Li Siye has returned to Kucha. Before entering the city, he specially gave Yan Xiaosi an order to lead a team of people to bring Twelve Niangs and their families to Kucha. Because in the next few years, the four towns of Anxi will be his.
The focus of the work is that most of the money earned by Pepper Logistics will be spent in oasis cities such as Yanqi, Qiuci, Shule, and Diazhuang City. The two points to be implemented are to reward farming and planned grazing.
The food issue is the key to Anxi, which will determine the maximum number of soldiers in Anxi. In the past few decades, the Anxi Protectorate has cultivated thousands of hectares of farmland in Qiuci, Shule and other places, and basically solved the problem of 24,000 soldiers.
Food is a problem, but once the people need to be mobilized for war, there will not be enough food. They need to use the food allocated by the court from Hexi. Not only does it increase the transportation cost, but it is also easy to get stuck.
He still doesn't know that he has been appointed as the governor of Hexi Province, but even if he takes this position, it is necessary to expand the number of troops in Anxi.
He decided to spend money to hire local people to expand several granaries in the four towns of Anxi. He wanted to maintain a grain storage of 400,000 dendrobium. It would be really convenient to have money, and many infrastructure projects would not be delayed.
At the same time, he wanted to secretly expand his troops, increase soldiers in small amounts, and continuously increase the strength of the Anxi Army. To do this, he must solve the problem of armor.
Nowadays, the biggest demand of the major vassal towns for the imperial court is armor, which is also the only technical blockade the imperial court has on the vassal towns. Even the two towns with strong strength, such as Fan Yang and Pinglu, do not have the ability to independently manufacture high-quality armor. This is a very complicated process. It requires too much
Many Armor Offices under the Northern Capital Armory Supervision under the Fu Temple worked together to create the armor. Each blade of the armor was finely forged with a hammer, and then mercury was added with lead powder, copper powder or gold powder for gilding and protection.
Rust is drilled with tools and then braided with rubber bands. Each set of armor requires multiple steps from smelting to casting to processing, which consumes a lot of manpower and craftsmen. It represents the ceiling of the craftsmanship level of the Tang Dynasty and belongs to the national defense technology.
Highly sophisticated.
The cost of a set of infantry armor is about three to four hundred yuan, and two sets of armor are equivalent to a bushel of pepper. In the early Tang Dynasty, the state provided armor free of charge, but when the recruitment system emerged in the later period, only the central government
The Sixteenth Guards and the Left and Right Longwu Yulin Army are provided by the imperial court for free. If each vassal town wants to obtain armor, it needs to pay a certain cost, but just having money is not enough to obtain it. It also needs to be approved by the Ministry of War.
The military capacity of the feudal town has been registered with the Ministry of War. If you want to order armor, you need to use scrap armor. If you want to expand the army due to casualties, you need to issue a registered residence for recruiting soldiers. It can be said that it is a carrot and a pit. This can also be regarded as a favor to the military of the feudal town.
a limitation.
However, the Jiedu envoys were also able to find ways to go against the policy. Some forged household registrations, bribed Ministry of War officials and the North Capital Ordnance Supervisor, and used the underground forces in Chang'an City to buy and sell armor, and even bribed the Longwu Army in the DPRK.
The Royal Forest Army colluded internally and externally to smuggle armor out as wealth, which meant that it would cost more money to buy it. A set of armor purchased through gray channels would cost about three times the price. No Jiedu Envoy could have such financial resources.
Even Li Siye could not carry out large-scale military expansion privately.
These gray and black transactions can only be carried out in small batches. Li Siye has no shortage of money in his hands. He wants to send a reliable person to Chang'an and let him smuggle armor to Anxi continuously. An Lushan must be doing it too.
In this matter, such a small amount of expensive armor is not enough to expand a large army. Therefore, in the process of Fan Yangpinglu's army expansion, ordinary soldiers used leather armor that was cheap and easy to make. Only this kind of armor prevented the feudal town from being choked by the central government.
.The methods are worth learning. You can use them to equip non-elite garrison troops. He will also use them when he takes control of Hexi in the future.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, Yan Xiaosi rushed to Qiuci with Mrs. Li's twelfth mother and her family. After more than a year, Li Siye was finally reunited with his family.
The height of his adopted children was almost up to his waist, and his biological son Li Zuoguo was already running around. He picked up the child and was filled with emotion. In an era when medical and health conditions were very poor, and in an era where early marriage and early childbearing were advocated, the eldest son
It is the guarantee of inheriting the family business.
