Chapter Twenty-Three: A Simple Truth
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Several young archers of the Fuwei Dart Bureau saw Wang Zuxian and shouted with their fists clenched.
"How's it going over there?"
Although the dusty young man was physically and mentally exhausted, he still replied, "The news has spread, and there should be a receipt in three days." β
"Hou Shangshu was ordered to go west, decided to set up a new city in the Gaochang Oasis, in my opinion, if the city is built, the number of coolies must be a lot. At present, Shay Prefecture is also the assassin of Xizhou, and there are some things that he is inconvenient to do, and he needs to wait for our efforts to show his affection in the snow. β
Wang Zuxian is no longer an ordinary martial artist back then, although he is a one-armed swordsman, he has made a great name in Hedong Hetao.
Last year, Zhang De told him that the imperial court would go west, so he prepared early. Through his fame in the dart game, he soon recruited a large number of swordsmen, archers, and small tribe controls in Mobei, Hebei, and Hedong.
These young people, who were mixed with Han and Hu, quickly became important guards on the Silk Road trade route.
And because he participated in the suppression of Tiele, Wang Zuxian also has a lot of status in Hou Junji, even if he can't talk about Corporal Lixian to take care of Wang Zuxian, but as a dignified military secretary, he still sent someone to tell him that once Gaochang is destroyed, Xizhou will establish a unified military government.
The position of Captain is vacant!
Wang Zuxian, who is middle-aged, is not unable to fight, and he is by no means relying on Li Simo and Zhang De to make a living. 's familiarity with the northwest, coupled with the fighting on the Silk Road in recent years, Hou Junji certainly has to use his talents to forge his own merits.
To each his own, he takes what he needs.
"Uncle, but you want to catch slaves?"
The archer who licked his lips raised his eyebrows and looked deep, he was a Hu man, he was a Yanqi person, and his original name had been thrown away by him. Wang Zuxian rescued him, named him Jinxi, and gave him the surname.
And because he is younger than Wang Qinian, he is considered to be the second line, and the dart game always calls him Erlang.
"What does Jiro think?"
Wang Zuxian looked at him sideways.
"It's the right time!"
Wang Erlang looked excited, "Uncle, at the moment, there is a great chaos in the Western Regions, except for Yanqi, all the way west to Shule, there are displaced people everywhere. To the west of the Jupila moraine, there is a river called Sihun River, which traces the gourd river and the Diao River to the Bodaling, which is the treasure land of the oasis. In the past few years, the Ashina clan has attacked each other, and the strength of the Western Turks has become less and less than before, and Tutun, who changed the city, was even killed last year. β
In fact, he still has some words to say, and now it is not only a group of dragons without a leader, but also a large army pressing the realm. The current Tang Army is not much stronger than the Sui Army. The selection of light and strong war horses, taking Zuo Xiaowei, who was originally in charge of Zhang Gongjin, as an example, 5,000 horses were selected from the 400,000 horses in Monan.
This is Zhang De's strategy, a purely mathematical problem.
Yes, Mongolian horses are not good, but the dwarf is tall, and one in a thousand can't screen out a war horse that can make the Zuo Xiaowei knight charge?
What's more, at present, the ratio of green feed towers, pastures, and concentrates is becoming more and more systematic, and the number of horses in Hebei is doubling in a year.
At the same time, in order to ensure the rate of good horses, Hequ horses, Qinghai Chengjinshan Chasing Wind have established bloodline files, so it can be said that as long as the Tang Dynasty still maintains an external offensive, there is no need to worry about the consumption of cavalry horses.
As Wang Zuxian's "nephew", this son of the Hu people who was abandoned by the Yanqi people and almost died, now has a crazy revenge mentality.
In Wang Zuxian's place, in the dart game, in Hetao, in Hebei, and in Hedong, he feels that he is a person, not a beast, and not a garbage that can be discarded at any time.
The past events made him hateful, angry, and even extremely violent, but at this moment, these negative emotions will be transformed into strength. He wants to make meritorious contributions, he wants to go to Chang'an, he wants to be a Tang person, and he wants to bless his descendants!
"The northwest oasis of Kubiluo moraine originally had 38,000 mouths and more than 300 tribes. Even if the Ashina clan attacks each other, the Western Regions are vast, the fugitives are not counted, and even if the household registration is sharply reduced, the number of people may not be less. β
"Erlang, if you catch slaves, you can't do it on your own. It is also necessary to go to the western expedition camp and get the warrant of Hou Shangshu before he can act. β
"This matter depends on the status of the dart bureau, uncle, and Zhang Gong in Hou Shangshu's heart."
Hearing the reminder of his colleagues in the dart game, Wang Erlang also knew it, but when he said this, in fact, he had one meaning, and it had nothing to do with the dart game and Wang Zuxian, only with Zhang Gong.
And this Zhang Gong is definitely not Zhang Gongjin, but Zhang De.
Outsiders may not know, but the people of Fuwei Dart Bureau know that Hou Wending, the son of Hou Shangshu, is the only one who is the first to look forward.
The one-armed Wang Zuxian thought for a while, nodded and said, "The old man will go to the camp of the Western Expedition, wait for a while, and be on call at any time." β
"Yes!"
The imperial court added Xizhou, which was the work of opening up the territory, but for the civil and military generals of the Zhenguan Dynasty, there were too many achievements in expanding the territory, and it was no longer very attractive.
