Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 557 "I don't focus on the military"

"Fighting for days, how many gains?"

"I can't look down on four thousand. The casualties of the Bian thief's cavalry are at least eight hundred, and the infantry is no less than four thousand."

"Master doesn't count as a gain?"

"I'm too embarrassed to count. I guess there are two to three thousand. Most of the locals in Heyang are young and strong, and occasionally there are some from Luoyang, Zhengzhou, and Huazhou."

"Bian thieves are really ruthless. Conscripting so many Heyang people to be masters, after this battle is over, will Heyang still be strong?"

"The Bian thieves still have four thousand riders, so they have to be exhausted."

"The casualties of the fan cavalry are not light, so they must have lost six or seven hundred?"

"Hey, there are not as many casualties as our own! Wuwei's two thousand horses first attacked the bandit army's grain team, then fought with Zhang Shensi, and then fought with Pang Shigu. Of the two thousand horses, only one thousand and two were left. The Tiande army also had a thousand horsemen. There's only seven hundred and four left. We've lost a thousand, too."

"Really, our cavalry army may not be much larger than that of the Bian thieves. We have to let the Fan people come out more."

"Speak softly, those leaders can understand official Chinese."

In the Heqing county government office, the generals and academies of the Wuwei Army gathered together in high spirits.

In today's battle, [-] people went out to fight, and the Bian people were defeated and their hearts were chilled.

The last time he killed so happily was in Falanzhou.

"Recruitment envoys are here!" There was a singing voice outside the door, and everyone looked solemn and stood up one after another.

Gao Renhou walked in surrounded by his generals and staff.

Just now Shao Shude took off his cloak on the city tower and gave it to Gao Renhou to show his achievements.

Lao Gao put it on straight away, and now he strode into the hall, all the generals bowed and saluted: "See recruiting envoys."

Gao Renhou sat directly on the head, facing the crowd, and swept around.

The generals of the battalions of the Wuwei Army and the leaders of the Fan tribe are arranged on the left and right.

"Today, the fight was not bad." Gao Renhou smiled and said, "However, the Bian people set up chariots outside and dug a trench. There were several stockades outside General Yang's camp. At this time, there were carts in front of them. Digging trenches is a threat no matter how you look at it. Tonight, I want to select [-] elite soldiers, go out of the city to attack at night after drinking and eating, and make preparations when you return to camp."

"Of order." All the generals responded one after another.

"Don't take it lightly." Gao Renhou said again: "Pang Shigu is not an easy person to attack Shipu and occupy Pengcheng. I heard that he attacked Shifo village and dug three layers of trenches. , Xu Bing frowns day by day, and finally collapses. This battle still has to be fought. Pang Shigu will not retreat, and neither can I. Everyone, prepare for a hard fight."

Gao Renhou was talking to the generals, while Shao Shude was leisurely reading a book in the station.

Ever since he made up his mind not to micromanage, he fell in love with the feeling of lying down and winning.

Gao Renhou has real skills.

When he was in Central Sichuan in the past, the Qiongzhou bandits had tens of thousands of people and sent spies into Gao Renhou's army. After being discovered, Gao Renhou understood the plight of the spy's family being threatened, let him go back, and asked him to defect , Return to the imperial court.

On the second day, the bandit soldiers pretended to surrender and set up an ambush. Gao Renhou sent his generals into the bandit camp.

Attacking Han Xiusheng in Xiazhou, Gao Renhou led his troops to a stalemate, insisted on not fighting, and paralyzed the enemy's heart, but secretly sent strong men to attack at night, raising fire and making noise, and smashed the bandit soldiers.

Attacking Dongchuan Yang Shili, all kinds of ambush, persuasion, and use of time, played like a thief.In the end, Yang Shili's department forced Zheng Junxiong to death, and asked to surrender in Kaesong—uh, Zheng Junxiong is also in the tent today. After Gao Renhou's defeat, he was also defeated by Zhu Mei, fled to Longjian in a hurry, and attached himself to Gao Renhou. killed his relatives.

"More than 1000 people were also lost before and after." Shao Shude said, putting down the "Three Kingdoms" in his hand.

Chen Cheng was working in 996. After hearing this, he put down his pen, glanced at the book in his lord's hand, and said with a smile, "Marshal, the current situation is not quite the same as at the end of the Later Han Dynasty."

