"Your Highness, good news, good news! Our army has conquered Songzhou and Wuzhou, and killed more than 16,000 enemies, which is a great victory! ”

"What?"

Hearing the news, Li Ye jumped up from his seat, hurriedly took the good news from Pei Rong's hand and read it, and then laughed.

"Yes, this Shi Ling really didn't disappoint this king, Qin Yi'an is not bad, I didn't expect a martial arts student to grow to this point, it's very useful." Li Ye smiled a little from ear to ear.

Although he only recovered Songzhou and Wuzhou, and was frustrated in the attack on Chengzhou, it still made Li Ye happy. Although the results are not large, they are significant.

"Although General Shi and Commander Qin have meritorious service, if it were not for His Highness's strategy, how could there be this great victory." Li Zhen said with a smile.

"Sycophants." Xiao Yu scolded in his heart, the other party is still from a famous family, and he has no backbone at all.

"What Li Changshi said is reasonable." Pei Rong echoed.

"How much credit this king can have, this is all earned by the lives of the soldiers below." Although he knew that the two of them were sycophants, Li Ye was still very useful in his heart.

"Your Highness, such good news should be presented to Your Majesty and those who have made meritorious contributions should be rewarded." Xiao Yu on the side reminded.

"The king has forgotten that." Li Ye patted his forehead and said with a smile.

"Your Highness, Songzhou and Wuzhou have been recovered, I don't know how Your Highness plans to settle these two states?"

How to settle these two states, Li Ye didn't think about it before, he originally intended to give Dongchuan or Shannan West Road, but it depends on Zheng Congyan's meaning that he has other plans.

"What good advice does Zheng Shizhong have?" Li Ye said curiously.

"Returning to Your Highness, Songzhou has always been an important border town at the beginning of our dynasty until it was lost, and it is called the "gateway to Shuxi", which is the place where troops are used. Songzhou chokes the Minling, controls the source of the river, borders the river on the left, covers the heavens on the right, and locks the yin.

Therefore, during the Taizong period, the Songzhou Governor's Mansion was set up here to guard against Tibet. ”

As soon as Zheng Congyan finished speaking, Li Ye fell into deep thought, and had some doubts about whether to set up a governor's mansion in Songzhou.

Seeing Li Ye's frowns, Xiao Yu roughly guessed the reason, and immediately explained, "Your Highness, what Zheng Shi said is reasonable. His Royal Highness's concern was nothing more than the fear that the governor would support his own army and not be controlled by the imperial court.

However, Songzhou is a newly restored land, and our Han people are scarce, so if it is managed according to an ordinary state, it is not suitable. Moreover, Songzhou's geographical location is critical, and if it is managed in the way of an ordinary state, once an enemy army attacks, it will not be able to quickly respond to it.

Therefore, in the early stage, it was more appropriate to set up a capital for the transition of the prefecture recaptured from the hands of the Tubo and other nomads. When the situation is stabilized, the Governor's Office can be revoked. ”

Li Ye wants to cut the domain, Xiao Yu and Zheng Congyan know it. At present, Shannan Xidao, Fengxiang and Dongchuan seem to be still in power by the Jiedu Envoy, but neither the Right Tiance Army, the Right Yulin Army nor the Right Shence Army are under the jurisdiction of the Jiedu Envoy.

This means that the military power of the Jiedu envoy has been weakened, and the soldiers of the states and states under the jurisdiction of the Jiedu envoy are also under the command of the marching Sima, which is also a disguised weakening of the military power of the Jiedu envoy.

Isn't this a cutting domain?

At first, they thought that Shouwang would rashly promote the policy of cutting feudal domains, but soon they admired Shouwang more, indicating that Shouwang was not the kind of person who was happy and impulsive, and in their eyes, this Shouwang already had the potential to be a qualified king.

As for the one in the Daming Palace, they couldn't help it. Anyway, the world is all from the Tang Dynasty, and it doesn't matter who is the emperor, so they didn't participate in some of the plans of the Daming Palace, and they also kept a certain distance from Li Ye and wouldn't deliberately stutter.

