Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 617 Who Still Plays Old Routine?
Bianjing.

Luo Youdu is listening to Song Qi's report.

Song Qi was ordered to go to Youzhou a year ago to supervise the construction of a warehouse city near Youzhou City to store food and weapons.At the same time, prepare for the expansion of Youzhou.

As the name suggests, Cangcheng is a city used to store food.

The three armies have not moved, and the food and grass will go first.

The emphasis on food and grass can be imagined. As an important city in the north, Youzhou is located at the core of the entire Yanshan Great Wall defense line. Regardless of whether the Northern Expedition or not, it is necessary to reserve sufficient strategic materials here.

Such a large project is the easiest to breed corruption.

Youzhou is also far away from Bianjing, beyond the reach of the whip, Luo Youdu is worried that he will hand over the full power to local officials.

What's more, Youzhou has been occupied by Khitan for many years, most of the youngsters have received Khitan's education and growth, and there are inevitably some scum, let alone some Khitans who settled in Youyan.

For the sake of long-term consideration, Luo Youdu treated them equally, but in recent years, they have been caught secretly communicating with Khitan.

As long as they are caught, they will naturally be severely punished.

But even if this thing kills the Khitan people, there will still be two or five young people.

Luo Youdu didn't make a fuss about it, and never cleaned up the general situation, which made people panic.

After all, playing spy wars and Khitan's tricks are far worse than those in the Central Plains.

What's more, Luo Youdu, who has been influenced by the spy war dramas of later generations and has a certain understanding of Huangchengsi, Jinyiwei, East Factory, West Factory, Adept Factory, and Sticky Stick.

The Central Plains' infiltration of Khitan is far more terrifying than Khitan, at least in Bianjing, no Khitan's voice can be heard.

But in Khitan Shangjing, the lantern riddles made by Luo Youdu have become popular during the Chinese New Year.

For this reason, the upper echelons of Khitan had to order to prohibit the promotion of lantern riddles, and ordered the common people and businesses not to hold lantern festivals.

However, under the disclosure of caring people, the Khitan nobles happily played lantern riddles during the gathering.

As the Khitans who were born in barbarians, they looked down on the weak Central Plains, but yearned for life in the Central Plains very much.

What is popular in the Central Plains is easily sought after in Khitan.

This behavior of only allowing state officials to set fires and not allowing people to light lamps has caused a lot of cracks in the originally harmonious ethnic relations in the Northeast.

Comparing the results of the intelligence infiltration of both parties, Luo Youdu is calm and calm.

However, expanding Youzhou and building Cangcheng is a long-term plan, and Luo Youdu didn't want any surprises, so he specially arranged a working group from Bianjing to Youzhou to take full charge of this matter.

Song Qi was the leader. He was originally from Youzhou, and he was very familiar with Youzhou, so it was convenient for him to start work.

It took one year to complete the construction of Cangcheng.

"Your Majesty! Cangcheng is built in two floors, with warehouses on the upper floor and cellars on the lower floor. There are a total of [-] warehouses and cellars. Each warehouse is separated from the warehouses by thick soil to prevent a fire in one warehouse from affecting the whole warehouse. Xinmi Put it into the cellar, put the old rice into the warehouse, and the cycle goes on and on.”

Luo Youdu looked at the blueprint of Cangcheng handed over by Song Qi, his eyes were full of approval, and he said, "Okay, well done."

He admires the adaptability of the ancients so much.

This brand-new warehouse city uses many of the latest technologies of the imperial court: for example, the old rice originally hidden in the cellar needs to be transported to the outer warehouse by manpower, and then the new rice can be stored in the cellar.

This is not an easy job. Take the cellars in Cangcheng, Youzhou, for example, each cellar can store 100 dan of grain.One load is ten buckets, one bucket is twenty catties, and five thousand loads is fifty thousand buckets, which is one million catties of grain.

Of course, each cellar cannot be completely filled, but even if it is reduced by half, there are still 50 catties, and the operation requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

According to Luo Youdu's reminder, the imperial court's research on mechanics has become increasingly sophisticated.

As the emperor, although Luo Youdu couldn't participate in everything, he gave some pointers from time to time and made the finishing touch, which promoted the progress of science and technology.

Youzhou Cangcheng used the technology of moving pulleys.

The technology of pulleys has been used in the Central Plains for many years. There is a name called a pulley, and another form is called a windlass, but they are not flexible enough to operate.

The movable pulley can greatly reduce manpower, and the grain in the cellar can be lifted up and down with the fixed pulley, and the grain can be transported from the cellar to the granary with very little manpower.

This technology has only been researched for more than a year, and it is directly applied to practical examples.

The response has been good.

As the ruler of the imperial court, Luo Youdu had already realized that the war was coming. As soon as the warehouse city was built and the test was correct, it was put into use immediately, and a large amount of grain had been piled up in the cellar.

Luo Youdu asked: "How about Youzhou City?"

