Chapter Eighty-Four: Draining People's Strength
Throat! Throat! Woo ......
War horses snorted, and knights on horseback were supervising the construction site not far away. The Sogdian caravans, on the other hand, encamped the horses from afar, erected makeshift fences, and in addition to the Persian dancers, the newly arrived white slaves displayed their bodies almost completely naked.
Rao is military discipline is strict, and the soldiers of the southern army are also dry for a while. Just took Side, a street fight is more exhausting than a frontal fight, be careful, be careful, be careful, but even so, the heroic people who were killed in the police station are not one or two.
Cheng Chubi has not yet let the soldiers get mental and physical release, and the tight string has always been tight.
"Sima, a new official document has come from Dunhuang."
"Read."
The guards immediately read out the official document, and the soldiers on the left and right were a little surprised when they heard the new order from Dunhuang. Then they all looked at Cheng Chubi, but they couldn't see anything, Cheng Chubi was as cold as ever.
"Is there any news from Wuhan?"
Cheng Chubi asked again.
"China Resources will bring a batch of grain, in addition to canned food, there is also a batch of rock sugar."
"Where's whale oil and wood?"
"It won't be until the end of summer, and most of the first ones to come are equipment, as well as briquettes and briquettes."
"Didn't Shule say that there was coal?"
"There are too few people who are proficient in this way, and the China Resources has to transfer people from the Hetao. Sima also knows that such talents are needed everywhere now. It's just a matter of sorting out the coal yard, and it can't be done unless it's a county order. β
Cheng Chubi knew about these ten years ago, but he was just a little anxious and wanted to digest Shule as soon as possible. Even if you know that you are sparse, it is impossible to do it without more than 20 years of hard work.
The war did not make him feel tired and afraid, and it was precisely because of the heroic fighting that when he recalled the past, he always felt that he was stupid, and that his brother was thinking very broadly.
"After the city was built and the village was built, our army attacked the old land of Gumo again."
"Sima, where is Guo Gong ......?"
"Guo Xiaoke is here to accumulate credit, where is there no merit for his leadership to plan?"
"You always have to let me know, right? What's more, the Xizhou Army also wants to take the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and seize the front of our army. β
"Don't pay attention to it, there is a way in Xizhou."
Xizhou and Yizhou are all old subordinates left by Hou Junji, and Hou Junji wants to take his old subordinates and old guys to fish together, and in the next ten or twenty years, he will have to rely on Cheng Chubi, how can he not frown with Cheng Chubi in this situation.
Furthermore, whether it is Yanqi or Qiuzi, they are either being eaten or being eaten, although it matters who is eaten, but in order to eat the guy who lost the meal, what is this not stupid?
"Well, it doesn't really matter. In just over a month of preparation, Tulun moraine will return to China, just around the corner. β
"The imperial court now encourages industry and commerce in the Western Regions, and there are Chinese Han scholars who come to take risks, presumably to operate the Western Regions. As Yi'er and others saw, what will the imperial court do with these people of the new land? β
Cheng Chubi asked.
"When I heard that Li Liangzhou governed Liangzhou, he used Xianbei, Dangxiang, and Qiang people to build terraces, build roads and open mountains, and consume its people's power. Buying off newly cultivated fields and pastures is a situation in which the 'party and righteousness' disintegrate without a response from the rear. β
"Or Tuntian?"
"After all, we want to tuntian, and our army has to reclaim tens of thousands of acres in Dunhuang, Jimo, and Putaocheng. If the law of the imperial court is expressly ordered, the folk tuntian is profitable. Sima also knows, and now the capital is ...... In Chang'an, the price of rice is as cheap as mud. But the price of this rice is not cheap in Dunhuang, and it is another price when it comes to the end of the city. β
"That's because the merchants want to change the 'salt industry production capital', which is different."
"As long as it is profitable, it makes no difference to a businessman. The reduction and exemption of tax rebates in the Western Regions is only calculated on the basis of millet seeds, and one mu of land is counted as one stone, and after the tax exemption, it is also worth two stones per mu in Guanzhong. Moreover, the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, widely planted and harvested, and there are eight oxen ploughs and Quyuan ploughs, and no matter how much they are in arrears, life is ten times better than that of Longyou. It's just that it is a little more difficult to get the head of the capital. β
"In fact, there is silk, Jia told a certain person, the Western Regions can also raise silkworms and mulberry. And then there are all kinds of miscellaneous grains, and the life of ordinary people will be better than that of Longyou. It's just that the Turks are stupid and dull, and the nobles of the Western Regions are cruel and even miserable. β
did not put on a compassionate posture, picked up and drank human blood and ate human flesh, when Cheng Chubi was doing a rice milling workshop in Chang'an, he still did not treat slaves and maids as human beings.
Needless to say, he did such a fight.
But because of this, he admired and even revered Zhang De more and more.
"I have a friend, who is 'Liangzhou Rulinlang', and now he is also in Luoyang. He has a word of self-encouragement, and now that I think about it, it really has some meaning. β
"What Sima said, but Li Liangzhou's son?"
"Exactly."
"I have long heard that the 'Zhongyi Society' in Chang'an was full of talents in the old days, but I never thought that 'Liangzhou Rulinlang' was also Sima Youpeng. It's really enviable. β
"When a certain person returned from the south of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, he said 'for heaven and earth', and he secretly made fun of it at the time, but now that I think about it, I am still a little naΓ―ve."
When he said this, everyone only thought that he was talking about Li Fengjie, but they didn't know that Cheng Chubi had more and more respect for Zhang De in his heart.
The general of the southern army was riding a horse to inspect, and in a Buddhist temple near the mountain in front, the monks opened the door of the courtyard and honestly waited for the order of the Tang army.
Seeing the Buddha Temple, Cheng Chubi suddenly smiled and said: "I heard that 'Bodhisattva heart, Vajra means', isn't it a contradiction?" β
"There is some truth in it, but we are waiting to fight the Han, how can there be any bodhisattva heart."
"Well, I can't say that, but when I change my guard, I will go to the Sogdians to show my bodhisattva heart. When I saw those white-skinned girls, it made me feel pity for a while, and I really wanted to take care of it, isn't it the heart of the Bodhisattva? β
"Are you, the Bodhisattva, going to give a son to that Persian Ji? is really kind-hearted, seeing that she is pitiful, and giving someone to accompany her, Lao Tzu is also a little moved when he sees your style. β
"Hahaha......"
Everyone laughed, and Cheng Chubi also grinned: "In another ten years, Lao Tzu will give you a holiday!" β
"Thank you, Sima!"
Shule is established, and it can be regarded as a little more relaxed, and around Tulun Moraine, only Qiuzi and Yanqi are still making trouble.
However, these are all flea-like things, not worth mentioning, but how to consume the people's power of the remnants of the Western Regions is a really important matter.
For this matter, not only the people from the Honglu Temple, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the capital are pondering, but the team left behind in Chang'an is also planning means everywhere.
When Zhang Gongjin went to visit his father-in-law, Li Yuan, as an old emperor, asked him directly: "I heard that your nephew is very capable in Hetao, and I have also heard that Hetao has a similar Western Regions, why don't you ask the people in Hetao?" β