When conquest becomes a habit, only something else can stimulate them.
Coo-goo-goo......
In the camp of Puchangxi's expedition, Li Simo's people guarded a pigeon loft there. These pigeons were sent from Iwu and they didn't know the way yet, so they needed to be trained for several months.
The news of the establishment of Xizhou and the siege of the Gaochang royal city by a large army was first rushed by fast horses to Yiwu City, the seat of Yizhou. After arriving in Yiwu City, the post station of the imperial court naturally rushed to Guazhou on a fast horse, but the China Resources was very different, and carrier pigeons were used here.
There are 600 carrier pigeons in Yiwutang, China Resources, and send a message out, fifty carrier pigeons at a time. This is to ensure that the news is conveyed that there are many birds of prey in the northwest, and the wind and sand are strong, and it is difficult to keep the carrier pigeons hunted by the birds of prey or even unable to continue flying because of sudden illness.
The message is composed of numbers, with ten sets of codebooks, if the first number is 9, then the next number corresponds to the next number one by one against the 9th codebook. A number represents a word, and the whole message is a complete paragraph, and the amount of information is not low.
When the news arrived in Guazhou, in Jinchang, Guazhou's governing office, there was also China Resources Jinchangtang, where there were also 600 carrier pigeons. Then the message was copied, and fifty carrier pigeons were released, and the destination was Suzhou.
And so on, and finally arrived in Chang'an.
In the entire Datang, there is no one who can compare the speed of message transmission with China Resources.
Jia Fei cultivated and screened these carrier pigeons, relying on the name of poultry breeding. And Zhang De and Jia Fei have tested these carrier pigeons, three generations of shared carrier pigeons, can ensure that the flight distance of an hour is about 240 miles, that is, 120 kilometers per hour.
At such a speed, the fast horse has been left far behind.
Although the success rate of a single carrier pigeon to accurately deliver a message is not high, this problem can be solved by increasing the amount of a single delivery. This is also the reason why China Resources needs 50 for one semicolon to deliver a message.
Generally speaking, only about five to twenty ordinary messages are needed, and only when encountering a major event such as the Western Expedition, will fifty messages be delivered at a time.
These carrier pigeons can only fly on a fixed route, and not too far, plus the manpower and material resources required for training at the same time, can bear this cost, and at the moment only the freak of the "Zhongyi Society".
Without tens of thousands of pigeons, dozens of semicolons, thousands of capable personnel, no suitable breeding and training environment, and no investment that has not been rewarded for several years, there would be no current pigeon transmission system.
Although Li Simo knew that Zhang De was engaged in pigeon transmission of news, and the old mad dog did try to do it himself, but unfortunately even if he knew the training method and breeding technology, he was eventually trapped by a huge investment, at most he set up communication points in Huaiyuan City and Chang'an.
However, the shrewd old mad dog didn't know that the message delivered by Zhang De was in a code book, instead of being stuffed into a bamboo tube and tied to a pigeon's leg like Li Simo.
China Resources Zhang De has always been a meritocracy for those who come, but only in this case, all the people who handle the password are the Jiangshui Zhang family screened by Uncle Tan, and even Zhang Gongjin's Weizhou hometown is useless.
At the time of the demise of Gaochang, Zhang De of Hanyang received news from the northwest after accompanying Bai Jie along the river embankment for a while.
After a while, Zhang De said, "Qilang." β
"Lang Jun."
"Go to Chang'an to spread the news, and say that a super-large coal mine has been discovered in Xizhou, which can be used by the whole people of Chang'an for 500 years!"
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Zhang Songbai's whole body trembled.
"Also, the 'Xingxia' got dozens of pots of golden sand, and cooperated with them to show off their wealth in Chang'an Street. When I returned to Chang'an, I wanted to hear about the gold reward for everyone in Pingkangfang. β
"Yes!"
Although Bai Jie had never asked about Zhang De's affairs, at this moment, Bai Sanniang asked in surprise while caressing her bulging lower abdomen: "The Western Regions are so rich?" β
"You are also literate, do you think that the Han Dynasty went to the Western Regions in order to promote the power of the Han Dynasty? It's not like there's nothing but cattle and sheep. β
Zhang De still held her hand and continued, "In the countries of the Western Regions, if a child swaggers through the market with gold, he will either die in the west or in the east, and it is inevitable that he will destroy his society and eliminate his heirs. Gaochang was originally a Han species, and now he is also dead, all of which are based on this principle. β
The third lady was a little lonely, although she used to be a scheming, thinking about being pregnant with Boss Zhang's species, and then the junior went to the pinnacle of life, but unfortunately she soon knew that Jiangnan Tugou was definitely the worst hard-hearted person in history. He her just to be cool, not because of feelings.
So the third lady feels that she is similar to those small countries in the Western Regions at the moment, and Zhang De is the same as the Tang Dynasty.
"Instead of being humiliated by the Western Turks, it is better to be used by my Tang Dynasty."
Bai Jie said with some emotion, Zhang De on the side thought so, but what he didn't know was that the thoughts in the heart of the third lady were very straightforward: instead of giving others cool, it is better to give Jiangnan Tugou.
Who is not on? In that case, it is better to pick a rich and handsome person, at least physically, psychologically, it is much more enjoyable.
Datang ...... is the rich and handsome in the eyes of the Western Regions, and the white lady is a talented woman.