Yuan Tiangang narrowed his eyes, looked at Li Hao coldly, and said coldly: "If I can't do it, what can you do?" ”

Li Hao raised his head slightly, and said proudly: "If you can't let Datang recover its strength within three years, I will hold high the banner of righteousness and send troops to beg for it." ”

"Just you? It's just a defeat! Yuan Tiangang's tone was full of disdain.

Li Hao sneered: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, haven't you also been defeated by me several times?" ”

Yuan Tiangang looked displeased when he heard this, his right hand shook, and a sword slipped out of his sleeve and fell into his palm.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he saw this: "What, you want to kill me?" In terms of martial arts, now you, I'm afraid that it may not be my opponent, you don't have to make mistakes, this is so far away from your army, and you can't beat the 38 big cover, if I accidentally kill you, you will be defeated. ”

Yuan Tiangang's face was cloudy, he was hesitating, Li Hao was actually a little panicked, both of them were the top masters in the world, but now they were not sure of each other's martial arts, if they fought, it was really difficult to predict who would win and who would lose.

"Let's go." Yuan Tiangang snorted coldly, "Right now, I'm going to take over Chang'an, I don't have time to entangle with you, it won't take three years, I'll go and kill you!" ”

"You're doing it yourself!" Li Hao coldly dropped this sentence, pulled the reins, turned the horse's head and walked back.

When he returned to the team, everyone wanted to ask him what he said to Yuan Tiangang, but it was not convenient to ask, Li Hao said indifferently: "Let's go, go and beg." ”

At the sound of the order, the army set out and headed south.

The fall of Chang'an had a great impact on the morale of the army, and many soldiers of Tiance Mansion and Qinghai Wei rode on horseback and wept silently, and a sad atmosphere enveloped the whole army.

However, when they arrived at the port of Quanzhou, their gloomy atmosphere was swept away, and they saw Li Hao's huge fleet coming to pick them up.

After landing in Liuqiu Harbor and placing the army, Li Hao immediately summoned all the scientific researchers and craftsmen, he handed them the drawings of the mortar, and explained to stay away, let them build mortars, with their current technology, it is really not difficult to build mortars, and the scientific researchers and craftsmen immediately began to get busy.

Li Hao did not plan to build the 38 big cover, because he still has some understanding of the 38 big cover, although the 38 big cover is powerful, but the launch speed is slow, during World War II, as long as one side launches a charge, fight the bayonet, then the other side will inevitably fight the bayonet, this is why, because the launch speed of the 38 big cover is slow, an average of only seven to eight shots a minute, such a slow launch speed, if the enemy launches a charge, it is easy to be close, and after the close is the life to be slaughtered, so one side on the bayonet, then the other side will inevitably be bayonet, But the side that takes the initiative will definitely have to endure three or four more shots as it charges.

And Li Hao's army is all heavy cavalry, no one has a big iron shield, there is definitely no pressure to block bullets, such cavalry can soon rush to the enemy, they are close, the 38 big cover is not as good as the fire stick, so he is not afraid of any 38 big cover, what he is afraid of is the cannon.

He wanted to make a submachine gun or something, but the process was too complicated, and he didn't know what the principle of continuous fire of a submachine gun was, so he had to give up.

Considering that if he crusades against Yuan Tiangang three years later, he will inevitably attack Chang'an City, and the siege is the most difficult battle, since this is the case, then build a large number of artillery, whether it is mortar or artillery, as much as possible, money or something, it doesn't matter, it's not bad money, besides, as a monopolist in Datang's iron and steel industry, the cost of making cannons is not too high.

The troops brought back by Li Hao are 130,000, 50,000 Xuanjia Army, 50,000 Qinghai Guards, and 30,000 Tiance Mansion Guards, fortunately, these three armies are trained according to his training mode, although there are also strong and weak, but the foundation is quite high, now, Li Hao has integrated them all together, it is called the Xuanjia Army, and Fan Lihua conducts systematic training, whether it is naval warfare or land warfare, all must be mastered.

Next, he went to Qiongnan, self-established country, since he wants to establish a country, of course there must be a king, the king is Li Hong, the country name "Southern Tang", Dingyuan Yazhou Thorn Shi Cui Peng as the minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, assisted Li Hong, handle government affairs, at the same time he put Yuan Tiangang usurped the Tang Dynasty in Qiongnan and Liuqiu hype, the people of Qiongnan are angry, have enthusiastically joined the army, Qiongnan now has a population of more than one million, and soon recruited 100,000 troops, Li Hao named this new army "Restoration Army", Li Guocheng is responsible for drills, This guy now has a knack for training soldiers.

It took Li Hao a total of four months to prepare all this, Qiongnan was governed by Li Hong and Cui Peng, and Liuqiu was governed by Li Hao, and Li Hao's power entered a state of steady development.

