At this time, Yang Tong took the Xuanjia Army to inspect the 'world', and in addition to Fang Xuanling, Luo Shixin, and Shui Tianji. Huining County was the focus of the inspection.

Huining County, which was later known as the Baiyin area, now has a very small jurisdiction, and there is only one county seat in the jurisdiction, and it is also the seat of the county, and the county name is Liangchuan County.

In the Sui Dynasty, the climate was mild, rainfall was abundant, the vegetation was lush, the land was fertile, and the population was relatively dense. It is close to the Yellow River, since the opening of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, it has always been one of the important towns leading from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, known as the "Cardinal of Qinlong", and is known as the "Famous Yi of Longshang".

However, the population of Huining is mainly concentrated in the northern area east of the Yellow River, while in the western part of the southern half, due to the overlapping mountains, there is little arable land, and most of them are distributed in the Gobi and grasslands, and the Qiang, Di and other ethnic minorities are mainly distributed in this area.

The greatest wealth of Huining County is the huge reserves of gold, silver and copper, which have been produced here since the Han Dynasty.

At this time, Yang Tong and the others, accompanied by the county guard Xue Wanjun and other local officials, walked along a mountain range for about twenty miles, and what appeared in front of them was a mountain range full of stars of silver-gray and earthy yellow, and it was obvious that the copper ore and silver ore exposed outside the rocks were now, and now, many Turkic officials and slaves were in full swing mining.

On the left side of the mountain range is a river called Zuli Chuanshui, which is several zhang wide and flows directly into the Yellow River.

"How far is the river from the Yellow River?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, there are still about thirty miles away from the Yellow River, out of this valley, and then go to Liangchuan County, the county seat is built in the place where the water of Zuli River flows into the Yellow River. The ore was sorted here, and was sent to Lingwu County by Wuli River to be smelted, and finally sent to Yecheng. ”

"Why don't you do it all at once here? Wouldn't that save a lot of weight? Shui Tianji asked.

Xue Wanjun said: "Back to Concubine Wu, Lingwu County contains a lot of coal, but Huining does not. Of course, this is changing, because the ships that travel between Hoeryeong and Lingwu will not be empty, and often the ore will be transported from here, and after Lingwu is unloaded, it will come back with coal. Some of them traveled back and forth between the official roads by horse-drawn carriages, and with the strong support of overland coal, the ore is now smelted in Huining, and then the crude silver and copper bricks are sent to Lingwu for refining. ”

"Is there a finished product?"

"Yes, Your Highness, please come with me!" Xue Wanjun led everyone to a heavily guarded dock warehouse. Thousands of square and crude silver and copper bricks are stacked inside.

Yang Tong, Fang Xuanling, Luo Shixin, Shui Tianji and others observed carefully and couldn't help but praise.

Yang Tong casually picked up a silver ingot, weighing about three hundred catties, but this was just a thick silver brick, and it still needed to be refined.

Xue Wanjun introduced: "The crude silver bricks and copper bricks each weigh 300 catties, and they are cast by fixed molds, and the weight will be reduced by one or two percent after refining, although there is a deviation, but it is not big!" Huining's side is now mainly responsible for refining, and then sending it to Lingwu refining, and once the accounts of the two sides are paired, an accurate number will be obtained. ”

Smelting in two places, although it is a little troublesome. But first, the supply of coal is insufficient; Second, it can also avoid criminals from making profits, because after refining the coarse finished product, it will produce a fixed amount, once the account is checked, it will be found whether the refining link has been stolen, although it is not guaranteed to be 100%, but ninety percent of the finished products will eventually fall into the pocket of the imperial court, and the Great Sui can only be traded in coins, so even if someone is greedy, it can only be used as a collection, and cannot suck away the wealth of the world, of course, it can also be made into silver, bronze and sold, but overall, the impact is not great. However, it also needs a loyal and cautious person to sit in the Lingwu ring, which is very likely to ensure that silver and copper will not be lost.

