Chapter 25: Warrior visit

Outside the Tang Imperial City Political Affairs Hall, a group of imperial guards stood with a knife, without looking sideways, and were majestic. In the Political Affairs Hall, the heads of the three provinces, the left servant Pei Ji of the Shangshushou, the right servant Pei Shuda of the Shangshu, the branch minister of the disciple, Chen Shuda of the Jung-secret, and Xiao Yu, the secretary of the Central Secretary, was quarreling in the Political Affairs Hall, and his beard was glaring, with red faces and red hands.

The Sui Dynasty established five provinces, including the Secretary, the Secretary, the Secretary, and the Eunuch. The Secretariat was similar to the later Pavilion. The Eunuch was a special eunuch institution. The one who presided over the central government was the Shangshu, the Secretary, and the Three Provincial Departments. The three provinces restrained each other and were responsible to the emperor. Among them, the decision-makers were the Senior Officials of the Internal History, and the Internal History Order; the examiner was the Senior Officials of the Internal History, and the Office was the Senior Officials of the Internal History, and they were the Senior Officials of the Internal History, and they were the Senior Officials of the Internal History, and they were appointed as the Minister of the Internal History Order; the agency that handled daily government affairs was the Shangshu, and the Secretary was appointed as the Minister of the Internal History Order, and each of them was the Left and Left.

After the death of Dou Wei, the Inner Shishi Ling, after discussion with Li Yuan, the Inner Shishi Province was renamed the Secretariat, and Xiao Yu and Xiao Shiwen were the first Secretariat of the Tang Dynasty.

The first thing Xiao Yu did when he took office was to prepare for Li Shimin's expedition. The Secretariat was responsible for daily government affairs, the Secretariat made decisions, and the Secretariat was responsible for review.

Since the Shangshu Ling was given to Li Shimin, the left naked robes became a generation of the Tang Dynasty.

The policy formulated by Xiao Yu was to prepare 100,000 troops to consume a year's money and grain, including 1.5 million stones of grain, 500,000 stones of grass, and 200,000 pieces of cloth. The Ministry of Works needed to make 5 million crossbow arrows, 3 million arrows, plus 30,000 horizontal knives and 50,000 sets of armor.

Chen Shuda was anxious at that time. It was not that the Tang Dynasty could not bring out so much money, grain and equipment. Last year and this year, Guanzhong had a tax revenue of more than 3 million stones alone. Bashu and Hexi could still be detained in three months by 1.6 million stones and 400,000 stones into the pass. There is food, but unfortunately it is too difficult to transport so much grain.

In this era, ordinary transportation capacity was limited, and two-wheeled carriages were extremely high. However, the Tang Dynasty could mobilize only 5,000 carriages. If they were transported by two-wheeled carriages, only 1.5 million stones of grain would require as many as 75,000 carriages. The gap was too big. Even if five thousand carriages were transported day and night, a carriage could only be transported more than fifty times a year, and the gap was still two-thirds.

What's more, it is necessary to transport materials such as forage, armor, weapons, spears, and turbulent oil. For the poor transportation ability of the Tang Dynasty, it was simply a delusion.

The transportation capacity of the Tang Dynasty improved by leaps and bounds, mainly after the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing attacked Yinshan at night, defeated the Eastern Turks, and obtained millions of cattle and horses. At that time, the Tang Dynasty court could mobilize hundreds of thousands of chariots and horses.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Shiwen stood up, poured a cup of tea for Chen Shuda and Pei Ji, first gave it to the case table in front of Pei Ji, back to the front of Chen, and said in his mouth: "Wang Shichong's rise as military title is definitely not a false reputation. His Jianghuai soldiers defeated Liu Yuanjin, Zhu Xie, Meng Rang and other rebels. Even Li Mi, who defeated Yu Wenhua and tens of thousands of elite Xiaoguo Army under his command, was defeated by him. The King of Qin sent troops to fight against Wang Shichong, and the army of 100,000 infantry and cavalry cannot be shortened. Before the troops moved, food and grass will go first. As the prime minister, we eat the king's fortune. If we cannot share the worries for the king, wouldn't it be a simple position and corpse meal? Then what kind of appearance is the rank of the ranks?"

