Man Tanghong

Chapter 645 Expedition!

Inside the city gate.

Li Jiancheng was wearing a green shirt, and Li Shimin was wearing a gauze dress. They were talking with their hands, but their minds were obviously not on the chessboard, so their hands holding the chess pieces hung in mid-air and did not fall for a long time.

The two people's thoughts seemed to be flying around, so their eyes were a little dull, as if they were staring at something, but they didn't seem to be looking at anything.

Perhaps because of the common worries, the two temporarily let go of their prejudice against each other, as well as their grievances and grievances with each other, and sat together frowning.

"Big Brother, Second Brother..."

Li Yuanji snorted lightly.

The two were awakened, their eyes began to focus, and there was a trace of anxiety and worry on their dull faces.

"Did the Turks come, where did they come from, and how many soldiers and horses came?"

Li Jiancheng was the first to throw down the chess pieces, stood up quickly, walked up to Li Yuanji and asked anxiously.

Li Shimin also stood up. Although he didn't speak, his eyes were fixed on Li Yuanji.

Obviously, he had the same doubts as Li Jiancheng.

Li Yuanji did not hide it, and said frankly: "The Turkic people have indeed come, from Shizhou to Weizeguan, and Xiaoguan. There are more than [-] soldiers and horses on the Shizhou line. There are only [-] soldiers on the front line of the state, and most of the rest are slaves and servants.

Although Xiao Guan did not find the Turkic army, he did find the scouts in front of the tent of the Xieli Golden Wolf. "

Li Jiancheng quickly looked at Li Shimin. In this regard, Li Shimin is a professional. He can analyze more clearly than him, and can see and predict more than him.

So he wanted to hear Li Shimin's analysis.

Li Shimin frowned and said: "When the scouts in front of Jieli Golden Wolf's tent arrived, so did Jieli. With Jieli's temperament, every time he went south, he would lead no less than [-] troops.

Since there are only [-] string-controlling soldiers on the front line of Shizhou, it means that Xieli brought more troops to Xiaoguan.

If Xieli persuaded Tuli to go south with his army, then Xiaoguan would have to face more than 20 Turkic troops. "

Speaking of this, Li Shimin said with an unprecedented solemn expression: "You have made all those arrangements, can you stop the 20 Turkic soldiers and horses? If you can't stop them, we can only make another plan and prepare to move to Luoyang's preparations."

Although being forced to relocate is a very shameful thing, but if the matter develops to that point, it will not care about the shame or shame.

It is better to lose land and save people than to lose all land.

Li Yuanji still didn't hide it, and roughly explained all his arrangements. When it came to leading the remaining soldiers and horses from the Qin King's Command Army Mansion to Xiaoguan to help, Li Shimin hurriedly said without thinking: "Then What are you waiting for, hurry up and set off with food and grass?"

Li Jiancheng nodded and quickly asked: "Is there enough food and grass? If not, find a way to exchange some benefits with those wealthy families.

At this time, you can't be stingy, and you don't have to worry about not getting back the benefits you gave up.

As long as I, Datang, get through this difficult time, I will have plenty of time to deal with them in the future.

Just think of them as the cattle and sheep raised by my Tang Dynasty. Now is the time to feed them. When they are fattened, they can be killed. Then you can harvest more meat. "

Li Yuanji looked at Li Jiancheng in astonishment. He didn't expect that Li Jiancheng, the spokesperson of the aristocratic family, would treat the aristocratic family in this way.

If those aristocratic and powerful families who supported Li Jiancheng heard what Li Jiancheng said, would they be glad or regret it?

Fortunately, Li Jiancheng was defeated, and they don't have to worry about being unloaded and killed.

Regret supporting Li Jiancheng, they are actually breeding tigers.

"What are you doing looking at me like that? You're talking, how is the food collection going?"

Seeing the astonishment on Li Yuanji's face, Li Jiancheng shouted anxiously.

Li Shimin wanted to interject, but he opened his mouth but didn't speak.

Li Yuanji came back to his senses and sighed: "Big Brother, Second Brother, if I knew today, why bother?"

Li Jiancheng was shocked and opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak.

Li Shimin's face was filled with emotion, but he was also speechless.

At this point, if you say they regret it, they must regret it.

But if it happens again, what they should do and what they should not do, they will still do it, even more ruthless, more ruthless, and more vicious than before.

This is royal power.

While making people regret, people have to fight for him.

Seeing that Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin didn't speak, Li Yuanji guessed their thoughts, and knew that although they regretted it, they didn't think what they did was wrong.

Li Yuanji did not bring up this topic again, but said to Li Jiancheng: "You don't have to worry about the problem of food and grass, I have already raised everything."

Li Jiancheng slowly came back to his senses, looked at Li Yuanji in astonishment and said, "How can you raise everything?"

Li Jiancheng knew better than anyone how difficult it was to raise food during the war.

It is precisely because it is so clear that it feels unbelievable.

Li Yuanji said lightly: "Nothing is impossible. I drove Yin Kaishan to bring Xu Shizong and other rebels into Zhaozhou, and cooperated with the troops led by Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin to completely smash Zhaozhou. The Li family of Zhaozhou was also destroyed.

