Time passed, and it was soon June. I originally wanted to capture the Hehuang Valley and then hand over Qinghai to surrendered Murong Fushun. At this time, Li Jing was able to lead the army to set off back to Chang'an.
But it's a pity that because Li Tai wanted to completely include Shanzhou and Xihai County in the control of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing also had to lead the army to clean up one copycat after another due to defeated troops or Tuyuhun nationalists.
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There is no way, it is different to simply looting Tuyuhun and occupying the essence of Tuyuhun into the rule of the Tang Dynasty. After all, since ancient times, this kind of thing of clearing out the defeated soldiers has always been the most troublesome.
Even though Li Jing showed the hundreds of lines and the large army dispatch that made Li Tai stunned, cleaning up the counterfeit villages ultimately requires cleaning up one mountain after another, and removing the strongholds one by one.
Therefore, Li Jing was probably trying to completely clean up this large area of Shanzhou, and he was afraid that it would be delayed until October.
To be honest, Li Tai didn't know what he should answer when facing Li Jing's Versailles-like modesty.
However, the only thing I can do is to do a good job in logistics for Li Jing. Li Jing will arrange food and other things by himself, and Li Tai does not need to take action. After all, as the commander, food is the safest thing in his own hands.
But Li Tai's consideration for the army was to supplement various meat foods, clean various clothes, and even brothels were prepared for the soldiers.
As long as these soldiers convert the seizure into food coupons, they can enjoy it with the food coupons.
What this brought about was to make these soldiers' fighting will high, which Li Jing discovered first.
After all, he is already in his sixties. This time he led his troops to fight Tuyuhun was almost the final battle for his life.
Li Jing did everything himself, so he discovered the positive performance of the soldiers in the palace.
This is how Li Tai built a very orderly logistics system based on the people of Shanzhou itself.
Simply put, the seized on the battlefield can be converted into food coupons that can be consumed as soon as possible. As long as Li Jing arranges a rest, these soldiers can consume these food coupons, which is enough to motivate the soldiers.
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After all, the soldiers live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife, so unless they are particularly family-oriented people, they will choose to store some of the food coupons and prepare to take them home.
But more soldiers in the palace followed the nature of being drunk today and spending a lot of money without hesitation.
After all, fighting on the battlefield, exchanging your life for money. If you have money in your hands, you will spend it as soon as possible and enjoy it.
As for spending money, it is not a big deal for many soldiers, because their families have separate fields and Yongye fields. When they go back, they will be farmers again. Although they are not rich, they can still survive.
This kind of person is probably the modern type of person who works in the city and spends all the money he earns in the local area, and he has no intention of saving to buy a house.
After working for ten years, I still can't take root in big cities. Instead, I have to spend 70% of the money and I can only go back to my hometown and live by renting a house.
After all, in the early Tang Dynasty, the military soldiers who could prepare to equip themselves to participate in the war were considered middle-class.
As for where they seized Tuyuhun and even robbed local bandits, of course they spent it.
This has nothing to do with Li Taike. Li Tai only provides products, but they themselves who actually bought these products.
Of course, Li Tai just wanted to intercept their wealth and use it for local development.
But Li Tai's clear channel is quite fair to these soldiers.
Because after the war, few of these soldiers themselves can explain clearly how much they have obtained for the seizure.
After all, they are just soldiers in the palace, even the middle class of this era, most of them are illiterate.
Originally, even if they got wealth, they would probably only be able to go to some unscrupulous pawnshops to exchange for the supplies they needed.
But as Li Tai gradually improved the food coupon system, they were able to obtain relatively fair prices and extremely considerate services.
The most important thing is that the military achievements obtained are difficult to quantify. After all, to a certain extent, the official position cannot be promoted by simply killing people. However, the food coupons Li Tai made can make these soldiers know clearly that they are
Every effort is not in vain, they can be converted into thoughtful food coupons!
It is also true that with the continuous positive feedback, the soldiers of the government are still very enthusiastic about fighting.