"Reading history can be a good lesson, Chen Fushi might as well talk about it in detail." Shao Shude said.

"What do you think, the commander-in-chief, how is the Xuanwu Army better than Cao Wei?"

"It's a long way off."

"In the second year of Chuping (191), Meng De set up an army. According to Dongjun, there were only black mountain bandits Yu Du, Bai Rao, and Sui Gu in the surrounding area. Next year (192), Meng De broke through the yellow scarves with millions of people, and collected 30 of them. This is where Wei Wu's strength begins."

"In the third year of Zhonghe (883), Quanzhong led 500 people out of the town of Xuanwu. There were generals from the Bian Song Dynasty fighting against each other and rebel generals from the Boying Dynasty outside. The surrounding towns were all vassal towns that had been separated for more than a hundred years. , against Qiu Pu, Pang Xun, suppressing Li Guochang and his sons, etc., there is no military service, the soldiers are elite, and Quanzhong is the weakest and least number of soldiers. Next year (884), Qin Zongquan will come to an end."

"Pfft!" Shao Shude couldn't help laughing.

After Cao Cao gained a foothold in Dongjun, he won the Yellow Turban gift package in the second year.Before Zhu Quanzhong had a firm foothold, Qin Zongquan, the ogre king, was ushered in. His people would not and did not want to farm.

Can the Yellow Turban Army with millions of people beat Qin Zongquan's army of the Ogre Demon King?Qin was born as a general in the Zhongwu Army, and the backbone of the Cai thief is basically a professional martial artist.

"In the fourth year of Chuping (193), Yuan Shu and Yu Fuluo were defeated, and Xuzhou was slaughtered."

"In the first year of Guangqi (885), when Qin Zongquan was conquered, the camps on all sides were unified. When the Cai thief invaded Bianzhou, Quanzhong suffered a defeat at the door of his house. However, the Bian army fought desperately, and the Cai thief was unable to attack for a long time, and he wanted to leave. .”

In the three years since he started his army, Cao Cao used a hammer to the east and a stick to the west. He hit one here and another there. He also slaughtered hundreds of thousands of men and women in Xuzhou, which was very fierce.

Zhu Quanzhong fought desperately to avoid being smashed by Qin Zongquan, and because the wheat seedlings outside the city were trampled by bandit soldiers, he jumped in anxiety.

"After only three years of starting, Quanzhong has fallen far behind Meng De." Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Who is Meng De's opponent? A thief. Meng De is a newly recruited soldier, relatively weak, unable to defeat professional warriors, and was almost killed by Xu Rong The whole army was wiped out. After going to the Central Plains, they won consecutive battles, because their opponents were too bad, and they were able to annex states and counties one after another. After Quan Zhong defeated Qin Zongquan, he had to face Zhu Xuan, Zhu Jin, Shi Pu, Luo Hongxin, and Li Keyong For generations, they all ruled the vassals and towns for 120 years. Fighting so far, Fang has annexed Xuanyi, Youguo, Fengguo, Heyang towns and some scattered states. with Dong—”

Speaking of this, Chen Cheng coughed, and his mouth was quick, and he almost said the word Dong Zhongying.

Shao Shude didn't think he was disobedient, but he couldn't stop laughing.

In short, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was the first to open up wasteland.At that time, the armies capable of fighting in the Eastern Han Dynasty were mainly in Luoyang, which was annexed by Dong Zhuo.The troops drawn up by the princes of the Kanto were either inexperienced recruits or county soldiers, which were equivalent to the state and county soldiers and Tutuan villagers of the state dynasty.

At this time, he moved faster than anyone else. Cao Cao did not move slowly. Taking advantage of the weak military forces of the counties, he wantonly annexed and developed rapidly.But Zhu Quanzhong couldn't. He was surrounded by old-fashioned feudal towns with tens of thousands of professional warriors. He was the kind who often fought. The local sense of separatism was also very strong, and outsiders often fought to the end.

"How should Dong Zhuo deal with this half of Cao Cao?" Shao Shude asked.

"According to Luoyang, troops are stationed at Hulao Pass to see the heroes of the Guandong."

"We still have to take down Luoyang." Shao Shude sighed, "But with Bingzhou Lv Buhu watching by his side, what should we do?"