On the eighth day of the eighth month of August, the group came to Liuqiu Island, Xue Rengui came with his family, looking at Xue Dingshan, who had grown into a young man, Li Hao suddenly felt a little flustered, after all, in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Fan Lihua was Xue Dingshan's wife, but he also knew that he was worrying about the sky, it was just Romance, besides, even if it was history, history had already been changed by himself, what else was he afraid of.

On August 12, Wang Yuantai and Qin Wei also came, these two served in Jiangnan, and their official positions were already very high, but they quietly resigned and came to join Li Hao.

Almost all the relatives and friends came to Li Hao, which is a good thing, and everyone spent a successful Mid-Autumn Festival together in Liuqiu.

In Chang'an City, Yuan Tiangang supported Li Ke's grandson Li Shuang to ascend the throne, Li Shuang is a five-year-old child, can he understand anything, Yuan Tiangang uses iron-fisted means to profess himself to supervise the country, and he does it for him when he responds to state affairs, and he is more authoritarian, he doesn't like to listen to the advice of the ministers, of course he doesn't listen, he is a person in the future, and he has his own plan and blueprint for governing the country in his heart, how can he listen to the corrupt words of these ministers, he only needs these ministers to implement them according to their orders.

Yuan Tiangang forcibly expropriated all the fields in the country and returned them to the state, and then implemented the national policy - public ownership, just like the future world when the country was founded, but whether it is the people or the gate valve family, they are not willing to hand over all the property of the family to the public, why should their property be taken away, this is their property, Yuan Tiangang can only enforce it, and even use the army, the country has carried out a six-month purge, treating the people, Yuan Tiangang is still very tolerant, and the people who resist are arrested and locked up for a period of time. It's okay to intimidate, as for those gate valve families to resist, they will all be raided and arrested, and the end will either be killed, or exiled, within half a year, Datang will no longer see any gate lord clans, those surviving little warriors, there is no resistance, although they can still live well, but there is nothing.

Public ownership was implemented in Datang, the people of Datang were rich, and the conditions at home were quite good, but they had to live a collective life, and the people of Datang were very uncomfortable and had great grievances, but no matter how big the grievances were, they had to hold back.

The Tang Dynasty under the control of Yuan Tiangang was completely chaotic in the first year, because of the forced implementation of this national policy, slowly, everyone began to adapt, and finally settled down, that is, the economic strength of the whole country is much worse than before, obviously there are many more fields than before (the fields of the gate lord clan have been handed over), but the grain output in the fields is not as high as before, and the national grain output is only eighty percent of the past, which makes Yuan Tiangang more depressed.

Next, Yuan Tiangang implemented the national policy - recruitment system.

This is the reform of the military system, the government military system to the recruitment system, the advantage of the military recruitment system is that the imperial court can firmly control the army, command and dispatch is more convenient and fast, but the disadvantage is that a large amount of money is needed to raise troops.

After changing the military system, Yuan Tiangang began to recruit 300,000 soldiers on a large scale, and at the same time built warships and guns on a large scale.

Yuan Tiangang also attaches great importance to education, and implemented the national policy - compulsory education system, he spent a lot of money to build schools across the country, spread science, because he also knows the importance of science, all students, regardless of male or female, go to school for free, teachers' salaries, issued by the state, this is a national policy, this is a huge overhead, so many schools have been built in the country, the total number of teachers in the country is 100,000, even if the salary per person is only 10 per year, then a year is also 1 million, besides, The lowest position of teachers is ten guan, and those with middle and senior positions are paid higher, so in terms of education alone, the state treasury has to draw two million guan every year, you know, in the past, Datang's annual tax revenue was only more than three million guan.

When those gate lords and scholars were exterminated, there were mountains of gold and silver in the treasury, and the household record was 48 million guan, and now, it cost 18 million guan to build guns and warships, and 300,000 new troops, plus the group of barbarian soldiers brought back by Yuan Tiangang, it cost 5 million guan a year to raise soldiers, 13 million guan to build schools, plus 3 million guan to raise teachers and other expenses, there are only 3 million guan left in the treasury.

When the household department reported this financial result to Yuan Tiangang, Yuan Tiangang was stunned, he clearly remembered that when he destroyed those gate lord clans, he got countless money, nearly 50 million yuan, why is it only less than a year, there is only so much left, he asked to check the accounts, a check, and then he himself was frightened by his ability to spend money, and unconsciously, he spent so much money.

However, the conscription system and the compulsory education system have been implemented as a national policy and cannot be changed, and the conscription system and the compulsory education system cost about 7 million yuan a year, but the money in the national treasury is obviously insufficient.

Yuan Tiangang suddenly felt a headache, he regretted it, he shouldn't have had a fever in his head, he was building ships and cannons all of a sudden, and he had recruited so many soldiers at once.

However, now that things have happened, he can only go hard, money must be solved, in this case, there are only two ways, one is to fight, the other is to increase taxes, Yuan Tiangang decided to do both.