Chapter 191 The Man Waiting to Pick Peaches

In the Wude Hall of Taiji Palace, in front of the originally empty Coiling Dragon Pillar, a man in black suddenly appeared. Li Yuan was already surprised by this, the man in black was none other than Yu Yanzhang, the guard of the left prison.

Yu Yan knelt down on one knee in front of Li Yuan, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is reinstated!" ”

Li Yuan took the secret report from Yu Yanzhang's hand, unfolded it, and said coldly with a sinking face: "The news is true? The King of Qin had nothing to do with the Hebei Rebellion? ”

Yu Yanzhang lowered his head and said in a firm tone: "Your Majesty, the minister specially transferred the Xuanzi secret agent!" ”

At this moment, the man in black who was dressed in black and wearing a hat slowly entered the main hall with the same strength as Yu Yanzhang.

The man in black bowed to Li Yuan, bowed down and said, "Minister, meet Your Majesty!" ”

Li Yuan looked at the secret agent of Xuanzi and said, "How much do you know about King Qin?" ”

The man in black thought for a moment and said, "Nothing is detailed! ”

Li Yuan groaned and said slowly: "The matter of Hebei ......"

The man in black said: "The minister followed His Royal Highness the King of Qin and arrived in Hedong together, and the affairs of Hebei, the minister and His Royal Highness the King of Qin really didn't know anything.

Li Yuan sighed and sighed: "I also know that Erlang will not have such a scheming......"

The man in black quietly raised his head, glanced at Li Yuan with a complicated expression, and quickly lowered his head. At this moment, we saw the face of the man in black clearly, and it was Hou Junji.

Li Yuan turned to look at Hou Junji and said, "What about the Turkic troops?" ”

Hou Junji thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, according to the investigation of the Hundred Cavalry Division under the command of King Qin, Liu Heimin was defeated and died that year, and his brother Liu Shishan fled to the Turks and was sheltered in the Turkic tent by Jieli Khan. This time Liu Shishan returned from the Turks, with the support of more than 10,000 Turkic elite cavalry, without the help of the Turkic army, Liu Shishan could not have occupied the state so quickly, and swallowed the ...... of Hebei"

Li Yuan thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go back, watch King Qin carefully." ”

Hou Jun saluted and quickly exited the hall.

I'm afraid that at this moment, Li Shimin didn't understand that the general Hou Junji, whom he relied on, was actually Li Yuan's left prison guard Xuanzihao secret agent. In fact, since Li Yuan ascended the throne, after the left prison guards were transferred from the military command organization that originally commanded the Janissaries to our spy organization, Li Yuan placed generals next to the generals everywhere.

Li Yuan learned of the secret report of the guards of the left prison, proving that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, had nothing to do with the Hebei Rebellion, and he couldn't help but think of the scene when Li Jiancheng asked him to go to Hebei for an order.

Li Jiancheng bowed down and said: "Father, I implore my father to abolish the position of prince of his son and appoint His Royal Highness King Qin as the crown prince." Erchen was willing to lead his troops to Hebei. I also ask my father for his permission. ”

Li Yuan put away the thoughts in his heart, turned to look at Yu Yanzhang and said, "The matter of Hebei, since it has nothing to do with the King of Qin, does it have anything to do with the crown prince?" ”

Yu Yanzhang bowed down and said: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the minister's "Tian" secret agent's report, the prince's affairs with Hebei have nothing to do with it, according to the "Earth" secret agent's report, there have been changes in the Western Regions recently! ”

"Chen Ying?" Li Yuan was slightly surprised: "His hand is stretched out so long, he actually went to Hebei?" ”

Yu Yanzhang shook his head and said, "It's not about Hebei, it's about the Western Regions!" ”

As he spoke, Yu Yanzhang handed a thick secret report to Li Yuan.

As he grew older, Li Yuan's eyesight also began to decline, and he could no longer see the fly-headed block on the secret report clearly. He muttered, "What happened in the Western Regions? ”

Yu Yanzhang opened the secret report and read according to the numbers on it: "Minister, the secret spy with the "yellow" number is playing. There is little rain in the Western Regions this year, from June to August in the sixth year of Wude, there has been no rain for two months. Fortunately, in the past two years, Chen Dadu has actively drilled irrigation wells and repaired canals, and the irrigation of farmland has been strongly guaranteed, coupled with sufficient fertilizer, but a bumper harvest has been obtained. This year, the Western Regions have harvested 6.2 million stone of wheat, 1.8 million stone of chestnuts, 800,000 stone of grapes, 37 million stone of melons and fruits, 50,000 stone of sugar beet, 160,000 and 7,600 stone of rapeseed, and 270,000 stone of cotton......