To put it bluntly, they just remain neutral and wait for the situation to become clear.

"The Governor's Mansion?" Xiao Yu's explanation obviously convinced Li Ye, but he was also thinking about the candidate for the governor of the Metropolitan Mansion.

The Songzhou Governor's Mansion was the Lower Governor's Mansion in the early Tang Dynasty, and the Governor's grade was from the third grade.

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"Brother Huang, my Tang Dynasty has regained Songzhou again after more than 120 years, which is a great achievement. The younger brother asked the royal brother to issue an edict to commend him, and the relevant meritorious people. ”

"The younger brother asked Shi Ling to be canonized as the son of Huayang County, and Qin Yi'an as the male of Shu County。。。。。 Wang Jian was the governor of Songzhou. ”

"Everything is according to what King Shou said." Li Ye said a lot at once, but Li Yi didn't listen carefully, and nodded directly.

At the beginning, Li Yi was still making a lot of noise in the court, and now he is not noisy or noisy. What is the reason, Li Ye naturally knows, it is not that the other party recognizes the reality, but that the other party has other ideas.

In Li Yi's opinion, Li Ye won't be in the limelight for long, why should he oppose these little things?

Although Shi Ling and Qin Yi'an were named the men of Kai County, and the other was named the son of Kai County, although their titles are low, they are also the only two people under Li Ye who have titles besides Li Ye.

Although Pei Rong, Liu Qi, Sun Ye and others have high positions, they do not have titles.

Originally, it stands to reason that Songzhou was beaten down by Shi Ling, and it should be made to serve as the governor, but Li Ye thought about it for a long time and still asked Wang Jianlai. This historical careerist, Li Ye has always been uneasy, so he deliberately suppressed the other party.

Li Ye's deliberate suppression of Wang Jian was seen by Li Zhen and Li Yingxu, and they also asked the reason. He can't say that this Wang Jian has divided one side in history and established Qianshu, right?

However, Li Zhen and Li Yingxu confirmed that Wang Jian was indeed a more suitable candidate, and several other leaders from the loyal army all served as generals, and Wang Jian was a commander from the beginning, and now he is only a general, which can easily cause dissatisfaction.

Songzhou was a newly recovered place, and the Han people were scarce, although Wang Jian held military and political power, if he did not have the support of the imperial court, he would not be able to gain a foothold in Songzhou.

In the end, under the persuasion of the two, Li Ye agreed to let Wang Jian be the governor, which could be regarded as a test for the other party.

And Shi Ling and Qin Yi'an's recovery of Songzhou and Wuzhou can be regarded as a great achievement, and they cannot but be rewarded, so Li Ye thought of the title. Although these two titles belong to low-level titles, they are titles after all, and this identity is not the same as before.

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"His Royal Highness King Shou, we can provide excellent war horses to the imperial court every year, and hope that the imperial court can assist the Guiyi army."

Just when Li Ye was busy with the Songzhou Governor's Mansion, Zhang Huaiding, who had been in Chang'an for more than a month, finally found the door.

For this visitor from Hexi, Li Ye did not restrict the freedom of the other party. From Jin Yiwei's intelligence, I learned that this person has been wandering around inside and outside Chang'an City, and has also visited many officials, including Yang Fugong, but he didn't expect to return to his side in the end.

Li Ye put down his hand, squinted his eyes, and looked at this visitor from Hexi.

"How does Zhang Tingshi need the imperial court's assistance? If it is to help in terms of troops, please forgive the king for not being able to agree, and the court has no idea of using troops in Hexi at present. ”

"Your Highness, we don't need the imperial court to use troops against Hexi, we only need the imperial court to provide weapons, armor, etc. And we can provide war horses to the imperial court, and they are also the kind of excellent war horses, which can be provided with 20,000 horses at once. Zhang Huaiding gritted his teeth and said.

