For the first time, these slave soldiers saw the gambling fanaticism of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Slowly, some slave soldiers took out a small number of coins to participate in it.

The logistics unit of the Tang Army is a second-line army, and this slave cavalry is not weak, and ten soldiers were quickly sent on both sides, shirtless, in a posture ready to fight.

Liu Mu has no interest in watching the competition, as long as these small problems are solved.

Today's matter, Liu Mu believes that if he expresses an attitude, others will understand how to deal with such problems in the future, not to mention that in the Tang army, the Murwei people, the Khitans, and the Turkic people also have various customs and habits.

Tang embraces the world.

Chang'an, unlike Liu Mu, who was biting a pipe and sipping tea and laughing about the life and death of the enemy, Tang Emperor Li Shimin once again got up from the pile of dossiers and moved his body with a set of punches.

Then, as the emperor, Li Shimin picked up the thermos and added some hot water to his teacup, and after taking a sip of tea, Li Shimin leaned on the bookcase and picked up a report he had just read.

In the eyes of the Romans, the Tang Dynasty was a country where even the roof was covered with gold and everyone wore silk.

But the report in Li Shimin's hand now represents a different meaning.

That is: lack of supplies.

Even, the material is extremely scarce.

Li Shimin stretched out his hand and shook the bell on the table, and after a clerk entered, Li Shimin asked, "Is there a result of the cabinet meeting?" ”

"Back to the words of the saints, not yet. However, a preliminary report was given, which is being sorted out and transcribed by the Department of Internal Secretaries. It will be sent to the study in a quarter of an hour at most. ”

"Tell me what's going on."

"Sage, this preliminary report is first and foremost aimed at four supplies. The demand for bristles is huge, requiring the state capitals to take the lead, and there must be more than 10,000 pig farms. The state capitals can coordinate moderately with each other, and those that are more suitable for raising pigs should be doubled, and those that are not suitable for the dozens of states in the south of the Yangtze River are all water towns, and they help raise pigs in other ways. ”

Pig bristles are an important raw material for making all kinds of brushes, and the demand for brushes used at sea to clean the decks of seagoing ships is already very staggering, not to mention that other industries also need it.

Some people use soft bamboo branches to brush, but because they are too hard, they suddenly hurt people, and they can't clean the deck.

"Sage, according to the original report on the development of the Tianshan Mountains by Liu Juma, cotton fields are under construction, but there are still some rebels in the Western Turks who will cause huge trouble to the white velvet field, and the preliminary opinion is to develop the white velvet field in Hebei......"

"About sugar and salt......

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, the most important material for people's livelihood is food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

At present, the problem of transportation has been solved a lot, and it is faster and more convenient to rely on steam tugboats to go upstream, which is faster than relying on manual pulling.

"Wait, I'm going to listen to the cabinet meeting."

When Li Shimin came to the cabinet office, he did not send anyone to disturb the meeting, and entered a rest room alone through the side door, where he could see and hear the cabinet meeting.

After Li Shimin sat down, the first thing he saw was two old men who should be one hundred and fifty years old together, and he didn't see who they were, because their hats were torn off, and they pulled each other's beards.

The people next to him were also arguing, and they didn't try to persuade the two quarreling old men at all.

After Li Shimin specially called people over to inquire, he learned that the content of the quarrel between the two was very simple, that is, the struggle between the peasant faction and the workshop faction, although they both admitted that agriculture was the foundation and labor was supplementary, but how to subdivide it, and in some special areas, who assisted whom.

There are still people arguing next to it, and they belong to the emerging aristocracy that rises by trade and industry and the old-fashioned agricultural aristocracy.

Then there is the question of whether the military will attack the Western Turkic rebels in an all-out way, or whether it will go all out to sweep away the Indochina Peninsula.

Also, in the exploration of the Emperor Taishang, the Thousand Islands Road was found on more and more fertile and valuable islands. So whether to strengthen the development of the original Luzon Island, or to expand the scope of development.

And also......

Li Shimin was happy to listen to it.

He has long known that different ideas will have different impacts when they think about it, and new ideas and old ideas will also have an impact.

Of course, there are also the interests of various families and all strata.

At least one thing Li Shimin is still satisfied, no matter how noisy the Tang cabinet is, it has never hurt the idea of agriculture in the slightest, without exception, they all think that agriculture is the root, and Datang's awareness of field protection is amazing.

Everyone thinks that even if everything is destroyed, only Datang's agricultural capital is still there, and it can turn over again.

Li Shimin has always been very satisfied with the discussion, and only when there are disputes can progress be made.

At this time, Li Jing entered this lounge and sat next to Li Shi after giving a salute: "Sage, Liu Juma fought a victory in Rome, with 10,000 slave soldiers against 50,000 enemies, a complete victory. The amount of ordnance supplied by King Yan has been increased by a factor of thirteen, and the cabinet has just discussed the demand to increase the production of Fukuoka steel mills, or build a larger steel mill. ”

"Yes, it is feasible, and it is necessary to have a vision." After Li Shimin commented, his attention returned to listening to the cabinet debate.

Li Jing said again: "Sage, Liu Juma thinks that on the northern front, if the Saracen Kingdom is beaten too hard, they may choose to go south into the sea, and then find a new place for development. Liu Juma asked for the transfer of the East China Sea Division to support and block the way to the sea of the Saracen Kingdom, and the ministers agreed. ”

Li Shimin's face sank slightly.

Li Shimin remembered that Liu Mu said that more than 100 years later, due to the Anshi Rebellion, 200,000 Arab and Persian merchants attacked the Guangzhou Mansion, and even the treasury was emptied, and many people in Guangzhou were killed.

Look for business opportunities externally!

Li Shimin smiled coldly:

"The South China Sea Division will support the first battalion, and the North Sea Division will also support the first battalion, and then a battalion of new ships will be drawn from the newly built ships, and the new recruits will all be brought over by the East China Sea Division. Ordered the newly formed Tang Imperial Naval Division to temporarily help the East China Sea Division protect the waters of the East China Sea. ”

"The saint is wise. It's just that so many ships have been transferred over, and the minister is not worried about the defense of the Datang Sea, but only worried that these warships will be useless in the past. ”

Li Jing's worries are not unnecessary.

The old warships have been returned to the coastal capitals or transport ships. At present, there are four battalions of the East China Sea Division, each battalion is 2,200 to 2,500 materials of 12 warships, and each battleship is equipped with a crew of more than 500 people.

According to Li Shimin's request, seven battalions were dispatched, and the number of marines in the boat company was as high as 44,000.

The number of large battleships reached eighty-four.

Such a force is enough to start a war that is not too small, plus the men brought by Yanagi before, and the slave soldiers that Yanagi controls over there.

It is possible for this powerful military to wage a medium-scale war of annihilation in the Mediterranean.

Just to prevent the Arab Saracen Kingdom from going to sea and developing, this force is not too much, is it wasted.