The yellow secret spy was also assimilated by Chen Ying, and his report was written in the format of the Western Regions, and the statistical report was written very simply and clearly, and Yu Yanzhang just read it.

At first, Li Yuan was still in a daze, but he quickly reacted, every time Yu Yanzhang reported a number, Li Yuan would take a breath of cold air, and finally Li Yuan's mouth was crooked.

He thought that the Western Regions were fertile pastures, but he didn't dare to imagine that Chen Ying was actually in the Western Regions, and only the two items of grain and fruits and vegetables exceeded the total output of Guanzhong.

In ancient times, peasants worked very hard, and they often had to harvest three consecutive years before they could save a year's surplus grain, and once they encountered floods, droughts, locust plagues, and hailstorms, and a large reduction in grain production, there would be a famine. However, how many people are there in the Western Regions? I'm afraid that even counting slaves, it is only a little more than 1.5 million people, barely more than one-third of Guanzhong.

Now that he heard that so much grain had been harvested in the distant Western Regions, could he not be happy? It's just that in addition to being happy, there are hidden worries. With so much food, what if Chen Ying establishes himself as king?

Yu Yanzhang was also excited by this string of exaggerated figures, and unconsciously raised his voice a lot: "This year, the grain tax in the Western Regions should be paid as much as 300,000 stones, and the tax is 115,000 yuan......

Li Yuan clutched his chest, and he felt that his heart couldn't stand it anymore.

It's scary!

However, the scare is not over. Yu Yanzhang then read: "The third 500,000 jin blast furnace in Huaergou was put into operation in February of the sixth year of Wude, and at this time, the Western Regions could produce 30 million jin of steel per month......

Hearing this, Li Yuan was like five thunderbolts.

He took over Chen Ying's steel workshop in Qinglin, and has the ability to produce 16 million catties of steel a year, plus 10 million catties in Lingzhou, as well as the steel production capacity of the weapons supervisor and the general workshop, Datang can now produce 30 million catties of steel every year, but with these 30 million catties of steel, in less than ten years, the people of Datang can say goodbye to wooden farm tools.

The output of 30 million catties of steel a month is naturally great news for the common people, but for Li Yuan, it is no less than a catastrophe.

With steel, you can build blades and armor, this is a well-known fact, 30 million catties a month, such a behemoth, with steel can also pile people to death, who has ever fought for this behemoth!? Even if Li Tang Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, Bashu, and Jianghuai are all united, they will only be hanged and beaten!

Li Yuan hurriedly snatched the secret report and took it to his eyes to watch. The data on the report is very good, and through that string of numbers, Li Yuan is easy to know.

In the past two years, no less than 4,000 miles of asphalt roads have been built in the Western Regions, connecting the nineteen states of the Xizhou Road, and this asphalt road network will lead to the various states of the Xizhou Road with Gaochang City as the center. Nowadays, in a four-wheeled carriage, walking on this asphalt road, and riding a horse-drawn carriage, they can reach any state on the West State Highway in five days. It's several times faster than before.

The bone meal factory in Mulan City has been put into operation, producing 100,000 stones of bone meal per month, which is enough to supply crops in 15 counties of Xizhou Road.

In addition, the Anxi Army established the breeding base of the Anxi Army Zhichong Mansion, each of which now has more than 10,000 cattle and horses, tens of thousands of sheep, such a huge scale of animal husbandry, not only to the Anxi Army mules and horses to bring great convenience, but also greatly improve the physique of the Anxi general.

Today's Anxi soldiers don't know the taste of meat for three months, and although it is said that meat cannot be supplied in open quantities, every soldier can get no less than four taels of meat per day. The key is that the various manure provided by the Anxi Army Livestock Farm is enough to meet the fertilizer needs of all parts of the Western Regions, in other words, the people no longer need to worry about the lack of fertilizer.

What stunned Li Yuan the most was Chen Ying, who actually used precious steel to repair Chidao, this Chidao is a big steel consumer, and an average of 240,000 catties per kilometer of Chidao is used, of course, this is only the consumption on the flat ground. However, the Western Regions is not a smooth road, there are countless mountains and valleys here, not only need to dig tunnels, but also need to build bridges, these bridges are also steel-swallowing monsters, especially on the banks of the Huyang River, the bridge spanning 500 steps, actually used 12 million catties of steel.

