Chapter Seventy-Seven: The New Change in Anxi Abolish Conscription

Chen Ying was also very surprised, spanning thousands of years of time and space, he actually saw football in this era.

Of course, this football is a toy that Chen Ying made out to entertain the soldiers of the Anxi Army in his spare time in the Western Regions. However, Chen Ying's invention failed completely, and the rules of football completely changed in the eyes of the soldiers of Anxi.

When they pass the ball, they don't rely entirely on their feet, more often than not, they run like rugby. At this time, Datang's football can be said to be a mixed variety of football and rugby.

Football in this era, the softness of football and later generations of football can not be compared, although the use of pig urine bag is easy to inflat, however, the pig urine bubble can not withstand the toss, in the pig urine bubble outer layer wrapped in a layer of cowhide, although to solve the problem of firmness and flexibility, however, with the foot, it is still not easy.

Braving the bitter cold, thinly dressed athletes, running on the football field. Suddenly, the No. 10 player of the red team snatched the football from the feet of the No. 7 team, flew up, and kicked the ball hard at the RED team No. 1, and the BLU No. 5 hurriedly rushed over to intercept it, and the RED team No. 1 also rushed to the ball.

Unfortunately, they were all one step too slow, and the red team number one had not yet received the ball, but was tackled by the blue team number five.

Of course, it was a foul steal. During the soccer flight, BLU Team Five's jumped up and held the soccer ball with both hands. RED's No. 7 and No. 13 are ready to flank left and right.

The blue team No. 5 held the ball and threw it to the blue team No. 7, the blue team No. 7 just caught the ball, and then he only felt that his eyes were dark, his body was crooked, and he fell into the dust with a standard Wang Bada turning over action, and the ball had long been snatched away by a guy who lacked virtue and smoked.

When Chen Ying saw this scene, he didn't care about explaining it to Li Xiuning, but scolded loudly: "Lao Tzu, fucking again, you elm heads, eight lifetime idiots and stupid people who were kicked by a donkey, let Lao Tzu listen clearly, this is football, not rugby raised by his grandmother and bitch......"

Of course, Chen Ying's voice was drowned out by a burst of cheers.

At this moment, the blue team No. 3 finally snatched the football back from the red team No. 8. However, the No. 3 of the blue team took advantage of the main players of the red team to press on the door of his blue team, and turned to not look at it, so he came with a long pass after the clearance.

Outcome...... The soccer ball actually went straight into the RED team's net.

Chen Ying looked at this scene, dumbfounded.

The No. 3 shot in the penalty area, and although the football field is extremely rudimentary, it is a standard football field. This shot is definitely more than 85 meters.

The crowd immediately boiled.

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Chen Ying did not stay in Liangzhou, and turned towards Anxi non-stop along the way.

Fortunately, the Chi Road from Anxi has been repaired to the territory of Liangzhou.

From Liangzhou City to the west, all of them are four-lane galloping roads on both sides. The sled, which was originally used for transport, was loaded with wheels and then entered the track of the galloping road, and even the coachman did not need it, and the four-wheeled carriage that entered the track had no way to come out again, even if the wheels of the carriage were broken, they had to pass through the track and temporarily stop in the emergency lanes on both sides.

When the carriage enters the track, the driver does not have to drive carelessly, and can directly hide in the carriage to keep warm. Anyway, the horse pulling the cart knows how to rest until the post station.

Due to the appearance of Chidao, the speed of Chen Ying and his party more than doubled. Originally, in the section of the road where there was no gallop, even Chen Ying, an all-mule and horse-based army, could only advance 150 miles a year. Unexpected blizzards, not even a hundred miles forward.

However, on the gallop. These four-wheeled carriages can travel at least 300 miles a year.

Seeing that the Chidao was built so quickly, Li Xiuning was surprised.

After all, Li Xiuning knew that when Chen Ying left Anxi, there were three towns and nineteen prefectures in Anxi, and a total of about 300,000 households in more than 100 counties, less than 1.5 million people.

The Western Regions have been fighting for many years, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and one manpower is the wealth of gold. So, there is a very short supply of manpower. It is necessary not only to graze in the fields, but also to reclaim the wasteland, and to exploit the mineral resources.

When it is fully calculated, the manpower that Anxi can mobilize to build the gallop road will definitely not exceed 50,000 people. However, this is less than three years. Anxi's population has long been in a state of blowout.

Today's population of Anxi has already exceeded the 3 million mark. Among them, more than sixty percent of the young adults are war slaves of all ethnic groups and tribes in the Western Regions.

The Anxi Protectorate has formed a feasible system for how to transform war slaves.

First of all, there were some unruly and unruly rebels among the war slaves, and in order to stimulate their enthusiasm, Chen Ying let these stubborn and unruly war slaves all be drawn out to form a slave hunting army. They were in Anxi, Tibet, and the Sassanid Empire. Even within the borders of the Byzantine Empire, the criminal slave trade was carried out.