"Bu is brave but not plotting, rigid but easy to break, conquering Gongsun of Youzhou, and his feet are deep in the mud, why should he be afraid?"

"The three Yuans of Hebei, or using Lu Bu as a shield, how should we attack?"

"Three Yuans, one is secretly attached to Cao Cao, the other is behind closed doors, and the other is attacking with Bu. The general only needs to attack Cao Cao and not interfere with the affairs of Hebei and Bingzhou. He will feel at ease. When the general trend is about to come, he will You can launch a large-scale northern expedition to destroy Lu Bu."

"Sun Jian in Huainan, will he meddle in the affairs of Jingzhou?"

"Don't worry, Commander. He and Liu Qi of Ezhou are attacking each other, and they won't be able to make a move in the short term."

"In this case, we need to destroy Cao Cao." Shao Shude said with a smile: "Look, reading history is still useful. Dong Zhongying did not have the support of scholars back then, and did not have the foundation to establish a foothold in Luoyang, so I will give it a try."

"The first step is to win the battle of Heqing, at least not to lose." Chen Cheng reminded.

"This battle won't be over for a while. I'll go back to Hezhong tomorrow. I'll leave the front line to Gao Renhou." As a ruler, Shao Shude certainly wouldn't "I want to focus on the military." Zhu Quanzhong didn't Personally recruited, busy in Bianzhou persuading Nong Sang, of course he would not waste money on the front line, wouldn't that be Li Keyong?
On April 21, Shao Shude returned to Wangwu County.

On the night before leaving, Gao Renhou sent people to attack the Bian army's chariot formation outside the city at night.How should I put it, the thief army was well prepared, but the effect was not very good, and they finally had no choice but to retreat.

The battle of Heqing could not be won in a short period of time. Now it depends on how much casualties the Bian army can endure and how long it is willing to spend.

After reviewing some documents in Jinxianguan, Shao Shude went to Yuan County again.

"Marshal." Shaozhou Inspector Liang Zhixia was summoned urgently and bowed in salute.

"Is everything safe in the mine?" Shao Shude asked.

Zheyaoshan Copper Mine has resumed mining on a small scale.However, the current manpower is still too small, there are only more than [-] miners, all of whom have been captured recently.

There are [-] Tibetan households in Yuanxian County, and [-] county town soldiers have been formed, but they are not rewarded. Strictly speaking, they are Tutuan villagers. They are stationed near the Zheyaoshan Copper Mine to watch these Bian people.

"Smelt the copper and send it to Jiangzhou." Shao Shude ordered.

He recently opened a money supervisor in Jiang County, specializing in minting coins, because Jiang County already has copper mines, and the output is not as good as it used to be, but it is still a lot.

Since the trade fair system prevailed in Guanzhong, Shuofang and other towns, the demand for copper coins and silk in bulk trade has been greatly reduced. Now copper coins are mainly circulated among the people, which is very important for the vitality of the economy.

After all, the Central Plains has been plagued by a lack of currency since ancient times, so that the commodity economy could not develop at all.

"Zheyao Mountain also produces iron, has the Wei family arrived?"

"Back to Commander, he hasn't arrived yet." Liang Zhixia replied.

The Wei family is the Wei Cai family, and the business is quite big now.

For so many years, there are basically two "big enterprises" cultivated in Shuofang Town. One is Wei's blacksmith shop, which has earned a lot of money from military orders from the shogunate, but it lacks a competitor, and is basically satisfied with providing Medium quality product without any sense of crisis.

The other company is Datong Maxing, but this is a monopoly enterprise that undertakes many non-operational tasks, and has no analytical value.

What will Wei's blacksmith shop develop in the future?Shao Shude didn't know, but he felt that he would not achieve too much.

This is the soil of the classical era, without any elements of modern culture, system, and productivity.

Once unified into a complete empire, there will be no opponents, and there will be no motivation to make changes to themselves.

