Defend the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 99
Han Shimei is also reluctant to part with his son, but he owes too much to his wife and children in his hometown. The only thing he can do is to make up for it as much as possible.

He was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "You have all grown up, married and established businesses, and you don't have to worry about the invasion of the Mazha Department anymore. Dad has nothing to worry about."

"Father, when Grandpa Shijun and the Great General asked you to be the guardian envoy, didn't you think that Maza Tata would be ready to move?"

"If the Mazha Department is not eliminated, Yele Town will not be safe for a day. For this day, your father-in-law has been plotting for five years. Otherwise, with his temper, he would allow the little leaders of the Yele Department to secretly collude with the Mazha Department." , can you back down again and again?"

"The restoration of Baisha Shouzhu City is also to stimulate Mazata Tower?"

"almost."

"Then what am I, the chief governor of Yele's governor's office?"

"Your Grandpa Shijun never thought of using you, nor did your father-in-law. It can be said that all this is just going along with the flow."

At that time, I was nothing, and I really had no value to be used by others.

Now that I have everything, it’s no fun to worry about those things.

Han Pingan asked with a smile: "Father, you are gone, who will be the guard?"

Han Shimei said lightly: "The restoration of Baisha Shouzhuo City is only a stopgap measure. Now there is no need to worry about the Mazha Department. Baisha Shouzhuo City will naturally be abandoned as before."

"Abandon?"

"How can you defend without soldiers?"

"Where are the guards?"

"Some died in battle, and some were unwilling to settle down in the Yele tribe and defected to General Wang."

"clear."

Han Shimei was still not at ease after thinking about it, and smiled and said: "General Wang is actually not difficult to deal with. After I leave, you have to walk around with him more. If you have something good to do, think about him more. If you meet him in the future Whatever it is, he will help you."

Wang Qingxiang likes money!
Han Ping'an couldn't help laughing: "Father, don't worry, I've thought about it a long time ago."

Han Shimei asked curiously: "What are you thinking about?"

"Know why I don't grow winter wheat, but spring wheat?"

"Why."

"I just want our Yele tribe to complement Juncheng and Tuncheng. We have fields, and they also have a lot of fields. What we lack are people who cultivate them!"

Han Pingan paused, and then said: "Stagger the time of planting and autumn harvest, and I can call people to help them. He can also call people to help me, but mainly he calls people to help me, because I cultivate There are more fields than him."

Han Shimei subconsciously asked: "In the future, we won't recruit people to do part-time jobs, just talk to him alone, and ask him to help call them?"

"Well, anyway, those old soldiers and their family members are also idle. In the past year, my son has been doing part-time labor for two or three months. I can earn some money to subsidize the family. I can not only harvest more food, but also help him stabilize the morale of the army. , kill two birds with one stone."

"It's right to think so. Maza Tata is hanging out alone, so why not us? Since we are hanging out like General Wang, we have to help each other."

"Yele City is mine, of course I want to help him."

"In that case, you should also help your father-in-law. This group of schoolchildren are good, and they can play a leading role in time. If you teach for a while, after the autumn harvest next year, you can send a batch to Guishu."

At noon yesterday, Wang Qingxiang saw that the schoolchildren managed the huge camp in an orderly manner, so he asked how long it would take for the children from Juncheng Tuncheng to complete their studies. He planned to entrust them with important tasks after they finished their studies. Arrange to do clerical work in the army.

Cui Han was also interested in those school children, and even the leaders of the Jimi tribe, such as Anu Shi and Yuan Jingang, wanted to poach some of them away.

Thinking of this, Han Ping'an couldn't help laughing: "Yu'er's father wants fifty, and I plan to give him one hundred. But before that, I will teach for another half a year, and I even plan to take them on a study tour for a while."

Han Shimei asked with a smile, "Study tour?"

Han Ping'an explained: "Don't go far, first go around Anxi, at most go to Beiting, let them see the world, and by the way, invite Yu'er's father, the long history of the envoy, Sima, and the town envoys of the towns, to join the army. Give them lectures."

"What will the general say?"

"When we talk about marching and fighting, it doesn't really matter what we talk about. The important thing is to let the generals and civil officials who have the final say meet my students from Yele House."

"You want to help those schoolchildren find officials?"

"You don't have to be an official, just be an official. They are still young and need experience."

"Sanlang, you are planning to fill Anxi with peaches and plums!"

"If Beiting needs talents, I can send a thousand to them."

What the Western Region lacks most is talents. If you can imagine him taking smart schoolchildren around, those town generals who are in desperate need of talents will definitely ask to keep some of them.

Han Shimei didn't expect her son to play like this, so she asked in a low voice, "Sanlang, what do you want to do?"

"Father, you should ask me what I'm worried about."

"What are you afraid of."

"Anle Mountain's holy family is too long. I don't know how many people in the court are jealous. In addition, the arrogant soldiers under him and the Sogdian businessmen who support him are bewitched. He will rebel if he doesn't. Sooner or later he will rebel."

Han Pingan took a deep breath, and continued: "If he rebels, the emperor will definitely dispatch troops from Longyou, Hexi, Beiting, and Anxi to quell the chaos. Once Longyou and Hexi are empty, Tubo, which has already eaten away at Tuguhun, will definitely not This opportunity will be missed."

Han Shimei said solemnly: "Once there is a loss in Longyou and Hexi, we will be hanging out like Mazhata Tower!"

"After all, we are still human beings. If we could move 30 to [-] people from the pass a few years ago, we wouldn't need to worry about Tubo, Dashi, and Huihe, but we haven't moved many people to the Western Regions for so many years, so we have to do the most Bad plan."