Even if they were to destroy horse bandits or bandits, most of them were formed by defeated soldiers from the Tuyuhun Kingdom, and they were not purely suffering people, so they were more or less captured.
Even if he is really poor, as long as these people are not dead, Li Tai will be taken over as a prisoner.
Almost everyone is priced at five kilograms of grain, but the captives are asked to trade with Li Tai directly in the army, instead of just catching local prisoners by one person and two people, so Li Tai will not accept them.
Because the price is not very high, it is just a snap when cleaning up horse bandits or bandits.
If you kill the good and make a contribution directly, it would be unprofitable. After all, although Li Jing is politically a fence, he is not ruthless in governing the army.
Li Tai started this mission not just for manpower, but for the purpose of meeting the regiment-level leaders in the army.
In the military system of the Tang Dynasty, like Li Tai, the Zhechong lieutenant, managed a government office, and the government office was a regiment, which generally managed 300 people.
However, the regiment was not called the regiment commander, but the lieutenant or the brigade commander, and he was considered a relatively basic officer.
In addition, there is a team leader who manages 50 people, and does not have the position of centurion.
Therefore, it is really difficult to let Li Tai remember all the teams, but let Li Tai be familiar with the lieutenant or brigade coach who manages 300 people, Li Tai feels that it can still be done with hard work.
He doesn't need to give anything. He just gives them the respect they should have and says a few more words of encouragement. Seeing them excited, it was obvious that these people were still very willing to fight for the Tang Dynasty.
If they were seized and sent for the second time, they would enthusiastically call their names and talk about family matters, imagine a bright future, and even if they had time, they would invite them to eat roasted whole sheep and drink some barley together.
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In short, Li Tai just let the flow and talked with these basic regiment-level officers.
Although they were enthusiastic, they did not win over them, so when Li Daozong and Hou Junji saw it, they just looked at it casually and didn't care much.
After all, even if we want to rebel, we have to look for generals like them, and what's the use of just finding these grassroots officials?
Could it be that just by your King of Yan who encouraged them and followed them to eat and drink a few times, they would be unable to get along with you?
However, Li Jing looked at Li Tai's actions and did not say much, and did whatever he should do.
After all, I am in my sixties and I am at the age of retirement, so there is really no need to participate in it.
In fact, the management level of the King of Yan was quite good. It not only solved the problem of food and clothing for the soldiers, but also completely stabilized with the autumn harvest of Shanzhou.
And more importantly, he can use money and food to allow soldiers fighting abroad to maintain high morale for a long time, so that they can continue fighting immediately after spending every time they spend it.
Of course, Li Tai also admires Li Jing very much. After all, in Li Tai's opinion, his work is what a logistics staff should do, which is to make the soldiers of the palace need nothing except fighting.
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But the basis for his ability to do all this is that Li Jing can win every battle. Without this foundation, even if he wants to do this, if the people below complain, they might cause unnecessary problems.
But no matter what, Li Tai and Li Jing's cooperation allowed Shanzhou to be included in the rule of China at an incredible speed.
The most obvious point is that Du Chuke's road from Chang'an to Shancheng is almost a thousand miles away, and it arrives in one month.
Li Tai couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Du Chuke coming, and Du Chuke also sent Chang'an convenient imperial edict.
The main reason was that the court agreed to Li Tai's plan, but the occupied Tuyuhun land was split. First of all, the Hehuang Valley was still in Shanzhou, but the Qinghai area was established to be the Xihai County and was under the jurisdiction of Shanzhou.
The governor of Shanzhou was Du Chuke, and he took over the policies set by Li Tai. This is not the first time anyway.
The court believed that Du Chuke could do this well. As for Wang Xuance, he was the magistrate of Xihai County and still implemented the "Seed Plan".
"It seems that the court dislikes your official position too small. Even if I recommend you, you can't be promoted to Shanzhou!"
Li Tai looked at Wang Xuance and looked at Wang Xuance with a little emotion.
"The situation is now great!" Wang Xuance shook his head at Li Tai and said, "Please believe that King Yan, Xuance will not disappoint you."
