Li Jiancheng was wearing a green shirt, and Li Shimin was wearing a gauze shirt. They were talking in their hands, but their minds were obviously not on the chessboard, so the hands holding the chess pieces hung in the air and did not fall down.
The two people's thoughts seemed to be flying around, so their eyes were a little dull, as if they were staring at something, but they didn't seem to be looking at anything.
Perhaps because of their common concerns, the two temporarily put aside their prejudices against each other and their grievances with each other, and sat together with frowns on their faces.
"Eldest brother, second brother..."
Li Yuanji ignored it.
The two people were awakened, their eyes began to focus, and there was a hint of anxiety and worry on their dull faces.
"Are the Turks coming? Where did they come from? How many soldiers and horses did they come?"
Li Jiancheng was the first to put down his chess pieces, stood up quickly, walked to Li Yuanji and asked anxiously.
Li Shimin also stood up. Although he did not speak, his eyes were fixed on Li Yuanji.
Obviously, he had the same questions as Li Jiancheng.
Li Yuanji did not hide it, and said frankly: "The Turks did come, from the line from Shizhou to Weizeguan, and from Xiaoguan. There were more than 100,000 troops on the Shizhou line, but according to Li Xiaogong, Shi
There are only 30,000 soldiers and horses on the front line of the state, and the rest are mostly slaves and servants.
Although Xiao Guan did not find the Turkic army, he did find the scouts in front of the Jieli Golden Wolf tent."
Li Jiancheng quickly looked at Li Shimin. In this regard, Li Shimin was professional, could analyze things more clearly than him, and could see and predict more than him.
So he wanted to hear Li Shimin's analysis.
Li Shimin frowned and said: "When the scouts in front of Jieli's Golden Wolf tent arrived, so did Jieli. With Jieli's nature, he would not lead less than one hundred thousand troops every time he went south.
Since there are only 30,000 string-controllers on the front line in Shizhou, it means that Jieli brought more troops to Xiaoguan.
If Jieli persuades Tuli to go south with his army, then Xiaoguan will probably face more than 200,000 Turkic troops."
Speaking of this, Li Shimin said with an unprecedented solemn expression: "With all the arrangements you have made, can you stop the Turks' 200,000 soldiers and horses? If you can't, we will have to make other plans and prepare a good move."
Preparations for going to Luoyang."
Although being forced to move is a very shameful thing, if things really get to that point, it doesn't matter whether it's shameful or not.
It is better to lose land and save people than to lose both people and land.
Li Yuanji still didn't hide anything, and roughly explained all his arrangements. When he said that he would lead the remaining soldiers and horses of King Qin's unified army to Xiaoguan for reinforcements, Li Shimin hurriedly said without thinking much: "Then
What are you waiting for? Hurry up, gather your troops, bring your supplies and set off?"
Li Jiancheng nodded and asked quickly: "Is there enough food and grass? If not, find a way to exchange some benefits with those wealthy families.
Don't be stingy at this time, and don't worry about not getting back the benefits you gave away.
As long as we, Datang, get through this difficult time, we will have plenty of time to take care of them in the future.
Just think of them as cattle and sheep raised by me in the Tang Dynasty. Now is the time to feed them with fodder. When they are fattened, you can kill them, and then you can harvest more meat."
Li Yuanji glanced at Li Jiancheng in astonishment. He did not expect that Li Jiancheng, the spokesperson of a wealthy family, would actually view the wealthy family in this way.
If those wealthy families who supported Li Jiancheng heard Li Jiancheng's words, would they be happy or regret it?
Fortunately, Li Jiancheng was defeated and they no longer had to worry about being killed.
I regret supporting Li Jiancheng, they are actually raising a tiger to make trouble.
"Why are you looking at me like this? You want to ask, how is the food and grass collection going?"
Li Jiancheng saw the surprise on Li Yuanji's face and shouted anxiously.
Li Shimin wanted to interject, but he opened his mouth but did not speak.
Li Yuanji came back to his senses and sighed: "Eldest brother, second brother, if we had known about this, why did we do it in the first place?"
Li Jiancheng was shocked and opened his mouth, but could not speak.
Li Shimin had a look of emotion on his face and was speechless.
Now that things have happened, you can say they regret it, they definitely regret it.
But if it happens again, they will still do whatever they should and shouldn't do, and they will even be more ruthless, cruel, and vicious than before.
This is imperial power.
While it makes people regret it, it also makes people have to fight for him.
Seeing that Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were silent, Li Yuanji guessed their thoughts and knew that although they regretted it, they did not think what they had done was wrong.
Li Yuanji did not mention this topic again, but said to Li Jiancheng: "You don't have to worry about the food and grass issue, I have already raised it."
Li Jiancheng slowly came back to his senses, looked at Li Yuanji in shock and said, "How could you raise all the money?"
Li Jiancheng knew better than anyone how difficult it was to raise food during the war.
It is precisely because it is clear that it feels incredible.
Li Yuanji said calmly: "Nothing is impossible. I drove Yin Kaishan to lead Xu Shizong and other rebels into Zhaozhou, and cooperated with the soldiers and horses led by Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin to completely defeat Zhaozhou.