Looking at the crude silver bricks and copper bricks that were urgently about to be moved to Lingwu refining, a heartfelt joy also rose from Yang Tong's heart, and he seemed to see the heyday of the world's resources flowing to the Great Sui. He was well aware of what it meant to have capital with the ability to issue money. Although he was overjoyed in his heart, he still forcibly restrained the excitement in his heart, and said to Zhou Can, who was guarded by Tongshou: "General Xue is in charge of military affairs, so he doesn't have much time to spend here!" Lord Zhou wants to take over all the government affairs of Huining. Next, it is necessary to intensify mining and smelting. ”

"Your Highness, please rest assured, this matter will be handled properly. It's just that the miners are still a little insufficient, otherwise, more ore will be mined! Zhou Can said.

"You just have to rest assured about this, but in the future, if there are prisoners of war, priority will be given to Huining."

"Your Highness!"

Yang Tong nodded, and said to Xue Wanjun: "Huining is a treasure land, and the wealth contained in it is far inferior even to the entire Guannei Dao combined, and General Xue is in charge of it." ”

Xue Wanjun nodded and said: "The last general hoarded troops in Huishou City and Dingxi City south of Huining, and set up fortresses and beacons between the two cities to strictly prevent the Tang army from entering. It's just that Jincheng County of Liang Shidu has fallen into the hands of Li Tang, and Huining is now adjacent to Tianshui in the south and Longxi in the west. ”

"If you have any requests, just ask." Yang Tong understood Xue Wanjun's worries very well, this place is too close to Guanzhong, if a war happens, Li Yuan can transfer hundreds of thousands of troops and countless good generals within a few days, it is really difficult for Xue Wanjun to keep the treasure of Huining.

"The last general hopes that the three counties of Wuwei, Pingliang and Honghua can share part of the pressure."

This is also a big problem, with Huining's wealth and Li Yuan's urine, as soon as the contract period comes, maybe he will really attack Huining, Yang Tong pondered for a moment, and then said: "Go back to Liangchuan County first." ”

Five hundred Xuanjia soldiers escorted Yang Tong and others to Liangchuan County, dozens of miles away, and when they arrived at the county office, Yang Tong immediately got together with Fang Xuanling and Xue Wanjun to discuss, and he had already made a decision along the way, and said directly to Fang Xuanling: "Transfer Yang Yuanhong to be the county guard of Lingwu, the former county guard of Lingwu Inspection School Wang Fubao to the Pingliang county guard, transfer the Shuofang county guard Pei Xingyan to the Honghua county guard, and Shuofang County Chengjin to the county guard." ”

"Whoa!" Fang Xuanling wrote down four appointments, and Xinying took them to fly to various places.

These from the end of the millet of the eagle each after a hundred tests, none of them have been wrong, can be of great use, now the counties of the Great Sui, there is a letter eagle collection and release point, this with the existence of the eagle, will greatly reduce the time of communication, 800 miles of expedited directly compared to the speed of the turtle.

Not long after the three eagles flew away, a goshawk's chirping suddenly came from the sky, Yang Tong looked up, only to see a goshawk circling over, Yang Tong saw an inconspicuous black tube tied to the eagle's legs, and his face suddenly turned black: "Xinying, fly back!" ”

"It seems that this thing is not reliable, and it still has to rely on eight hundred miles to expedite." Fang Xuanling also sighed. If Xinying can transmit information, how many fighters should it win for the Great Sui, it's a pity!

At this moment, a hawk slave ran out of the yard, he shouted and beckoned to the goshawk, the eagle gathered its wings and landed on his shoulder, the eagle slave took off the letter tube and handed it to a sergeant in Xuanjia, and he took out a piece of fresh meat from the bag to reward the eagle.

The soldier rushed forward and presented the letter to Yang Tong, "Your Highness, this is the Eagle Letter of Wuyuan." ”

"Not just now?"

Yang Tong and Fang Xuanling glanced at each other, and both saw this sentence from each other's eyes, and then they were happy at the same time, Yang Tong smiled: "It seems that Xinying is still reliable, but it was too much of a coincidence, so we had a misunderstanding." ”

Fang Xuanling nodded violently!