"It's so far away, how much food and grass will it take to move 30 to [-] people here? Besides, it's hard to move the homeland, as long as there is a way to survive, who would want to leave their hometown."

"It's unrealistic to recruit people from the pass, but if Tubo really takes advantage of the war in the pass to invade Longyou and Hexi one day, we can use Beiting as a fulcrum to find ways to save more people in Longyou and Hexi."

"Beiting is not Anxi, we say nothing."

"We are saving people, at worst we will bring them back for resettlement."

"The land is enough, but how much food is needed?"

"So in the next three to five years, I will work hard to open up wasteland and grow food."

There are no eggs under the covering nest.

What the son said is not only a state matter, but also a family matter.

Han Shimei didn't think his son was worrying unnecessarily, he was silent for a moment, and asked, "How many people can Yele support?"

"With a false Daoist, it should be no problem to support 10 people."

Han Pingan smiled, and said with confidence: "But it is not easy to transport more grain. I plan to take the opportunity of studying abroad to visit various towns and see if I can rent some fields and call people to open up wasteland. As long as the land rent is suitable, I will definitely Someone is willing to rent it to me to cultivate."

What the son said was a big deal, and what he had to do was an even bigger deal.

Could it be that with the blood of the Li family, as long as they are born, they can do great things?

Han Shimei couldn't help thinking of his mother, and murmured: "In this case, father should go to Guishu."

Dad was planning to go to Guishu to help him. Han Pingan secretly sighed and said, "Father, if Dalang Erlang wants to become an official and has no way out, you might as well ask them to help me."

"The Yele department is yours, and you gave it to you for the sake of your mother, Grandpa Jun and your father-in-law."

"The Yele department is not only mine, but also our Han family's."

Thinking that his son is not only staring at Anxi, but even planning to take the schoolchildren on a study trip to Beiting, Han Shimei realized that Yelebu is too young for his son, and nodded slightly: "Okay, when they arrive, Dad will ask them."

Han Pingan glanced at Yinniang who was hesitant to speak, and said with a smile: "Father, I heard Uncle Cui said that Guishu's life is not safe, otherwise the general would not let him, a civil servant, lead the army to help, and let my sister and brother-in-law go with me." You go back together."

Han Shimei really wanted to take her adopted daughter and son-in-law away, but she shook her head after thinking about it: "Yinniang, you and Qu Tong should stay in Yele."

"father……"

"Father is going to be a judge in the envoy's mansion, not to lead the army to fight, so father will be fine." Han Shimei smiled slightly, and then changed the subject: "Sanlang, father intends to take Yu Wangli away."

"Row."

"As for Xu Haoran, Dad asked him before he came, and he is willing to stay in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion."

"Uncle Six is ​​guarding Yannan, and he can succeed Uncle Six as Sima of my Metropolitan Government."

"It's the most appropriate arrangement."

Dad is really leaving this time, and he will depend on himself from now on.

Han Ping'an felt that he had grown up suddenly. When he camped and rested, he drank wine with Qu Tong around the campfire.

Yinniang was helping to cook the porridge, and asked in a low voice: "Madam and Dalang Erlang have arrived in Guishu, should we go and have a look?"

Han Pingan sighed softly: "Of course, so we must quickly arrange the affairs of the Yele department."

Qu Tong raised his head and asked, "What do I do?"

"You lead the army. Our Yele tribe can't live without our own soldiers. After we go back, we will choose a thousand young men and practice hard."

"My adoptive father intends to make me the brigade commander of the Night Watch."

"Brother-in-law, it's not like you haven't seen how brutal the battle at Kela Mountain Pass was. You didn't rely on a few night watchmen to fight the battle. In the future, you will lead the army wholeheartedly. I plan to send [-] soldiers to garrison 'Dao City' and [-] soldiers to stay behind." In Baisha City, a hundred soldiers are stationed at Salt Lake."

"Where's the Night Watch?"

"The night watchmen are still led by your adoptive father, let him recruit a few more, and see if he can train a hundred night watchmen."

"What about those guards and Sogdian personal guards?"

"All of them will be incorporated into the Playhouse Department, and those who want to be dismissed and returned to the fields will be sent back to the fields. In the future, all villages will set up playhouses, and as long as they have time, they will call the young and strong in each village to practice."

"Practice slaves like Tubo?" Qu Tong asked curiously.

There is a lot of land, but I have been thinking about how to cultivate it for many days.

The Western Region has a vast land and few people, and the division of fields to households is not conducive to large-scale farming, and must be farmed.

Han Pingan weighed it up and said with a smile: "My Yele tribe will no longer have slaves in the future, let alone slaves. Next, we will allocate land to them, and each household will be allocated a few acres of private land, and grow some rations and vegetables for ourselves. Melons and fruits. Let them cultivate the public land of the Agriculture and Land Administration while cultivating their private plots.”

Yinniang murmured: "I have land at home, who would seriously cultivate the public land."

Han Pingan explained: "Sister, I didn't let them be white, I would pay them wages, just like helping us to do part-time jobs. Besides, I didn't let them get rid of slavery just like that, but lent them money to redeem themselves. I will also lend them money to build houses. They have to work, and if they don’t work, how can they pay off their debts.”

Yinniang thought about it and asked again: "Then what should I do?"

Han Ping'an raised his head and said, "You have a baby, you don't have to fight anymore, I'm still waiting to be an uncle."

Yinniang rolled her eyes at him and continued cooking porridge.

Qu Tong grinned widely, giggling silly.

(End of this chapter)