Song Qi made a bow and said: "I just want to report this matter to Your Majesty. Youzhou has always been an important town in the north, and the city is strong, so it is not easy to expand. After on-the-spot investigation, I found a way. It is better to expand a new city in the north of the city, which is different from the current Youzhou. It not only preserves the strength of Youzhou City, but also adds a line of defense to Youzhou City."

Luo Youdu's eyes lit up, and he said: "This is a good idea. I have a deep understanding of the strong walls of Youzhou City. Building a new city connected to each other is indeed more practical than expanding outward."

Song Qi hesitated to speak, and then said: "Your Majesty, I understand that the geographical location of Youzhou is extremely important, but the population of Youzhou has not been able to increase, which is extremely unfavorable to the development of Youzhou."

Luo Youdu pointed at Song Qi and said, "President Song has spoken out what is in my heart. So for the sake of long-term planning, I plan to fill the northern regions with the people from the central plains in the south of the Yangtze River, and fill Longyou with the people from the middle of Sichuan."

Youzhou is actually good, although it was the main battlefield of Khitan in the early Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Yelu Abaoji and Yelu Deguang invaded many times, resulting in serious population loss.

But at any rate, under the rule of Khitan, there was peace for more than [-] years.

The most miserable thing is Hedong, where the emperors of the Five Dynasties and Five Dynasties went out of Hedong three times.

Each of them took the soldiers from Hedong to fight the world, and the Northern Han Dynasty confronted the Hou Zhou for many years.After taking over the Northern Han Dynasty, Luo Youdu discovered that their population in the whole country was only more than [-], and the unit of calculation was not the household, but the number of people...

Hedong is also of great strategic significance. At the same time, it is rich in resources and has a developed salt and iron industry.

Luo Youdu called on the people to relocate many times, but few responded.

Luo Youdu could only pin his ideas on beggars, and when he found one, he went to Youzhou and Taiyuan to fortify them, and asked local officials to arrange them to work.

As a result, there were no beggars in Bianjing.

The real beggars were all arranged, and the fake beggars who wanted to eat and wait to die for nothing did not dare to go to the streets at all.

Luo Youdu can understand the people's reluctance to leave their homes. If it is not necessary, who would want to leave their homes?
What's more, the place they are in is the most prosperous place in the world, at the foot of the emperor.

Or Splendid Jiangnan?

But for long-term considerations, immigration is imperative.

Song Qi's complexion changed slightly, and she said, "I'm afraid there will be a lot of resistance to this matter."

Luo Youdu smiled fearlessly: "That's why we need to make a good deal with Prime Minister Song. No matter how difficult the emigration is, we have to implement it. Anyway, at least we have someone on hand, don't we?"

When he said this, he was full of confidence.

Asking himself, Luo Youdu felt that he, the founding emperor, was lucky.

Eat a wave of demographic dividends in this era...

All the founding emperors before him were faced with a serious shortage of population.

Whether it is the Han Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, they were all dynasties born in blood and fire after turmoil, and the people's livelihood was exhausted.

But when Luo Youdu ascended the throne, the population of the Zhou Dynasty after he succeeded was 1000 million. At the same time, the population of the Southern Tang Dynasty was 380 million, the population of the Southern Han Dynasty was 100 million, Wuyue and Bashu were around 300 million, and even Zhangquan and Jingnan had 80 million people. Plus Longyou, Liangzhou, and Yunjiuzhou...

Luo Youdu gathered these populations during the Southern and Northern Wars, and now the total population recorded by the imperial court is more than 800 million...

You must know that in order to stimulate the population, Li Shimin took widows as a knife, and promulgated the "Ling Yousi Encouraging Common People to Marry and Employ Timely Edict" to force widows to remarry and promote population growth. By the 13th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the population was only 1000 to 35 million.

It is also by virtue of such a generous population welfare that many government orders and systems of Luo Youdu have been implemented, and the vitality and economy of the imperial court can also be restored in a short time.

Song Qi was right when she thought about it, at least someone in the court could move now, which is much better than Tang Dynasty when no one was available.

Luo Youdu discussed with Song Qi about the migration of the people.

This was a preparation for Song Qi. This kind of big action related to the world would require a few prime ministers to stand in line first.

After sending Song Qi away, Luo Youdu met with Dou Yi, Zhao Pu and others again. The discussion was all about people's livelihood, and the research was all about national development. There was no sense of storms coming.

Compared with the calmness of Luo Youdu in the Central Plains, Yelu Bishe, who is far away in Shangjing, has a dignified face, as if he is facing an enemy.

Yelv Bishe has held a military meeting with his confidants for three consecutive days.

Just because of their Yuyue Yeluwuzhi said a word: "The old minister estimated that when Goryeo fell, it was the day when the Southern Dynasty thieves sent troops."

It was just this simple sentence that cast a cloud over Khitan Shangjing.

