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Chapter three hundred and sixty seventh lamp under the loneliness

Li Siye had already hatched a plan in his mind, no, it should be multiple plans. Since he had too many ideas in his mind, he had to find notes to avoid these ideas disappearing like meteors.

After he returned to the mansion, he asked his servants to boil hot water, and then took a pleasant bath. He met Li Twelve Niang and Li Meier and had lunch together, which was considered a grand family dinner.

After the meal, he excused himself from being tired and went back to the study alone to gain some free time with Twelve Niangs and Li Meier.

He lit the oil lamp, spread out the paper, dipped the thinnest pen in ink, and began to write on the paper the problems encountered during this inspection and the solutions. It was nothing more than insufficient logistics supply capabilities, poor equipment capabilities, and military medical care.

The system is insufficient.

Logistical deficiencies are reflected in the lack of food. Only highland barley rice is not enough. At least wheat and flour are needed. The Tang army also actively cultivated fields in Qixi. In Shule town alone, they established seven villages, each with fifty hectares, which solved most of the problems.

For food supply, a small amount needs to be supplied by Hexi. But what can we do if there is only highland barley in the fields? The animal husbandry in Shule Town is pretty good, but many soldiers cannot eat one meal of meat a year...

In terms of military rations, expand the area of ​​military camps and introduce more wheat from Hexi to complement highland barley. Build a round-bottomed iron pot in the Shule Army to fry noodles, mix salt and mutton oil to make compressed biscuits, and expand it to the entire army.

Marinate the mutton more and find a salt ratio suitable for long-term storage. It is required that it can be stored in a well-ventilated environment for more than a year. The above two military-owned foods have the characteristics of long shelf life and easy portability. In the future, it is recommended to set up a special

department for manufacturing and distribution.

Set up veterinary stations in Shule City and in various prefectures, and hire people with experience in treating horses. There are many exposed rocks in the Gobi Desert in Shule area, which may cut horses' hooves. Horseshoes should also appear at this time. Not only should they appear, but they should also be promoted.

Go to the whole army and have every horse shoed.

Medical training classes were set up, and medical officers from the Anxi Army were invited to teach. The students were recruited from among the soldiers. Soldiers who could obtain medical training were rewarded with 10% more pay than other soldiers. This was an encouragement to learn.

There is another measure that requires spending a lot of money to encourage soldiers to buy private horses through subsidies. The final standard requirement is that each city and fort must have its own guard. Each soldier must have a horse to ride in the camp.

The elite troops such as the battle vanguard and the city defense battalion need two horses to meet the characteristics of a rapid reaction force, while the only two regiments of cavalry must reach three horses each.

Owning a horse is to provide soldiers with the supplies to fight independently in the field. Soldiers walking, horses, camels, dry food and fresh water can enable soldiers to have the ability to fight independently for two to three months without supply lines. This is the most basic requirement.

This does cost a lot of money, and it is unrealistic for the soldiers to pay for it. Although the price of horses during this period fell to the lowest point in history, the price of a Western Region Dun horse was 9,000 yuan. The entire Tang army in Shule had

If we do a survey of the Tibetan army consisting of 6,000 and 2,000 local people, it is estimated that nearly half of them do not have horses. Even if Shule and the soldiers each bear half of the burden, it will still cost more than 30 million

The money, converted into silver, is more than 30,000 taels, and converted into gold, it is more than 4,000 taels.

In the final analysis, it comes down to money.

He also hid a box of gold gifted by Mansour while he was guarding the area in Congling. Several big men worked together to carry this box of gold into the thatched hall. It was estimated to be between five and six hundred kilograms. In order to open up the cotton field in Congling,

I have spent a little of it, but once I use it this time, I am afraid I will spend half of it.

Of course, it is not yet time to take it away. Except for part of Shule’s annual business tax revenue, which is turned over to the Protectorate, most of it is retained as salary and office expenses for Shule local officials, and part of it is used for the Shule army.

He needed to discuss the matter with Pei Guoliang, who was the nominally highest official in Shule Town after all.

Let's estimate how much additional cost it will cost to add a recruit. This is something that must be considered. The daily necessities of the soldiers also need to be regularized. It is better to raise it and solve it from the beginning.

The mandatory personal items required by a Tang army include two pieces of sheep felt, two feet and five inches wide, six feet long, no more than five cents thick, and worth about forty yuan.

The cowhide water bag is worth 60 yuan, the dry food bag is less than 10 yuan, the walking belt is 20 yuan, the knife, the sharpening stone, the Qibizhen, the needle, the syringe, the flint, etc. are worth nearly a hundred yuan in total. Of course, there is no need to neglect these things.

Lezhen came to pay for it and gave you more than 900 yuan in salary every month. What is it used for?