Chen Shuda was speechless, and he didn't understand the truth that Xiao Yu could understand. If he didn't even understand this, Li Yuan would not let him replace Liu Wenjing and become Nayan and be the prime minister. However, understanding is one thing, but whether he can do it is another thing. Chen Shuda slowly said: "Then how to solve the transportation problem? The Bashu Mountain is high and the road is long. Even if it is recruited, it will take too long to delay the major events of the Eastern Expedition. However, there are only more than 670,000 households left in Guanzhong. Apart from the 100,000 army, how many young and strong can be left? I'm afraid there are less than 50,000 people, and 50,000 people may find it difficult to complete the task of transporting supplies..."

Pei Ji raised his eyelids. If Hedong had not been ravaged by Liu Wuzhou and the miserable was everywhere, he could have conscripted 100,000 people from Hedong and 700,000 800,000 s of grain to easily complete the transportation task. It’s a pity that now there are crying sounds everywhere in Hedong. New graves are built in every village, so how can he even dispatch manpower?

At this moment, an eunuch entered the Political Affairs Hall and saluted respectfully to Pei Ji, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda: "Pei Xiang, Xiao Xiang, Chen Xiang, Your Majesty summoned him to meet with Ganlu Hall."

Pei Ji moved forward without hesitation, and swung his sleeve. The sleeve seemed to accidentally touch the eunuch's lower hand, but the eunuch obviously felt that his hand had sunk. As a walking in the palace, he had already understood how Pei Ji handled it. Pei Ji's hand had always been quite a lot, and he felt that the weight in his hand was at least ten taels.

Even if it was money, it was ten coins. He worked in the palace for three years.

The eunuch smiled and said, "What do Pei Xiang wants to know?"

Pei Ji was able to stay in front of Li Yuan, but his holy favor was not reduced. It is absolutely impossible to say that he was a simplified person in the emperor's heart. The key is that Pei Ji had a close relationship with the palace and could know in advance that Li Yuan was in good mood and what Li Yuan was thinking. If you want to think about the intention and understand the holy heart, Pei Ji was definitely unique in the Tang Dynasty.

Pei Ji asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty summoned you, what's the matter?"

The eunuch smiled and said, "It's so good for Pei Xiang to know that I vaguely heard His Highness the King of Qin mention the Eastern Expedition and transportation."

When Chen Shuda and Xiao Yu heard this, they felt even more depressed. Both of them were first on the stage and their foundation was unstable. If they could not even do this major matter well, they would probably not be able to convince the public. You should know that there are many civil and military ministers in the court who squeezed their heads and wanted to be the real prime minister.

When Pei Ji heard this, he signaled the eunuch to lead the way.

Chen Shuda and Xiao Yu followed closely behind, but the two were uneasy, which formed a sharp contrast with Pei Ji, who was full of confidence and unscathing.

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It is undeniable that Li Daozhen's money was given very promptly. At least it could satisfy Chen Ying's current payment. Chen Ying planned such a project for the first time and naturally acted according to the habits of later generations.

The cost calculation must be done very carefully. Of course, Li Shimin came to the construction site and did not see that he really wanted to build a fort, but Chen Ying was still very careful. Everything was mainly about the preparations for repairing ditches and firing bricks. After all, the winter in Guanzhong came very early, and it was time to snow at most one or two months. At that time, there was no way to carry out outdoor projects.

On this day, Chen Ying and Ge Tong modified the mechanical parts of the convertible, especially the lubrication of the bearings, to reduce friction and improve the efficacy. Just when Chen Ying and Ge Tong were busy, they heard Chen Jinyong's report and a distinguished guest came to the door.

Chen Ying knew that it was very impolite to see guests with oily hands and disheveled clothes. So he took a shower and put on new clothes. When Lan'er heard that a distinguished guest came to the door, she cheered up and got up, dressed neatly, and went to the main courtyard to serve him.

Chen Ying was dressed in a fresh dress, but two carriages slowly drove into Chen Ying's courtyard. A thin man was wearing a purple dress, wearing a black soft-legged head, black official boots, and a goldfish belt hanging around his waist.
Chapter completed!