The letter tube was engraved with the word 'Wuyuan', Yang Tong took out the letter, read it in a hurry, his eyes showed surprise, and he turned back to Fang Xuanling, who had an expectant face, and said: "Shubao defeated the 100,000 army of Jieli Khan at the Yema River north of the Great Wall, and destroyed more than 50,000 enemies in this battle, captured more than 26,100 people, and captured more than 179,000 war horses!" There were also more than 200,000 sheep that the Turks used as military rations, as well as a number of dried meat and barley. ”

Fang Xuanling was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "What about Ashina Simo?" How much to lose"

Yang Tong explained Qin Qiong's tactics, and then said speechlessly: "Ashina Simo has killed more than 40,000 people. Poor Ashina Simo actually wants Uncle Bao to be handsome! ”

"Uncle Bao is amazing! usually looks like a very honest person, and it is impossible to find fault with his teammates......" Fang Xuanling slapped his forehead excitedly, Ashina Simo lost half of his troops after the battle, and for Da Sui, it will not pose a threat for the time being. But after a while, he added, "But you can't do it! This time it's hard to find fault with, and the next time it's hard to say! And Ashina Simo will definitely go out of the fortress to plunder the population, which also means that his army will still be big, and it will also threaten the Great Sui! ”

Now in order to ascend to the position of the Turkic Great Khan, Ashnasimo bites people everywhere like a mad dog, outside the White City, north of the New Great Wall, and the distance of three or four hundred miles to the north after bypassing Yinshan Mountain has been plagued by him again and again, and there are few Turkic people, and it is this kind of crazy plundering that has led to the rapid development of Ashnasmo's strength. Although he sacrificed half of his troops this time, within a year, he could still grow up by plundering the battle.

"What does Xuan Ling think?" As soon as Yang Tong saw Fang Xuanling's strange gaze, he knew that this thing had an idea.

Fang Xuanling said: "Huining's huge mine, the quality is quite good, but it requires a lot of manpower to mine, if you hire people, you naturally need to pay wages and food, this is a huge expense, and the mine is very dangerous, there will always be accidents such as landslides, if the miners are all foreign prisoners of war and slaves, not only save wages, even if they die, they don't have to compensate!" ”

"So ......" Yang Tong looked at Fang Xuanling and smiled: "Next, are you going to carry out the slave trade?" ”

"Those who know me, Your Highness!" Fang Xuanling nodded with a smile and said: "In the past, I traveled in the Turks and found that they sold slaves as cattle and sheep, and the price depended on ability. We seized a large number of sheep on each expedition, which we used to exchange slaves for slaves rather than a headache. In this way, our free miners are available, and after Ashina Simo and they get the benefits, they will be even more crazy to plunder Mobei, thus exacerbating the contradictions between the two sides, and with a little way, the soldiers will sell the prisoners of war and slaves in their hands, which not only delays the battle of Ashina Sima's army, but also consumes his war potential. ”

"Women were the equivalent of goods among the Turks, they were always bought and sold as slaves, they did not have much belonging to their own people, and being able to marry Han Chinese and have a stable home was a fatal temptation for them. But adult men, it is difficult to erase the hatred of our Han people, and gather these people together to mine, I am afraid that these people will kill officials and rebel! Speaking of this, Yang Tong looked at Fang Xuanling with some hesitation, frowned, and said: "The Turks used to be slaves of the Rouran Khanate, and because they did the hardest and most tiring work, they rebelled against Rouran under the leadership of Ashina Tumen!" ”

"I've thought about this too!" Fang Xuanling smiled and said: "The reason why Ashina Tumen was able to provoke the Turkic rebellion was that he was full of personal charm and was born a leader, however, there are very few such people; The second is that the Rouran people only know oppression and do not give the Turks a glimmer of hope, so everyone followed Ashina Tumen to rebel. We might as well be softer, give a certain number of official status quotas every six months, and select people who perform well from among the many miners, so that they can join our Dasui and enjoy the same treatment as the people of Dasui, and they will work harder for us if they have hope. ”

Yang Tong was amazed, Lao Fang's hand was exactly the same as the little devil's method of absorbing the second devil, but the effect was really good. And this is after all in the Great Sui itself, the Turks have a natural sense of fear, and it is much easier to tame than the little devils: "Is there anything else? ”

"In siege warfare, all dynasties and dynasties will let death row prisoners form a dare to die, instead of the army to consume the enemy's defense of the city, as long as those who are lucky enough to survive, they will be sentenced to death by the team, and their status as civilians will be returned!" Fang Xuanling said: "In the future civil war, the siege is a hurdle that cannot be overcome, and the siege of the city often represents a large number of casualties!" We might as well learn from the method of siege by death row prisoners, praise the Turkic miners who have made meritorious contributions, and give them official status! There is often one out of ten who are alive, and among the 10,000 people, only one or two thousand people can live. ”

"The Turks and other nomadic peoples, thirteen or fourteen half-grown men have gone into battle to kill the enemy, and this category of people can be classified as prisoners of war and slaves; Turkic children under the age of 12 can be put into Yixue to learn Han culture from an early age, instilling the concept of Han supremacy, and within ten years, they will be proud of the Han people and ashamed of their status as aliens. ”

Yang Tong looked at Fang Xuanling again and again, and had to accept it in his heart, this politician was really black-hearted, and he looked like a compassionate saint on the surface, and he did things lacking morality, and his face did not change.