For the craftsmen who could work, after the slave catchers were caught, they used the craftsmen to open mines, build roads, dredge ditches, and even build villages and towns in Tuntian.

After all, Anxi is different from the mainland, Han and Hu live together, and the people here are fierce, and now the national strength of the Tang Dynasty is still good, these Hu people dare not be too arrogant, but once the national strength declines, there will definitely be a bloody national vendetta...... In fact, the immigrants of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions have long been gone.

For this reason, Chen Ying decided to adopt the system of setting up prefectures and counties in Anxi, and towns and forts. Avoid the dispersion of immigrants.

Because, at this time, the Western Regions not only has a harsh climate, but also a paradise for wild beasts. Fierce wild boars, wild wolves, bears, you name it all.

In addition to building large-scale projects led by the government, such as building cities and repairing and dredging ditches, some of the war slaves in the Anxi Prefecture were temporarily rented to merchants and then distributed to major workshops.

Whether it is agriculture and animal husbandry, repairing canals and dams, or building sentry posts, they are all soldiers of the Tang Army who monitor the construction of canals, dams and sentry posts by war slaves; Among the generals, the bad horses were taken down and used for ploughing the fields......

On December 29, the second year of Kaiyuan, Chen Ying and his entourage entered the territory of Yizhou.

Li Xiuning realized that she didn't know her in the Western Regions now.

When I entered Yizhou City, there was a long queue at the gate of the city. They are all people who have migrated from the interior in the wind and snow.

A servant said in a loud voice: "Our Anxi is definitely different from your Liangzhou. If you know how to farm, as long as you are willing to put in the effort, there will definitely be unexpected rewards. Now we have a lot of wasteland in Anxi, within five years, as long as you report to the government first, you can apply for an ownerless wasteland for reclamation, your family of three into a family, you can apply for reclamation of 100 acres of land, as long as the first three years are exempt from tax, five years and a half tax, 20 years of cultivation, the land use right here is owned by the individual, can be heirlooms, can also be rented, but it is forbidden to buy and sell. ”

Li Xiuning's heart moved, and he secretly said: "This policy is good, and convection is definitely attractive." ”

However, Xie An immediately thought of the difficulties......

Someone asked, "How can I buy seeds because my homeless people have long been ruined and have no belongings?" Farming tools? And the cows? ”

The official explained: "You are really too worried, our respected Dadu Protector has long thought of this, if you don't have anything, it doesn't matter, you can apply for a loan from the government or Tongli Bank." There is an additional condition that after the grain is harvested, it must be sold to them at a price below the market price. For a discount of one and a half percent below the market price, you can apply for their interest-free loan. Of course, if you don't think it's cost-effective, you can sell it to them at the market price at an interest rate of one cent per annum. ”

When Li Xiuning heard this, he nodded seriously, no matter which way he adopted, in fact, the peasants were very compatible.

Someone asked, "What if you borrow money from the government?"

The official said: "The interest of the government should be higher, with an annual interest rate of two cents, which will be repaid in five years, ten years, and twenty years. ”

"Two cents of interest?" Someone said incredulously: "How can it be so low?" ”

It is no wonder that some people wonder that among the nobles, there are three main types of wealth income, that is, land rent, shops and loans. At this time, the interest rate is very high, even if those are more benevolent, the interest they lend is about three cents per year, that is to say, if they borrow one hundred yuan, they must repay one hundred and thirty yuan after one year, and two years is one hundred and sixty-nine yuan, which is the calculation of rolling interest.

The official said: "Although the interest of our government is slightly higher than that of Datang Tongli Qianzhuang, it can be used to replace loans with work. ”

"Oh?" Someone asked with great interest: "What is a loan-for-work?" ”

The official said: "In the past, every time there was a famine, the people had to borrow money to survive for emergencies, and afterwards due to the high interest, they had no ability to repay, and countless families were ruined. His Majesty was well aware of this, and ordered the local government to follow the regulations in crediting credits. We all stipulate that the credit of the task shall not exceed two cents per year, and the offender shall be credited to the property of the party. The lender can refuse to repay. If the people did not have the ability to repay their debts, they could participate in the government and use their money to pay off their debts when they repaired the canals, roads, and cities every year. ”

"So, don't you people of Anxi have to serve as servants?"

The official said: "This is not necessary, the engineering projects in our various parts of the country do not need to be handled directly, but in the form of contracting, contracted out, and handled by various businessmen." Such as building roads, building city walls, penetrating ditches, and so on. The government has no right to requisition civil power except during war. Your Majesty said that during the war, all the people of the Tang Dynasty must unconditionally respond to the call of the imperial court, and those who shirk the blame for some reason will also be punished. ”

Hearing this, Li Xiuning felt a little incredible.

She couldn't help but say loudly: "If you don't recruit people, how can you repair the city wall?" Don't you care how the road is built? ”

The official smiled and explained, "We are all rich in the palace......