He comforted himself in this way, don't worry too much, the child still belongs to this era and can be regarded as the heir to the original owner. He himself is lonely, a soul that does not belong to this era, and the goals he pursues have begun to become nihilistic and unclear.
He was not worried about his child's education at all, and he never thought about using his own thoughts to teach him, because it was unnecessary. The environment must be involved in shaping the three views. On the contrary, the three views molded out of thin air were incompatible with the times, and were easy to be confused.
Children cause unnecessary troubles. Contemporary traditional poetry including Confucianism is enough for him to cope with this era, why bother adding extraneous details.
The Twelfth Mother has not changed much. She is still gentle and pleasant, just like a standard image of a good wife and mother that can be remembered in history. During the years when Li Siye was promoted, as the main supporter of the family, she was awarded the title of wife by the imperial court.
Yiren was promoted to Gongren, then to Shuren, and later became a second-grade wife. In the future, she may become a first-grade imperial concubine, like Taijun She.
She may have learned from Daorou that her husband was forcibly given away four beauties by the emperor. Fortunately, he was not brought to Kucha, otherwise a family ethics war would break out. But Twelve Niang still refuses to give up, and she takes revenge.
The method is to ask for it at night and perform traditional skills on the energetic and fierce husband, which is comparable to Luhua 5s first-level squeezing technology.
As a result, half a month after the couple reunited, Li Siye felt that his body was overworked and seemed to be hollowed out. Twelve Niang's face was radiant, as if she had recovered her past debts.
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By the time the emperor's imperial edict appointing him as the governor of Hexi reached Qixi, it was already the first month of the twelfth year of Tianbao's reign. The eunuch who came to announce the edict was named Cheng Yuanzhen. These eunuchs who would be in power in the future had now begun to rise to prominence.
Now Cheng Yuanzhen's face is still very tender, like a pretty boy, and he is still trembling when facing a big boss like Li Siye. The Jiedushi of the three towns stood in front of him. He still lacked the confidence to declare the decree on behalf of the emperor, and his sharp tongue was trembling: "
Li Siye, the envoy of Anbeiting Jiedu, accepted the order!"
Li Siye wore a copper-colored mountain armor, a phoenix-winged pouch on his head, and a crimson brocade cloak tied behind him. Standing in front of Cheng like a mountain, he knelt on one knee, folded his hands, and responded loudly: "Your Majesty, Li Siye, respectfully welcomes the imperial edict."
Cheng Yuanzhen unfolded the bamboo slips with both hands and chanted loudly: "My disciples! I ordered the imperial censor, the general Youweiwei, the third division of Kaifu Yitong, the Zhuguo, the British company, the interview envoy of Longyou Road, the group of pastoral envoys, and the recruitment of troops.
The envoys were the military envoy of Beiting in Anhui, the governor of Qiuci, and the governor of Tingzhou. Li Siye concurrently served as the military envoy of Hexi and the governor of Liangzhou to consolidate the border and guard against Tubo's conquest. Chen Xilie, the servant of the family, announced..."
Li Siye crossed his hands again: "I thank your Majesty for your grace."
Cheng Yuanzhen slowly moved to Li Siye. Because he was kneeling on one knee, no, all the Anxi generals behind him were kneeling on one knee. The only one standing was Chen Yuanzhen. This gave him a huge sense of satisfaction, although he
He knew clearly that the person he was kneeling on was only the emperor, a symbol of imperial power, but he was now the emperor's spokesperson, at least maintaining this symbolic height. It was like a soap bubble ball floating high, although it would pop when you poke it, but in the
Before it was broken, it contained all the beauty.
He held the book above Li Siye's head and thought about it, with a smile on his lips, but he still did not put the book into Li Siye's hands.
Li Siye raised his head in confusion and frowned as he looked at the little eunuch who was giggling in front of him.
Cheng Yuanzhen suddenly woke up, and when he was looked at by Li Siye's indifferent eyes, his scalp suddenly felt numb. He hurriedly put the book in his hand, lowered his head and waved the fly whisk to cover up his gaffe, and secretly scolded him for being so complacent that he could easily get carried away.
Li Siye didn't pay much attention to this, and ordered Yan Xiaosi beside him: "Give Eunuch Cheng some of the hard-earned money for running away."
"Don't dare, don't dare."
"Take it." Yan Xiaosi stepped forward, and what was put into his hand turned out to be a gold collar. This surprised Cheng Yuanzhen. These Jiedu envoys were indeed rich, and they even used gold to reward eunuchs.