There are also cooking utensils for eating. This must be solved. How can Doumun be used as a cooking bowl? The coarse porcelain bowls on the market now only cost ten cents each, and black pottery is cheaper, six cents. But these ceramics are fragile and are obviously not suitable for changing back and forth to guard the marching soldiers.

, this is why soldiers would rather use hoods than ceramics. However, for the sake of personal hygiene of the majority of soldiers, alternatives must be found.

What? Enamel? Stainless steel? Iron products? The first two are just a joke. Iron products are completely possible according to the current level of technology, but shouldn’t we consider the cost? Buy a bowl at a price close to that of a horizontal knife?

Whether it's forcing the soldiers to buy it themselves or collective purchasing in Shule Town, it's unbearable, okay?

He picked up his brush and checked out the line "cooking utensils" and wrote below that it was left to be resolved.

Next is the real big part, the part that gives even a half-hearted keyboard economist like him a headache, the iron horizontal sword with two thousand coins, the inferior fine scale armor, Shule Town's internal procurement from the Tang government, Shaofu Temple weapons

The price given by the supervisor was 20,000 yuan. The Turkic Dunma was 9,000 yuan, and together with the saddle, stirrup, bridle, and long whip, the price was close to 10,000 yuan.

Special arms cavalry will use horse rifles and infantry rifles. These two items are extremely expensive and are not included in the calculation. Even if they are standard equipment, ordinary soldiers usually have three pieces, namely a knife, a gun, a bow or a crossbow, which makes each person's blow more powerful.

The killing range is calculated starting from 70 steps. After calculating the cost of the gun and crossbow, it also costs nearly 3,000 yuan.

He calculated it with his fingers. After excluding the soldiers' personal belongings and special units, the basic configuration of a Tang army was 35,000 yuan. Even if the 10,000 yuan for the horses were excluded and they were allowed to prepare and buy the horses themselves, they would still need

Twenty-five thousand yuan, plus nine hundred for recruiting soldiers, is really a waste of money. No wonder the Anxi Protectorate, which is more than 5,000 miles away in the Western Region and is in charge of taxation on three trade routes, can only retain 25,000 people.

The army is so large that even if there are good men willing to join the army, they cannot afford to hire them.

The most fundamental reason is that the Western Region is barren. It cannot fully afford the military expenses and food consumption of the Anxi Army, and the population density is not enough to support recruiting troops. He will use this place as his foundation in the future. Even if he is lucky, he can be like Anlu Mountain, and he can get from the emperor

With Beiting and the Jiedu envoys from the two towns in Hexi in hand, the combined troops of the three towns did not exceed 130,000. It is said that in the 19th year of Tianbao, when Anlu Mountain rebelled, 150,000 troops were gathered and went south.

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Therefore, if he wants to make a difference, he must change the current situation in Qixi, develop agricultural business, attract immigrants from the interior, and increase the grain output to support an army of more than 60,000 people. In this way, when the Anshi Rebellion occurs, he can raise an independent army.

The armed forces fighting against the Anlushan rebels.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. From today on, Shule, which is slightly barren among the four towns in Anxi, will be used as a pilot to start his big plan.

This daydream was wonderful, but it was a pity that it was already night. I looked at the paper under my hand and wrote a lot of things in a daze. Unexpectedly, once my thoughts started to wander, I couldn't stop. If he thought of

Tomorrow morning, we will probably have a policy and strategy for taking over the entire earth.

Li Siye rubbed his eyes and stood up. A figure flashed in from outside, but it was Li Meier who came to the study with a tea cup.

"I just know that my brother hasn't slept yet. Drinking this bowl of fatigue-relieving tea from me will relieve your fatigue."

Li Siye picked up the tea bowl and looked out the lattice window at the door. Someone seemed to be moving, and he asked casually: "Is there anyone else outside the door?"

Meier squeezed her eyes and nodded: "Brother is right. I went to the Buddhist temple in Shule today to pray for incense. I met a Taoist who was proficient in Zhouyi divination outside the door, so I specially invited him back."

"The Taoist at the gate of the Buddhist temple? Is he going to play football?" He joked casually and asked, "Why do you invite a Taoist to your home?"

While talking, Li Meier winked at Li Siye, hinting that his mother-in-law was also hiding outside the door and eavesdropping, and told him to be more careful when he spoke.

"Today, my sister-in-law and I went to the Buddhist temple to burn incense. We met this Taoist priest by chance. Meier wanted to invite him to our home to use Kanyu techniques to find out which place is suitable for the bridal chamber, how to arrange it to achieve good Feng Shui, and more importantly, choose a suitable one.

On the wedding day, if my brother has no objection, I will invite this master to come in."

"Oh, okay, please come in." He absolutely couldn't object to this, after all, he had promised it himself.


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