Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 696
A few days later, Su Chen quickly mobilized his armed force and set up a military camp outside Zaitong City.

However, Su Chen temporarily used the pseudonym "Chen Su" to mix in the rebel army of the descendants of Wu.

Su Chen and Chen Su happen to be the reverse of their names, and they are used as homonyms.

His appearance has also changed slightly, with whiskers, making him appear quite masculine.

Wearing a suit of armor on his body, he immediately looked heroic and stalwart, and he no longer looked like a weak scholar.

Jing Hong and Peng Jingjing, his right-hand men, have been promoted to Marquis of Du Yu, and now they have pulled thousands of troops to start training.

At any time, you must have your own army and trusted guards, so that you can survive in troubled times.

In particular, this rebel army is complex, including the old Heiyundu army from overseas, as well as local surrendered troops, newly recruited new troops, and refugees who fled from the Tang Dynasty. The composition is complicated.

If Su Chen doesn't establish his own team, he may be betrayed or sacrificed again in the future.

Although Su Chen could trust Yang Ling'er, he didn't trust those Hei Yundu Jiubu who had lived on the island for two or three generations. Their thoughts and vision were very low, and their information was blocked for a long time. Many people became like pirates.

After Su Chen observed, he became determined in his heart, and wanted to build a regular army of his own.

In the event of turmoil in the Restoration Army in the future, he is also capable of protecting himself.

Therefore, he named this new army: Shence Army!
In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, there was an army named Shence Army, with about 2000 people, founded by Ge Shuhan. At that time, it was just an ordinary border guard army set up by the Tang Dynasty to prevent Tubo.

For Ge Shuhan's life, it can be said that there are mixed reputations.After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Ge Shuhan was defeated and captured, and was finally killed by the thief An Qingxu.But the first half of Ge Shuhan's life was very exciting.During Tang Xuanzong's reign, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo launched a series of tug-of-wars, and because Ge Shuhan defeated Tubo many times, he was appreciated and promoted to rank.

In July of the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), Ge Shuhan created the Shence Army to be established in Mohuanchuan, more than [-] miles west of Lintao, on the south bank of Taoshui. Cheng Rumiao, the prefect of Taoyang, was proposed to be the first Shence Army envoy. .At the beginning of the establishment of the Shence Army, there were only a few thousand people.

However, after becoming the Forbidden Army of the Tang Dynasty, the Shence Army gradually expanded in size, and even had more than 10 people at its peak.However, the Shence Army that originally dealt with Tubo is relatively strong in terms of overall combat effectiveness, and can be called an elite force.

However, after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Shence Army rushed to aid the mainland and became the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty. The combat effectiveness of the Shence Army gradually declined, and it could only maintain its combat effectiveness by expanding its scale.

Since Tang Dezong Zhenyuan, the Gyeonggi and Guannei areas have maintained a long-term stable situation and eliminated the turbulent situation since the Anshi Rebellion. This is also inseparable from the supervisory role of the Shence Army.

Later, when the Tang Dynasty fell, Zhu Wen defeated Li Maozhen and forced Tang Zhaozong to kill more than 20 people, including the eunuch Han Quanhui, and merged the soldiers of the Shence Left and Right Army into the six armies of Left and Right Habayashi, Longwu, and Shenwu. Just die.

Su Chen wanted to revive the prestige of this magic strategy army, the most important thing is that the name is also nice, it sounds mighty and domineering.

With the recruitment of recruits, the barracks expanded and expanded to the nearby mountains.

Su Chen also took the opportunity to make a plan, and built a weapon foundry on the mountain to make high-quality weapons.

He has seen the weapons of the Rebel Army, which are inferior to those of the Tang Army, not sharp enough, and easy to break. Compared with the weapons and equipment of the Song Army, they are even worse.

In addition, Su Chen also wants to buy a batch of war horses, but there is a shortage of horses in the south, and ordinary domestic pony horses are used for farming and pulling carts. As war horses for charging, they obviously lack explosive power and endurance, so they cannot be made into war horses.

This requires doing business with the Khitan people in the grassland.

"Susu, I need to speed up the production of Qingbai porcelain as soon as possible, as well as liquor, etc., through maritime trade, to cooperate with the Liao Kingdom, in exchange for some war horses, to arm our Shence Army!"

When Bai Susu heard this, she also frowned, dragging her chin with her white hands, and then thought about how to develop business and make money.

"Based on the current situation, it will take a certain amount of time to transport the craftsmen of the Bai family to rebuild the hot pot and kiln. If some local porcelain kilns are expropriated, they will be replaced by our Bai family's celadon, blue and white porcelain, and white porcelain. The firing method can be put into production quickly.”

Hearing this, Su Chen nodded and said: "Well, that's borrowing chickens to lay eggs. For the time being, in order to prepare for military pay and war horses, some kilns can be requisitioned temporarily. I will send troops to guard them and quickly produce a batch of porcelain, and then pass through the sea. To expand business, go to the grasslands to exchange war horses, go to the East to exchange food, salt, cloth, etc., to supplement military supplies."

"I understand that." Bai Susu nodded.

"However, we need our own people to transport this out and resell it, otherwise the money will be easily taken by others when it comes back."

Su Chen said: "I've considered this too. We can't just take the money ourselves, otherwise it will cause dissatisfaction with General Lu and others. We will establish an internal treasury, which is nominally in charge of Yang Ling'er and handed over to me to take care of it. The money we generate Forty percent of profits from porcelain, textiles, and drinks are temporarily taken and put into the internal treasury, which is similar to the treasury organized by the rebel army. It is used for officials' salaries, city construction, and relief for the people. Take [-]%, General Lu will take [-]%, and the rest of the generals will take [-]%.

Bai Susu said speechlessly: "We don't share much!"

Su Chen explained with a smile: "For the time being, I have few soldiers, and I'm just starting out, so I can't occupy a lot of things, otherwise it will be easy to attract people's envy, and [-]% is okay. When our team grows rapidly, especially when we can separate one side, I will still There are more gadgets and small ideas that are used for business, and we can get the bulk of the profits at that time.”

"Besides, the amount of profit does not depend on how you make accounts. In terms of cost and profit, you can also use a little trick to leave us some oil and water."

Su Chen smiled slightly, and understood the methods of these businessmen.

Flow income does not mean profit. After all, costs have to be deducted. These costs include raw materials, wages, damage, risk of loss at sea, etc. The final profit can be controlled and adjusted through accounting.

The available gray space will also be an additional income.

"What about ships?"

"I have seen General Lu's ship, but the size is still not big enough. I plan to discuss with Ling'er to set up a city shipping department to be responsible for building new ships. We have already taken over the overseas trading department. We will also take over this department for the time being. , as for the sailors, we can second a few of them, and then recruit new ones. Quanzhou is a very good port area. There are many people here who know how to water and go fishing. , I can also explain to them the basic knowledge of the ocean..." Su Chen said with a smile.

Although he is not a navigator, his understanding of the earth and the world should be clearer than anyone in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

The earth is round, as well as the common sense of the monsoons of the four oceans, the application of the compass, etc. No one in this era knows better than Su Chen.

(End of this chapter)