At this time, Li Yuan didn't know what to say.

The monthly output of 30 million catties of steel certainly made Li Yuan jealous, but Chen Ying used the precious steel to improve farm tools, build bridges and pave roads, which made Li Yuan feel that he was not distressed by selling his field.

Li Yuan didn't know that Chen Ying wanted to show the world the preciousness of the Western Regions. The Chinese people have an almost obsessive attachment to the territory where they can grow food or have valuable resources.

Emperor Er sold the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the Northern Song Dynasty never forgot it, in fact, even in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the national strategic goal of recovering Yanyun has been unwavering.

A desolate Western Regions, naturally no one cares.

But the anointed land, not an inch of land dare not be lost.

Today, the foundation of agriculture in the Western Regions has been established and has begun to take shape, and more than 10 million acres of military and civilian land have been reclaimed. In fact, even one percent of the arable land in the Western Regions has not been utilized.

With the support of the policy, there are as many as 200 new factories with more than 40 employees in the Western Regions this year, and the number of factories in the Western Regions has reached an astonishing more than 500 in the past two years, and it is still showing a strong growth momentum.

The inevitable result of the booming agriculture and industry is the influx of people from the surrounding areas, only in the first half of the year, from Hexi, Qinliang, especially with Liu Shishan's rebellion in Hebei, the whole Hebei has become a war zone, these Hebei people, dragged their families with their mouths, crossed the Taihang Mountain, along the Hetao, all the way to the west.

In Hebei alone, the number of people who applied to join the Xizhou Provincial Household Registration reached a staggering 60,000, and those who came to work were not counted. Today, the population of the Western Regions has reached 1.54 million, a threefold increase from three years ago.

A large population means a huge market, and the prospects for the Western Regions are promising.

Using collective farms and army tuning fields, Chen Ying was busy building infrastructure after getting his first pot of gold. Of course, in order to retain the soldiers and their families who came to work or stationed in the Western Regions from Guanzhong, Chen Ying established 19 state schools in the 19 prefectures of Xizhou Province, and 117 county schools in 117 counties (plus the newly established counties).

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to let their children go to school, Chen Ying also set up a free breakfast system in various state and county schools, and each child is free of one liter of fresh milk, two eggs, steamed buns or meat buns.

Lunch also adopted the standard of three dishes and one soup for General Anzai.

The education expenses are borne by businessmen and even local gentry more than half, firstly, they want to curry favor with Chen Ying, and secondly, they naturally hope that these schools can really provide them with a large number of talents as Chen Ying said, so that their careers will become bigger and bigger.

After all, in this era, the reader is very noble. Even if you can read a few books and can write and calculate, any shopkeeper can earn more than 100 yuan a year. Even a hundred guys can't earn the money of a shopkeeper. However, the shopkeeper of the firm is very difficult to hire, there are not enough talents, and there is no way for their business to expand, so they can't let an illiterate guy act as the shopkeeper, and in this case, any money will be lost.

For Chen Ying's generosity, Li Xiuning is already immune.

Chen Ying was radiant and proud. What a great undertaking to provide education for tens of thousands of people, and he is so proud that he has done it!

Especially the soldiers of the Anxi Army, when they learned of Chen Ying's actions, tears came out.

Who doesn't want their children to get ahead? They have suffered enough from not reading, and now that their children have met nobles, they don't have to be illiterate all their lives like them!

Because an ordinary soldier is illiterate, even if they fight bravely to kill the enemy, after making meritorious contributions, they can at most reach the rank of captain or deputy captain, and no matter how high it is, it is impossible. After all, the army also has too many orders and clauses, and there is no way to become a general if you are blind.

Illiterate generals are not absent in history, such as Wang Ping, the first general of the Wudang Fei Army in the Three Kingdoms period, and the party in the Northern Song Dynasty, but there are very few such people, and they need a very big opportunity to meet a boss who tolerates their illiteracy shortcomings.

Chen Ying drew a grand blueprint for the Western Regions, and operated the Western Regions into the granary of the Tang Dynasty and the heavy industry base of the Tang Dynasty, so that no matter when, the Tang Dynasty court or emperor would never allow the Western Regions to be lost.

Even if the enemy attacks, they will spare no effort to get it back.

Of course, once the status of the Western Regions is important, once the results are produced, there will definitely be people who pick peaches. Chen Yingcha is the least afraid of such a person, he is afraid that the Western Regions will be shelved or forgotten.

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