The weather was getting colder and colder, so Xiliang soldiers put the prepared houses in armor to keep them warm. At the same time, logistics personnel brought a large amount of food and grass, including a large amount of ferocious beast meat.
This is the winter food specially prepared by Li Xiang for the soldiers. The soldiers must maintain sufficient heat in the cold winter, and the meat of ferocious beasts is the best supplement.
A large number of ferocious beasts are killed by Xiliang soldiers in the northwest every day. The skins of the ferocious beasts removed will be used to make leather armor, and the meat will be sent to the south to be processed by farmers before being transported to various places.
In this way, Xiliang stored a large amount of ferocious beast meat for winter.
The war in the south is now tense, and a large amount of ferocious beast meat is needed to replenish energy for the soldiers.
Xiliang is a huge war machine. When it is not in motion, you may only see its sharp appearance, but when it is in motion, you will find that it is a huge whole.
Inside the sharp appearance, there is a huge power of war. Food and grass are supplied to the front line, so that the soldiers at the front will not be defeated due to food and grass problems.
Weapons, equipment and armor protect Xiliang soldiers from occupying favorable conditions on the battlefield. Enemy soldiers can be seen on the battlefield and chop on the armor of Xiliang soldiers.
body, easily cut open the enemy's wallet and chop the enemy to death.
The weapons and equipment of both sides are not at the same level at all, and the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang headquarters soldiers has further improved.
The Xiliang army is getting stronger and stronger, and the enemy is getting weaker and weaker. However, now that the enemy has a numerical advantage, the cold winter has come, which weakens the enemy's numerical advantage.
This is an opportunity for Xiliang's army. In the cold winter months, the enemy's logistical pressure is definitely greater than that in summer.
Moreover, due to the large number of enemy troops, there must be insufficient preparations for winter leather armor, etc. This is a good time for the Xiliang army to launch a large-scale attack.
The twelfth lunar month of winter is just like summer to the soldiers of Xiliang headquarters, because they were born outside the northwest pass, the coldest place, and they are born with a certain degree of immunity to the cold.
In addition, the weapons and equipment of Xiliang soldiers are mainly designed to resist the cold. The soldiers also carry a certain amount of wine. When their bodies feel very cold, they can take a sip of wine to warm up.
This makes the Xiliang soldiers' combat effectiveness far exceed that of the enemy in the cold winter.
The Lord also plans to eliminate the last two resistance forces on Diaoliangzhou in this cold winter, so that there will be no enemies to resist when spring comes next year.
By then, they can start large-scale development in Liangzhou. It will no longer be like this year. The entire Liangzhou will need to be supported by farmers in the northwest region, which will put even greater pressure on Xiliang's already somewhat unbearable yamen.
Zhang Qingyun had no choice but to borrow a large amount of money from Li Yi many times. These finances all need to be repaid, and then the Northwest Yamen will need to repay various taxes in the northwest.
People from the Northwest Yamen calculated that if they used various taxes to pay off their debts, it would take at least five years to pay off the debts they owed.
And this is based on the fact that they will not borrow money from Xiliang headquarters in the future, otherwise the debt will become more and more numerous and longer.
However, according to their current development speed and the territory they will rule next, their taxes and other incomes cannot support the entire yamen's expenses. When the time comes, they will definitely have to borrow money from other places.
Therefore, the best way is to end the war in Xiliang during the Chinese New Year this year and kill the enemy in the cold winter months. Only in this way can farmers cultivate the land in spring.
The Northwest Yamen can also take over all the land, shops and other places to the government, and then sublease these things to those businessmen, so as to regain some strength.
Otherwise, the debts they owe will only increase, and they will most likely become a money-making tool for Xiliang Headquarters' finance department in the future.
They don't want to live in the shadow of those from Xiliang, they want to gain more economy and achieve economic freedom.
This requires speeding up the process of unifying the land of Liangzhou. Do not underestimate Liangzhou. In the hands of the three major families in Liangzhou, Liangzhou has become a very poor area.