, the Li family in Zhaozhou was also destroyed.
I sold all the family property of the Li family in Zhaozhou to the Yang family in Hongnong.
Hongnong Yang gave me 1.07 million shi of grain in one breath."
Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were both stunned.
The first feeling is that it was sold at a loss.
Considering the richness of the Li family in Zhaozhou, selling tens of millions of shi of grain is not an exaggeration, let alone one million shi of grain.
Because the Li family in Zhaozhou has more than 100,000 hectares of fertile land, most people in Zhaozhou make a living by farming for the Li family in Zhaozhou.
The grain produced from these fertile fields alone can reach millions of dan every year, not counting the other industries of the Zhaozhou Li family.
Even if the imperial court was in a hurry for food during the war and sold it at a discount, it would not have cost one million shi.
"Did you fight a war and gain nothing, but instead benefited the Hongnong Yang family?"
Li Jiancheng once again felt that his younger brother was a fool, and that he was a little too stupid.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although Li Shimin thinks that his younger brother should not be so cheap to the Hongnong Yang family, he also thinks that his younger brother is a fool.
If it were him, he would not do this at all. He would sell part of the property of the Li family in Zhaozhou to raise the food and grass needed by the army during the war, and then use the remaining property to attract the Cui family of Qinghe.
, Boling Cui family, Fan Yang Lu family, Taiyuan Wang family, Hongnong Yang family and other families came to compete for it.
If he mediates in the middle and pulls some groups to defeat others, he will not only be able to obtain more benefits, but also take the opportunity to eliminate a few more wealthy families.
This is definitely a good opportunity to eradicate the wealthy family, because the Zhaozhou Li family's family fortune is very rich and attractive. With the greedy temperament of the wealthy family, they can eat people without spitting out the bones. If they don't pounce on them and take a bite, then they will
Weird.
As long as they dare to bite, he has many ways to deal with them, and some ways to make them hurt.
It's a pity that such a good opportunity was wasted by Li Yuanji.
For the first time, he felt that he was fighting for the position a little too early. Not only was he not fully prepared, but he also missed such a good opportunity to attack a wealthy family.
"I only gave the houses, shops, iron ore and other properties of the Zhaozhou Li family to the Hongnong Yang family, but I did not give them the Zhaozhou Li family's land and floating wealth."
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes speechlessly. He was not a fool, so how could he do a loss-making business?
If he gave the land and wealth of the Li family in Zhaozhou to the Hongnong Yang family, how could the Hongnong Yang family agree with him for one million stones of grain?
Just those fertile fields were sold at low barter prices, and the amount of food obtained was more than one million dan.
Even one million stones is just a fraction of it.
As for floating wealth, the iron ore alone is enough to buy one million stones of food, not to mention the gold, silver, and copper coins.
So, how could he sell everything owned by the Li family in Zhaozhou to the Yang family in Hongnong for one million shi of grain?!
He still wants to use that money to continue developing water transportation and developing the southwest.
He still wants to use those fertile fields for farming.
Wang Xuance and the other guys had already prepared all the manpower needed for farming, and when Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin took them down and incorporated them into the garrison, the first agricultural reclamation corps in the Tang Dynasty was born.
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If the weather is good next year, the food they grow will be able to supply part of the Tang Dynasty's troops.
As long as we follow the same pattern and build two more agricultural reclamation corps, the food needed by all the armies of the Tang Dynasty will be available.
By then, Datang would no longer have to worry about food problems for wealthy families.
When the time comes, let alone the rich and powerful families who are taking advantage of the imperial war to make a fortune for the country, it will be a question of whether the old grain in their hands can be sold at the market price.
Only after experiencing the hardships of a wealthy family can you understand the evils of a wealthy family.
There are thousands of years of experience and lessons for future generations to learn from. If we don’t deal with them, are we going to let them continue to do evil?
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"That's still a loss..."
Li Jiancheng said with a pained look on his face that he seemed to have regarded the Zhaozhou Li family's family property as the Longxi Li family's family property, and felt that selling at a low price was selling his own family's things at a low price, which was a bit of a waste.
Although Li Shimin also felt a loss, he felt that it was not as bad as before.
Li Yuanji didn't intend to tell Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin all his calculations and plans, so he didn't say much in the face of Li Jiancheng's complaints.
"Let's get back to the war. I'm going to take you two to Xiaoguan together. I hope you two are mentally prepared."
Li Yuanji spoke slowly.
Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin looked at each other and nodded with complicated expressions. They didn't say anything more, nor did they take the opportunity to put forward any conditions or say they didn't want to go.
In fact, when Li Yuanji said he was going to Xiaoguan, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin had guessed that Li Yuanji would take them with him, so they had already been mentally prepared for this.
After all, in a different place, when they can't bear to kill their brothers, they will take their brothers to the battlefield when faced with this situation.
However, if we really live in a different place, this kind of scene probably won't happen.
Because they are different from Li Yuanji, they can kill their brothers ruthlessly, and they will kill them all.