Reform has always been about denying oneself, which is very painful.I used to play very well with the original set, why should I change it?
Even if you are the founding emperor, you can't go against the sky, because the thoughts in people's minds can't be changed. What's more sad is that you can't find a few people who hold the same views as you. Others will think you are hysterical!
However, the improvement of the level of productivity is complementary to the progress of ideology and culture, the change of social values, and the reform of the political system.Shao Shude didn't want to kill himself, he just wanted to use his prestige to provide power protection for some technological progress in his lifetime, and try to seize the decades to improve as much as possible.The most important thing is to be able to promote it, be known and used by more people, so that it will never disappear again.

He can imagine that after his death, most of the system he built will be out of shape or even exist in name only, and will be assimilated by the real society.

But before that, it is also good to cultivate one more good breed, it is also good to have more technological progress in iron smelting, it is also good to promote one more agricultural production model, and it is also good to expand some territory... …

This is his "payment" for his life and death, extravagance and lust in this era.

In terms of agriculture, the three-crop crop rotation system has been promoted in Lingzhou for many years. The seed-to-harvest ratio is stable at more than 1:12. It is also a mixed-management model of various types of agriculture. It is more resistant to disasters and has a great effect on attracting Tibetans to settle down.

Before that, the average harvest per mu in northern farmland was only 1:7.In this matter, he felt that he was worthy of all the Tianshefus in the world.If Heyang is captured in the future, it will be no different from Baidi. He plans to learn from Lingzhou and fully implement the three-crop crop rotation system.Another prominent feature of this mode of agricultural production is the premise of raising livestock, especially horses!

If all farmers in the north adapted to this new mode of agricultural production, the number of livestock in the Central Plains would be unimaginably large, and a considerable part of them would inevitably be horses.As long as the policy of Xuanzong Dynasty is followed, the official post station purchases folk horses, and the folks will always keep a large number of horses. This may profoundly change the historical trend of this country, even if the dynasty he established eventually collapses.

Shao Shude does not have any hope for the government-run horse administration that is full of corruption, and it will inevitably be corrupted.

"Let me handle the matter of the Wei family." Shao Shude shook his head, knowing that the Wei family is powerful, Liang Zhixia may not dare to say anything, and he will come to talk about this matter when he goes back to find Wei.

On April 22, Shao Shude returned to Longchi Palace.

After entering Taoism and ascending to immortality, he hugged Wei Cai's well-known body, played with it, and said, "The sergeant's family has moved to Jinjiang, so your blacksmith shop should also move here."

Wei Cailaimei entangled her limbs on Shao Shude's body, swimming lightly, and hummed in her nose.

Shao Shude's scalp is numb, this bearded girl!Not satisfied yet!

"Yeli's blacksmith's farm tools and weapons are better than yours." Shao Shude stopped playing, not daring to add fuel to the flames.

"His mine is good." Wei Cailaimei hugged her a little tighter and continued to dawdle.

"Back then, you were asked to make Chashan swords with different irons, but there has been no movement. Wei's blacksmith shop, just pass by, and expect the shogunate to buy your swords? If you can't think of a way, the three thousand Mo knives this year, I will Let the Yeli family make it." Shao Shude said.

Wei Cailaimei raised her head suddenly, with a timid expression on her face: "Your Majesty..."

"That's all." Shao Shude also knew that this matter was a bit embarrassing for her, so he changed it and said, "I'm not in a hurry to use the three thousand Mo Dao. I will let you two make it separately, half of the family. But The price has to be lowered, maybe [-]% for a knife. But the quality can’t be bad, I will check it myself. Is there less money to be made? Think about it, your house still uses leather bellows, and you can’t replace them all with wooden bellows. Is it a bellows? Can’t you use a bigger stove? Charcoal is too expensive, so try to find a way to use coal. The knives made of coal are brittle? Figure out a way for yourself.”

Wei Cai came to the United States and also knew that this matter might not only be a matter of making money, but also related to Wei Cai's status.

The Yeli family not only has a large-scale iron smelting workshop, but also has soldiers in their hands, which can fight for the king.But the power of the Weicai family is much smaller, not on the same level. If the family wants to be rich, maybe they really have to please the king in these matters.

"I know, I will send someone back to Tiejinze tomorrow to talk to my family." She said while holding Shao Shude's hand and putting it on her body.

Shao Shude's hair was about to explode.

Han women would never do this—to embarrass their husbands!

　On the first day of work, I guess it is quite busy, 2 chapters combined into 1 chapter, I will try to come back to 1 chapter at night

　　
　
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