I sold all the family business of the Li family in Zhaozhou to the Hongnong Yang family.

Hongnong Yang gave me [-] million shi of grain in one go. "

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were taken aback.

The first feeling is that it is a loss.

With the richness of the Li family in Zhaozhou, let alone selling one million shi of grain, even tens of millions of shi of grain would not be an exaggeration.

Because the Li family of Zhaozhou has more than [-] hectares of fertile land alone, the vast majority of people in Zhaozhou live by farming for the Li family of Zhaozhou.

The food produced by these fertile fields alone can reach millions of shi every year, and this is not counting other industries of the Li family in Zhaozhou.

Even if the imperial court was in a hurry to use grain during the war and sold it at a discount, it would not be possible to sell it for 100 million shi.

"You fought a battle, and you didn't get anything. Instead, you made the Hongnong Yang family cheaper?"

Li Jiancheng once again felt that his younger brother was a fool, and he was too stupid.

Although Li Shimin felt that his younger brother should not be so cheap to the Hongnong Yang family, he also felt that his younger brother was a fool.

If it was him, he would not do this at all. He would sell part of the property of the Li family in Zhaozhou to raise the food and grass needed for the army during the campaign, and then use the remaining property to attract the Cui family of Qinghe , Boling Cui, Fanyang Lu, Taiyuan Wang, Hongnong Yang and other families came to compete.

He will then mediate in the middle and pull a batch to fight a batch. Not only can he obtain more benefits, but he can also take the opportunity to eradicate several wealthy families.

This is definitely a good opportunity to eradicate the wealthy family, because the Li family in Zhaozhou is very rich and attractive, and with the greedy temperament of the wealthy family, if they don't jump up and take a bite, then Strange.

As long as they dare to bite, he has some ways to deal with them, and some ways to hurt them.

Unfortunately, such a good opportunity was wasted by Li Yuanji.

For the first time, he felt that he was fighting for the position a little too early. Not only did he not make sufficient preparations, but he also missed such a good opportunity to attack the aristocratic family.

"I just gave Hongnong Yang the houses, shops, iron mines and other properties of the Li family in Zhaozhou, but I didn't give them the land and floating wealth of the Li family in Zhaozhou."

Li Yuanji rolled his eyes speechlessly, he is not a fool, how could he do business at a loss.

If he gave Hongnong Yang's property and floating wealth of Li's in Zhaozhou, would Hongnong Yang still be able to make a fool of himself for 100 million shi of grain?
Just those good fields were sold at a low price of barter, and the grain obtained was more than 100 million shi.

Even 100 million stone is just a fraction of it.

As for floating wealth, the iron ore alone is enough to exchange for 100 million stones of grain, not to mention the gold and silver treasures and copper coins.

So, how could he sell everything belonging to the Li family in Zhaozhou to the Hongnong Yang family for 100 million shi of grain? !

He still wants to use that money to continue to develop water transportation and develop the Southwest.

He still wants to use those fertile fields to farm.

Those little fellows of Wang Xuance had already prepared all the manpower he needed for farming, and when Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin took them down and incorporated them into the garrison, the first agricultural reclamation corps in the Tang Dynasty came into being. .

If the weather is favorable next year, the grain they grow will be able to supply part of the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty.

As long as we follow the same example and build two more agricultural reclamation corps, the food needed by all the troops of the Tang Dynasty will come out.

At that time, Datang will no longer have to be stuck for the wealthy family because of the food problem.

At that time, the wealthy families, not to mention taking advantage of the imperial court's war, will make a fortune for the country, and whether the old grain in their hands can be sold at the market price will be a problem.

Only after experiencing the hardships of the wealthy family, do we know the evil of the wealthy family.

There are thousands of years of experience and lessons to learn from in the future. If they are not dealt with, are they allowed to continue to do evil?
"That's still a loss..."

Li Jiancheng said with a painful face that he seemed to have regarded the Li family business in Zhaozhou as the Li family business in Longxi, and felt that selling at a low price was selling his own family's things at a low price, which was a bit of a prodigal.

Although Li Shimin also felt that it was a loss, he felt that it was not as bad as before.

Li Yuanji didn't intend to tell Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin all the calculations and plans in his heart, so he didn't say much in the face of Li Jiancheng's complaints.

"Let's talk about the war. I'm going to take the two of you to Xiaoguan together. I hope you two are prepared."

Li Yuanji spoke slowly.

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin looked at each other and nodded with complicated expressions. They didn't say much, and they didn't take the opportunity to raise any conditions, or said they didn't want to go.

In fact, when Li Yuanji said that he was going to Xiaoguan, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin guessed that Li Yuanji would take them with him, so they had already prepared for this.

After all, being in a different place, when they couldn't bear to kill their brothers, they would bring their brothers to the battlefield when faced with such a situation.

However, if they are really in different places, this kind of scene probably won't happen.

Because they are different from Li Yuanji, they can kill brothers ruthlessly, and they will kill them all.

(End of this chapter)