Defend the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 69
Han Ping'an's head got bigger, he stared at him and asked, "How much food do you need every month?"

Xu Haoran looked at Han Shimei again, seeing that Han Shimei was still tasting the fine wine as if he hadn't heard, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "Leaving aside the salary, the food alone needs 560 dou per month. In addition, there are still 510 two war horses and [-] Three pack horses, without horse materials, it is absolutely impossible."

"So even if the leaders of all sizes can hand over the food, and counting the [-] buckets of food left over from remote villages, it will only be enough to support you for half a year?"

"According to the long history, as a rule, this food and salary should not be supported by the governor's mansion, but I have just rebuilt the city of Shouzhuo, and the general has a clever woman who can't cook without rice. I'm an official... I really can't do anything about it."

"Where is the food you are eating now?"

"What we are eating now is the surplus food left by the town army when we took over the defense. Because of the more than five thousand fighting grain, the lower officials almost fought with the town army."

Asking him to lead the troops to take over Baisha City was the right person. If he was a coward, he might not even have the five thousand buckets of grain left.

Dad doesn't speak, but his attitude speaks for itself.

That is, the Han family has neither the ability nor the reason to help the court raise soldiers, so it is better to let the five hundred soldiers go back and forth from wherever they come from.

As for Baisha City, it is still a Shouzhuo City, but there are not many Shouzhuo.

Li Chengye thought the same way, sitting in the corner hesitating to speak.

Chen Biao, the brigade commander of the night watch team, was full of confidence. He thought that it was impossible to lose the night watchman's food and salary if he didn't have anyone's salary.

Yu Wangli didn't want to let the five hundred soldiers go, so he couldn't help saying: "Chang Shi, those leaders only pay a quarter of the harvest, which is too little."

"Then how much should they pay?"

"You have to pay half of it anyway."

Xu Haoran raised his head and said, "No!"

Yu Wangli asked, "Why not?"

Xu Haoran said eagerly: "For hundreds of years, people have paid in this way. Besides, when Chang Shi came to take over the family, he didn't say anything. Not only was he willing to pay the grain as before, but he also sent congratulatory gifts one after another. If we collect grain and add taxes, they will definitely It will be reversed."

"They can rebel, but we can also quell chaos!"

"But Anxi is not just a Yele tribe. It is a loss to collect food and taxes. If they are forced to turn against them again, it will not only affect Yele, but even the entire Anxi."

Han Shimei nodded slightly, agreeing with Xu Haoran's analysis.

Yu Wangli realized that he was too aggressive, and lowered his head in embarrassment.

Yele's tribe is so close to Tubo, what is most lacking now is soldiers, Han Pingan weighed it up, and said resolutely: "Xu Shaofu, your food and salary for guarding the city can be temporarily supported by my Metropolitan Governor's Mansion."

"Where does the salary come from?"

"Borrow from the Sogdian merchants, and borrow from Baiyun Temple. There seems to be a temple outside Baisha City. Those monks should have a lot of money and food in their hands, and the fat and water will not flow to outsiders. As long as the interest is suitable, you can borrow from them first."

"Will someone lend it to us?"

"We have so much uncultivated land and so many pastures that are not being grazed, they can be used as mortgages."

"What if it's not up by then?"

"Then give them the fields and pastures. The most urgent thing is how to get past this level."

People nowadays are very simple, and they will never borrow money unless it is absolutely necessary, and they can't sleep at night because they owe people some money.

Han Ping'an was not afraid of owing money, so he thought about it and said, "Why Cao Duman had the confidence to rebel, in the final analysis, it was because he accidentally discovered a copper mine, which was actually an abandoned mine many years ago.

Brother Nine, I will ask those businessmen tomorrow if they are interested. If they want to take over, I can sell the mine to them as long as they offer a starting price. "

An Mishan asked with a bitter face: "Chang Shi, copper is money, is it appropriate to sell it like this?"

"It's too troublesome to dig copper ore out of the well and smelt it into copper. It's too troublesome. It's better to sell it to others for some money and food."

"No trouble, we have so many slaves, we can dig and refine them ourselves!"

"But we are in urgent need of money and food. Besides, I just sold the mine to them, which doesn't mean that I don't collect taxes. No matter how much copper is smelted, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion draws [-] out of [-]. It would be nice to just sit at home and collect money."

"We have so many slaves, if we dig and smelt it ourselves, all the copper we smelt will be ours."

"Those slaves will soon cease to be slaves. What we lack most now are food and people, so the older ones among them have to farm the land, and the younger ones have to go to the state to study. It is impossible to mine copper and smelt."

Han Pingan smiled, and continued: "Young Master Xu, we have a lot of land, tomorrow I will ask those guards if they would like to settle down in my Yele tribe.

If they are willing, each person will be awarded three bursts of Yongye land, and the land tax will be exempted for the first five years, only one-tenth of the harvest will be handed over for the next five years, and [-]% of the harvest will be handed over after ten years.

If there are family members in Guishu, I can borrow the travel expenses for them to take the family over to cultivate.If there is no family in Guishu, I can lend them money to buy a wife. If I don’t know how to farm, I can send someone to teach them. "

His territory came for nothing, so he doesn't feel bad...

Xu Haoran asked dumbfoundedly: "What if there are soldiers who don't want to take root here?"

"Then let them come and go wherever they come from, as long as those in my Yele department must be from my Yele people!"

"The lower officials reckon that they should be willing, but... it's just that Mr. Lin said before he left that the five hundred men will stay in Baisha City for at most two years."