However, in the eyes of people in the Northwest Yamen, the land of Liangzhou is a treasure land of feng shui, because in the north of Liangzhou there are the Qiang and Xianbei nomads, and these nomads have a large number of cattle and sheep.
They can purchase these cattle and sheep in large quantities through trade. The most missing thing in the northwest now is these cattle and sheep. Cattle can be domesticated and become more cattle. Sheep can be killed for meat and sold for sheepskin, wool and other things.
Made into various clothes.
For the northwest, cattle and sheep are the greatest wealth. In the northwest, as long as you can transport these things, you don't have to worry about selling them.
Because all the cattle and sheep in the northwest region are in the hands of the lord, the lord has not sold any of his cattle and sheep in the past two years. All of them have been used as breeding sheep or cattle to expand the sheep and cattle herds.
After all, the Qingxi grassland is very huge, which means that the number of cattle and sheep under his command is far from enough to cover the entire grassland, so Li Xiang has been expanding the cattle and sheep herds.
This also leads to the fact that most of the beef and mutton in the northwest region are purchased from Liangzhou Dadi or other places. This also leads to the price of beef and mutton in the northwest region being higher than other places. However, compared with other places
place.
The civilians in the northwest region have much more property in their hands than people in other regions. Because the Lord treats the civilians so well, every civilian has a lot of money in their hands.
As soon as the beef and mutton purchased from other places were put on the market, they were all bought by farmers in an instant. Basically, people who have lived in the northwest region for two or three years have enough money to feed their families.
This has also led to a very high quality of life for civilians in the northwest region, and a very strong sense of happiness. The only drawback is that there is really little beef and mutton, so they cannot eat meat often.
Even if the farms and pastures established by farmers in Xiliang produce large quantities of chickens, ducks and fish every once in a while, they are not enough to support the daily needs of civilians in the northwest region.
This is okay in normal times, but once there is a war, it will be extremely difficult for civilians to buy some meat, because all the chicken, duck, and fish meat produced in Xiliang will be given priority to the soldiers on the front line.
Being a soldier in Xiliang is a very good thing. If you join the army, your whole family will be honored. After becoming a soldier in Xiliang, you will have a large supply of meat every day, and there will also be a supply of cultivation methods.
You will also get some training resources every once in a while, and if your training talent is good, there will be additional supplies.
This also resulted in everyone in the northwest region who had some talent for cultivation to join the army. The group of people in the army can be said to be the best group of people in the entire northwest region.
"General manager, everything is ready!" In Tongtian Hecheng, the largest port city in the northwest region, Zhang Qingyun, as the general manager of the northwest, is the first time that he has personally managed the goods.
The value of this batch of goods is so high that even if the people under my command can't help but take some, even if they only take some, it will be enough for one person to live happily for the rest of his life.
These goods are all ferocious beast meat supplied by the Northern Army, and all of them are high-grade ferocious beast meat. In addition to meat, there are also a large number of weapons and equipment.
This was the material prepared by the lord to unify Liangzhou. The person responsible for transporting the materials for the first time was Li Shui, commander of the Xiliang Navy, who personally delivered it.
Along with them were tens of thousands of elite troops from Xiliang. These were all soldiers who came to transport this batch of materials, so they also knew how precious this batch of materials was.
"Let all our people withdraw. Next, all these supplies will be transported by the people from Xiliang headquarters!"
Zhang Qingyun said to the people next to him, staring closely at the goods in front of him.
The workers who received the order walked back from the goods. Beside them stood burly soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters wearing armor.
The soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters never took their eyes off these workers. In the Xiliang area, there are a large number of fine works from other forces.
The first batch of supplies was related to the Lord's unification of the land of Liangzhou, and there could not be any mistakes, so they never took their eyes off these workers.
Because if the enemy wants to do anything, they can only do it on these workers, because they have no chance of encountering these substances in the future.
Next, all the personnel from the Xiliang headquarters were escorted, with a large number of ships escorting them on both sides, and General Li Shui, who had become a first-rate powerhouse, suppressed them among the army.