Really talking about the black heart, Yang Tong asked himself if he couldn't compare to Fang Xuanling, this guy is so black, no wonder he can be the prime minister in history for decades, if Fang Xuanling wasn't black, he would have been killed by his political enemies a long time ago, how could he do it for so long?

"That's it! But let's change the routine and set the price of the Turkic woman as the highest! ”

"But why?"

Yang Tong found that Fang Xuanling's eyes were a little weird, and said with a dark face: "The mortality rate of children on the grassland is much higher than that of the Great Sui, if a large number of women are lost, where can the Turks be born?" This can be regarded as a direct reduction in the reproduction rate of the Turkic population! Among them, select the singles who are better and are allowed to be married to our army, and the rest can be allowed to the ordinary people who are singles, so as to make contributions to the reproduction of the population of our Great Sui...... Old house, what do you really think? Why are the minds so dirty! ”

"Haha!" Fang Xuanling snorted embarrassedly, thinking about it carefully, Yang Tong was indeed not that kind of womanizer, and shook his head at the moment: "I'm thinking, in this way, I'm afraid that within five years, the Turks will begin to weaken, and then they will perish......"

Yang Tong sneered: "Of course, this premise is that Ashina Simo is a little more angry. At the same time, we not only need to organize the slave trade, but also need a city to complete the transaction, Yongfeng County in Wuyuan County is actually good, the population is small, and the city is strong, so I decided to use Yongfeng County as a trading city for the slave trade, and there are 6,000 soldiers and horses stationed to maintain law and order. ”

Yongfeng County is located in the west of Wuyuan, surrounded by the Yellow River on three sides, only the east can go to Wuyuan County, and there is a mountain range in the middle, but there is also an official road to go, the location is very good!

"I also think Yongfeng is more suitable, but the matter of trade ......"

"Leave it to the Ministry of Commerce! In short, this matter should be deployed as soon as possible! In order to avoid the Turkic flooding in the country, it can only be operated by the government, and the people are not allowed to buy slaves privately. ”

"Whoa!"

Fang Xuanling responded, although the slave trade bazaar was not established, and the system was even more not, it could learn from the mutual market policy formulation, and there must be no problem on Ashina Simo's side, as long as the officials supervised the official history in place, everything would fall into place.

Although Yang Tong has tried his best to stabilize the governance, but also has the strength to expand new territory, but in less than two years, successively annexed and annexed the state, Guanbei eleven counties, the territory has expanded by as much as two times, Yang Tong is ready to cultivate the people's livelihood, and so on three and a half states after the consolidation, began to build a complete set of economic system, with the region as the center, to the south of the radiation of the entire Central Plains, to the west of the huge economic network of the countries of the Western Regions, and constantly through this economic network to plunder the surrounding countries to absorb wealth, to meet the rapid development of the economy under his rule, This is also an important reason for retaining Wuwei County, because Wuwei County is the eastern section of the Hexi Corridor leading to the Western Regions, and its geographical location is very important. If Li Tang wanted to open up the Silk Road, he could only defeat the Liang Shidu and Xue Renyue brothers who had already formed an alliance.

As for the grasslands in the north, it is not in Yang Tong's imagination, mainly because the development value of Mobei is not great, and this will be the key area of assimilation, of course, the process will inevitably be full of blood and cruelty.

(For the sake of this book, I don't have time to spend with my family, my family has a lot of opinions, and recently I have been miserable and disgusted by my daughter-in-law and daughter...... Can brothers who have monthly passes and recommended tickets come to comfort and comfort? ? Every day until midnight, I lost a few pounds, and I implore my brothers to support the genuine version, which is just a few cents for you, but it is a great motivation for me...... ）

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