If Yeluxiu and Han Kuangsi are the Khitan's two bibs of civil and military affairs, then Yelu Wuzhi is the Khitan's sea-fixing needle. After the five dynasties of Yelu Abaoji, Yelu Deguang, Yelu Ruan, Yelu Jing, and now Yelu Bishe, the two kingdoms of the Khitan royal family He played a decisive role in the struggle for the throne every time.In history, Yelvjing was so absurd that he was still able to occupy the Khitan Wanli territory, which was closely related to the existence of Yelv Wuzhi, the No. [-] figure.

"The leader of the bandits in the Southern Dynasty was a man who knew how to use soldiers. The veterans have studied him for many years, and the more they studied him, the more frightened he became. It can be seen that he arranged for Song Xiong to be appreciated by Xiao Siwen in advance, thus laying the groundwork for Xiao Siwen's big defeat. He is good at planning first, just like his saying, worrying about the world before worrying about it. He can always plan in advance and think of what others can't think of."

"Our attack on Goryeo must be concealed from him. Why didn't we send troops to intervene? Wouldn't it be good to force me to stay away from each other? The veteran thinks that there are three reasons: [-]. They really need to rest, and [-]. They don't want to let Goryeo take advantage of it. If If he goes out to fight, the main force of our army will be diverted to the west. Goryeo has the heir of Bohai in his hands, and it is very likely that he will take the land of Bohai. Third, it seems that he does not have the intention to kill with a sword. For thousands of years, the Southern Dynasty has never effectively ruled Haidong."

"The ambitions of the Southern Dynasty thief leaders are no less than those of the Qin Emperor and Hanwu. The veterans estimated that the Southern Dynasty moved to take Haidong as its territory. It is impossible for them to sit back and watch us win the hearts of the people after we capture Koryo, and then fight us again. "

"It is more likely that after we capture Goryeo, we will start the war directly. Let us have no time to clean up the rebels who are unwilling to surrender from all sides in Haidong. At that time, the southern thieves who claim to be righteous will come to the west and take these rebels as their own With this, not only can the situation in Koryo be easily stabilized, but also all the land of Haidong can be obtained.”

The analysis of Yelu's house quality came to Yelu Bishe's mind.

This time the analysis is thorough, I have to believe it.

A trace of unwillingness flashed in Yelu Bishe's eyes. He thought he was better than his stupid brother, and he also thought he had reached the limit, but he found that no matter how hard he tried, Nan Chao's strength was getting farther and farther away from him.

Yelu Wuzhi looked at Guo Xi who proposed to continue to consume and said: "We can't continue to consume. Although we don't attack Goryeo, the Central Plains will not go to war. But the Central Plains has been conserving energy, but we have to consume a lot of supplies in the long run. This method is not easy to drink poison to quench thirst and ruin the court's chance of winning."

"The longer the war in Koryo drags on, the greater the impact on morale. If something happens, it will be even more detrimental to us. It is true that the Central Plains does not want to take advantage of Koryo, but if it can easily defeat us, it will not miss the opportunity."

He bowed deeply to Yelu Bishe and said, "Your Majesty, the most urgent task is to prepare for the attack of the Southern Dynasty thieves. According to the estimated route of attack in the past few days, strengthen the fortifications and prepare for the attack."

Yelu Bishe closed his eyes and meditated for a long time.

Thinking about the details of the three-day meeting, according to their analysis: the Northern Expedition of the Central Plains will be divided into at least two routes by water and land, starting from Gubeikou all the way, attacking Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and attacking Liaodong by sea all the way. As for whether they will send partial divisions to attack Goryeo or It is doubtful to harass their food production areas.

But it is inevitable to divide the army into two groups...

Yelu Bishe opened his eyes, and said: "I will pass on my will, order Yelusha, the prime minister of Nanfu, to take charge of the military affairs of Zhongjing, and order Yeluxian, the governor of the Ningjiang army, to lead the military and horse capital of Liaodong, and set up defenses on the coast of Lulong..."

He dispatched troops and generals one by one, and transferred the capable soldiers and wise and brave generals to Zhongjing and Liaodong.

But the real core, Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xiezhen, Yelu must be captured in his hands and used as surprise soldiers.

After three days of deliberation, they finally came to a conclusion.

If you want to defeat the Central Plains, you still have to start with the grain road.

Let the veteran Yelusha and the prudent Yeluxian defend properly, and let the vigorous Yeluxiu and Yelu Xiezhen take charge of the harassment and attack.

As for the direction of Koryo, the Southern Dynasty really entrusted it with the big, and the three-way army could be handed over to the Wa Kingdom, at least in the short term.

The Khitan, which has always been known for its offense, faced the thieves of the Southern Dynasty and thought for three days before finally making a defensive counterattack. This is the routine that the Southern Dynasty is best at.

Everyone in the conference hall felt aggrieved, their hearts were burning, but they had nowhere to vent.

The mobilization of Khitan soldiers and horses could not be hidden from Luo Youdu in Bianjing.

Knowing that the Khitan set up defenses on the banks of the Lulong River in Zhongjing and further strengthened the original defense facilities, they just smiled faintly and did not make any reaction.

These days, who still plays old tricks?
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