A great master followed him throughout the whole journey. Such an escort team made those who wanted to inquire about the information turn around and run away when they saw it.
Therefore, if the enemy wants to do something, they can only do something to these workers. Many enemies have been killed by the scouts along the way to transport these supplies.
Since learning various techniques from Qianjimen, the combat effectiveness of Xiliang scouts is much higher than that of other forces. The only drawback is that the soldiers of Xiliang headquarters are too burly.
This gave Xiliang headquarters soldiers some disadvantages in some aspects, but these disadvantages were quickly eliminated by them using various methods and equipment.
After Li Shui personally inspected the goods, he strode to Zhang Qingyun and said with a smile: "Manager Zhang, I will take these goods away."
"General, please excuse me." Zhang Qingyun smiled when he saw Li Shui coming over in person. Li Shui coming over in person meant that there was nothing wrong with the goods.
His mission was completed at this moment. Transporting these supplies has been the biggest task of the Northwest Yamen in recent times. These supplies took the route of their Northwest Yamen, and many of them were collected by their Northwest Yamen.
The content of this was very crucial, so when Li Shui received it in person, Zhang Qingyun felt a sudden light on his shoulders, and the pressure was relieved.
Now some people around Zhang Qingyun secretly looked at the tall and mighty general in front of them. This was the commander of the Xiliang Navy, and also the most powerful and one of the five most effective generals under the lord, Li Shui.
It is said that this general controls 100,000 Xiliang troops. Those are 100,000 Xiliang troops, not armies like the Seventh and Eighth Legions.
The people behind Zhang Qingyun were very curious about this general who was deeply loved by his lord. Everyone wanted to get closer to the generals in Xiliang headquarters. Unfortunately, except for Zhang Qingyun, no one else had seen a few of them.
General of Xiliang headquarters.
Even the senior generals in the Seventh and Eighth Legions would find it difficult to meet the generals at the top of the Xiliang headquarters, because the status between the two sides is not at the same level at all.
Many people understand that the role of the Seventh and Eighth Legions when they were first established is that the Seventh Legion is better. After all, there are several generals in the Seventh Legion who are deeply loved by the lord.
Except for the commander of the Eighth Legion, basically no one else can see the Lord.
Everyone wanted to find a way to get closer to these generals who held high positions and guarded the air with heavy troops. Unfortunately, basically no one succeeded because they didn't even have a chance to enter the military camp.
These Xiliang headquarters generals are basically in the military camp most of the time.
This is also the first time many people have seen Li Shui.
"Your internal affairs must be resolved as soon as possible. I heard from people who came back that the Lord was very angry after receiving that letter." Li Shui stood next to Zhang Qingyun and said softly: "I don't want you to be in trouble because of those people."
If you are having trouble with the lord, you also know his character very well. The lord takes death very seriously, so you'd better deal with them quickly, otherwise some people may die when the lord comes back and handles it himself."
Several people behind Zhang Qingyun also heard Li Shui's words, and they secretly tried to figure out the meaning of Li Shui's words.
Zhang Qingyun smiled bitterly and said: "I know, I will deal with them as soon as possible!"
After hearing this, Li Shui patted Zhang Qingyun on the shoulder: "In this case, I will feel relieved. I heard that you owe Li Yi a lot of money. If you are really short of money, you can borrow some from me. I am a member of the navy.
Although the funds are not a lot, they are still quite a lot.”
Zhang Qingyun glanced at Li Shui helplessly: "I already owe Manager Li a lot of money, and now you want to tempt me to borrow your money. Isn't this driving our Northwest Yamen to death?"
Li Shui shrugged helplessly: "Who told us that all the tariffs of our Navy are in your hands? No matter how much we earn, we have to send part of it to you. I just want to give you my own money first and not send any money later.
I gave it to you."
"Don't even think about this problem." Zhang Qingyun directly rejected Li Shui. Now the tariff on Dahe is the most important source of income for their northwest yamen. Without Dahe's income, he can't even support his officials.
"Okay!" Li Shui smiled and took back his hand, "I'll send the things over first."