"Envoy Lin is no longer an envoy, Anxi is now my father-in-law's final say."

"Your Majesty understands."

"Ninth brother, Chen Lvshuai, the same goes for your personal guards, night watch team, and Youyi team. This long history only needs people who have their hearts in the Yele department. If the heart is not here, it is better to go back and forth from wherever."

Before An Mishan and Chen Lushuai could speak, Li Chengye couldn't help asking: "Sanlang, where are we?"

Han Pingan said without hesitation: "The same is true, but the crimes committed by Qian Chonghou and others are not over yet. Those over the age of 40 will not be held accountable. Those under the age of 40 will settle down first, marry wives and have children. I will make other arrangements when they are all there." .”

The result was a hundred times better than expected.

Li Chengye is not a person who doesn't know good and bad, he quickly said: "Then sixth uncle thanked them on their behalf."

For the next development plan of the Yele Department, Han Ping'an had already had a package plan and did not want to promote democracy.

Tell Yu Wangli to go to Sogdian merchants to sell copper mines early tomorrow morning, and to go to Sogdian merchants and temples to borrow money and grain by the way.

Ask An Mishan to call all boys and girls from the city to the age of eight to go to school tomorrow morning, no matter whether they are slaves or not.

Let Chen Lushuai lead the night watchmen to clear the horse thieves in the territory.

Let the Yuyi team find a few public houses in the front court to set up a game office, and then arrange for the players to go to those villages outside the city to set up a game office. There is not enough manpower to select those over 100 years old from the more than 40 rebels of Mr. Li.

Before the army came to quell the chaos, the result became more and more chaos, we must first improve the law and order.

As for the five hundred guards who belonged to the "Trade in Yele" in Chang'an, it was inconvenient for the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to intervene, so they simply let the old man and Xu Haoran go back to work.

After everything was properly arranged, Chen Lvshuai and others bowed to leave.

Han Shimei and Li Chengye did not leave in a hurry, and the false Taoist priest also woke up.

"Sanlang, money and food are already tight, and you even have to borrow money. Is it appropriate to run a school and pay back meals at this time?"

"Father, I have a lot of things to do, but now there is no one available. If I don't hurry up and train a few talents, I won't be able to do anything in the future."

"Cultivating talents is not as easy as you said."

"I have a quick solution. Starting tomorrow, please help me manage the overall situation with Uncle Six. I will devote myself to running the school."

Han Pingan knew that his steps were a little too big, worried that his father and father-in-law would not understand, and explained: "Just now you also heard from Yu Wangli that there are not only Han people, Yele people, Sogdian people, Turkic people, Qiang people, Xianbei people and Tiele people, and even people from Tubo and Tianzhu.

There are also many Guishu people, Huihe people, and Ge Luolu people among Shouzhuo Lang. There are only seven or eight languages. If we don’t run schools and unify the language and script, how will we govern next. "

There are seven or eight kinds of nonsense, which is quite a headache to think about.

Han Shimei was about to say that unifying the language and writing cannot be achieved overnight, Han Ping'an continued: "I will start with the baby and teach it for two or three months, and I should see initial results.

It will be winter, and there is nothing to do. We can open some literacy classes, so that these children can be teachers in Shouzhuo Mansion, Night Watch Team, Playing Team and other villages. "

"What literacy class?"

"It is to teach people how to read and count. By the way, let me tell you about the benefits of my Metropolitan Government."

"Everyone has to learn?"

"From where we can manage now, everyone must be able to read and write."

The style of study in Guannei is prosperous, and not everyone can study. In fact, there are still very few scholars.

Han Shimei was shocked.

Li Chengye was dumbfounded.

Han Pingan knew that this seemed exaggerated to them, so he said worriedly: "Father, Uncle Six, if there is chaos in the pass, the emperor will definitely send the frontier army back to quell the chaos. Once the frontier army leaves, we have to rely on ourselves.

At that time, we will be besieged on all sides. If we don't treat the people under our jurisdiction better now, who will help us then?

But there are not many people, they are all slaves who are as numb as walking dead.Treating them well and telling them earnestly may not work, only start with their children. "

How the Western Regions were defended in the past, to put it bluntly, they called a group of Jiji tribes to fight in groups, and anyone who dared to be dishonest would be taught a lesson, and they didn't need to send many soldiers.

But now the power of the Tang Dynasty is not as good as before,

Although there are only more than 100 soldiers in the four towns of Anxi, it is now the time when the largest number of troops has been stationed in more than [-] years.

Although there are more soldiers than before, due to the relationship of the country, it is not as easy to speak as before, and even the territory west of Congling has been lost.

Those Jimi tribes were either rebellious or submissively obedient. Although those like the Yele tribe did not dare to rebel, after so many years of assimilation, they could no longer be called tribes, and most of their warriors could not fight.

On the contrary, the poorer and more barbaric, the better they can fight. For example, Tubo, who could not even smelt iron a few decades ago, can do everything now. The weapons and armor they use are even better than those of the frontier army of the Tang Dynasty. It is said that their warriors all wear locks. Zijia.

If Chang'an transfers the elite frontier troops back to quell the chaos, the situation of Yele's tribe will be even more critical than it is now.

Thinking about the fact that if the elite frontier army were transferred back to the pass to quell the chaos, there would be no one to use the four towns of Anxi, which had few capable officials, and the schoolchildren trained now would be of great use in two or three years.

Han Shimei suddenly realized that what his son wanted might not just be a Yele tribe, but the whole of Anxi!

(End of this chapter)