To be honest, in Wang Xuance's opinion, the current situation is really good.
At least it would be much better than when I was in Longyou. I was defeated and lost my job on the first day of work. Are there any more unlucky people than me these days?
In comparison, at this time, the one on his head was Du Chuke and his own people's Du Chuke!
Li Tai didn't say much, but turned his attention to Du Chuke and asked,
"What happened in the court? Didn't you go to Luoyang to be the Luoyang Order? Why did you send you here?"
"Because King Yan, you are developing Tuyuhun's plan, Duke Wei recommended me to the court!" Du Chuke said with a wry smile.
"I have just arrived in Luoyang and the stool has not even been hot, so I was sent here by a transfer order.
What I know is that you may not be much.
But I guess that letting me come here is more just for Xuan Ce to make a transition.
When Xuan Ce has the qualification to gain a foothold in the West Sea, I will be transferred back to Luoyang and will be on the Luoyang Order by then!"
For some people, the governor of Yizhou can be regarded as the peak of his life, but for a wealthy family like Du Chuke, especially a wealthy family with a right-hand man in the officialdom, the governor of Yizhou is just a position of gilding.
That's it.
In fact, this kind of thing is not only in ancient times, but also in modern times.
Even if China emphasizes "the prime minister must start from the state department, and the strong general must be from the army." But some people's official positions were state departments at the beginning, while some people's goal for the whole life was state departments.
There is a gap between people.
Du Chuke did not refuse this order, because this matter was proposed by Li Tai. In Du Chuke's opinion, he had done the work here and made Li Tai's plan successful. This was the most important thing for him, the Yanwang Party, to do the work here.
Things you should do.
...Maybe Li Tai's subordinates, Du Chuke, is working hard for Li Tai's throne...
"I can feel much more at ease if you take care of Xuan Ce!" Li Tai nodded and sighed at Du Chuke, "I'm afraid I'll have to work hard for several years!"
"It is necessary to do your best to do your best to be loyal to the country and to be loyal to the king. It is also a way for sages to educate the local people into our China!"
Du Chuke said to Li Tai without much care, but Du Chuke said with a serious expression when he said this.
"But I passed by Chang'an and heard that the Supreme Emperor was terminally ill in the wind infection. Maybe this month!"
"What?" Li Tai was stunned when he heard Du Chuke's words, but his expression quickly calmed down, and then said,
"I understand. This matter is subject to the news from the court. You don't need to say too much!"
"No!" The two present heard Li Tai's words and saluted Li Tai. They looked at each other and retreated.
"Is it time for Li Yuan?" Li Tai was not too sad when he heard the news, but was a little sad.
Because after the victory of the Xuanwu Gate of Li Shimin, Li Tai has never seen Li Yuan several times since he has remembered it.
In addition, I opened a mansion in the second year of Zhenguan, and I didn’t have much time to contact Li Yuan, so I was not sad when Li Yuan died.
But if I remember correctly, shortly after the death of the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, Empress Changsun, his mother, fell seriously ill and died the next year.
To be honest, although Li Tai has been running outside for a long time, he is still very close to Queen Changsun.
Every month, whether on the first day or the fifteenth day of the year, he always goes to the palace to meet Empress Changsun. In his heart, Li Tai really doesn't want something to happen to Empress Changsun.
But Empress Changsun was not the kind of person who suddenly died of illness, but the death of her biological mother, Mrs. Zhao Guo and the death of her Supreme Emperor Li Yuan. In addition, the recurrence of her anger caused her to be unable to return, which made Li Tai completely helpless.
Because Li Tai is not a doctor, let alone not know how to treat qi diseases by using traditional Chinese medicine. Even if it is Western medicine, I don’t know at all!
"It seems like I'm going back early!" Li Tai took a deep breath and waited for the obituary in Chang'an.
After all, Li Yuan is the Supreme Emperor, not the common people who are buried immediately after the first seventh.
Basically, we must preserve the body, all the royal children go to worship, and finally choose a good day to be buried. If you think you will be called back!