward, many Silla women who were about to starve to death immediately signed up. Capital Tang Dynasty 320

It is precisely because of the entry of these Tang Dynasty merchants that the grain shortage in Silla Kingdom has greatly alleviated. Of course, starvation must have happened, but at least there was no large-scale starvation incident, which is undoubtedly great news for Jin Shengman.
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