"Twenty thousand?" Li Ye looked at the other party curiously, "Can the Guiyi Army provide so many war horses?" ”

"Your Highness, don't worry. The Guiyi army did not lack war horses, but weapons, armor and people. Zhang Huaiding explained.

"Twenty thousand war horses? If you can really provide it, weapons and armor are not a problem, but you must know that a set of weapons and armor cannot be exchanged for a war horse. Li Ye said with a smile.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty knows that we don't want a full set, we only need the weapons that are urgently needed, especially armor."

"Don't worry, I'll talk about it after you read it."

"After reading it?"

Half an hour later, Zhang Huaiding understood what Li Ye meant after reading it, because he came to a very large workshop.

Seeing the workshop in front of him, Zhang Huaiding was directly stunned.

In front of me, there is a workshop of the Ordnance Supervision that has not yet been completed, and various buildings are densely distributed. Looking at the fine horse lance and armor in the warehouse, Zhang Huaiding couldn't wait to move the entire warehouse and the workshop to Liangzhou.

With such a workshop, his army will crisscross Hexi, and Zhang Huaishen, Suo Xun, Tubo, Uighur, and Wen Mo will not be his opponents at all.

If he knew that this workshop was not actually the largest workshop under the Armory Warden, he would only be ranked third.

Since Li Ye became the head of Chang'an, the Ordnance Department also moved to Chang'an and merged with the Ordnance Superintendent, and built a workshop inside and outside Chang'an City. In Chang'an City, it is mainly used to make bows, crossbows, armor, etc.; Outside Chang'an City, in Juxian County (i.e., Hu County), it mainly produces knives, guns, gunpowder, etc.

This place in Chang'an is located on the site of the Qinglong Temple in Xinchang Fang, because of the two wars, Chang'an suffered heavy losses, and the Qinglong Temple is also in the damaged building.

Therefore, Li Ye gave the land of Qinglong Temple to the Ordnance Superintendent, and then this workshop was built. It is close to Xingqing Palace and Yanxing Gate, and the traffic is relatively convenient.

Among the workshops under the jurisdiction of the entire Ordnance Superintendent, this workshop is the third largest and the largest workshop is in Xingyuan Mansion. Xingyuan Mansion, as Li Ye's starting place, has a self-evident status, and it is safe here, so Li Ye did not move all the anti-workshops of the former Ordnance Department over

Even so, the workshop in front of him still made Zhang Huaiding envious.

"Your Highness, can Your Majesty take a look at these weapons?" Zhang Huaiding's tone trembled.

"Naturally."

Li Ye raised his hand and saw Zhang Huaiding go to get the weapon, and Link Ke was standing on the side between the two.

Zhang Huaiding picked up a horse lance and carefully looked at the ordinary horse lance in the warehouse in front of him, his eyes flashing.

In Hexi, the craft of making horse lance has been lost. This is also very simple, the production process of horse lance is complex, the cost is high, and the wood consumption is extremely high, and Hexi has been in the perennial war since the Anshi Rebellion, and after the short rule of Tubo for decades, it fell into civil strife, and many crafts have been lost.

The horse lance is a very good weapon in the cavalry duel, and in the Tang Dynasty, the reason why the cavalry of the Tang Army can crisscross the battlefield is that the horse lance is an indispensable weapon. This weapon has an innate advantage over the scimitar, and these advantages can be used to the fullest in cavalry duels.

However, with the decline of the Tang Dynasty, it was impossible for the army to use extravagant and expensive horse lances, which had become a luxury in the armies of other feudal towns. The feudal towns that needed to maintain large troops did not have the money to equip the cavalry with horse lances, and even the armor began to be replaced with leather armor, which can be imagined.

However, for Zhang Huaiding and even the Guiyi army, if the cavalry could be equipped with horse lances, the chances of victory would be greatly increased in the face of attacks by the Uighurs, Tibetans and other nomads.

"Your Highness, we need horse lances, lots of horse lances!"

After testing the quality of the horse lance, Zhang Huaiding couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and said incoherently.

(End of chapter)