Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

"Boss, there is a barbarian tribe here!"

A player scouted and marked the map, alerting other companions.

Hu tribe!

Pang Yawei immediately said in the group chat channel: "Wait for me, don't startle the snake!"

After saying this, the green dots on the electronic map began to gather towards the area where the player was located.

After Pang Yawei found the player under a small hill, the player pointed to the hill and said:

"I found a lot of horse dung on the side of the mountain, and I found traces of horseshoes. Sure enough, I found a tribe behind the mountain."

Pang Yawei climbed up the hill carefully, and sure enough, he saw a large number of tents below.

This turned out to be a large tribe, which surprised Pang Yawei.

They also encountered many small tribes along the way, and these small tribes ran away one after another when they saw the makeup of their Tang soldiers.

We must know that the Tang frontier army in Kaiyuan was keen on Kaibian, but they beat these grassland tribes hard.

The area of ​​Modong is caught between Datang and Uyghur to survive.

"It seems that this valley is their settlement, so let's get in touch first."

After the team assembled, Pang Yawei raised the Longyou military flag aloft, and walked slowly towards the tribe.

Yelurong is the patriarch of this tribe.

The Yelu tribe was originally one of the eight tribes of Khitan. This was the alliance of Khitan tribes canonized by Emperor Taizong. They lived in the Songmo Dudu Mansion in western Liaoning for generations.

The Khitan Eight Divisions have always been submissive to the Tang Dynasty, bringing ginseng and mink fur from the white mountains and black waters to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year.

However, after the An Lushan Rebellion, in order to replenish the troops, they often went north from Pinglu Town to Songmo Governor's Mansion to plunder the population, and captured Khitan people to use as cannon fodder for them.

Yelubu was forced to leave his hometown and came to Modong Grassland in the end.

"What, Tang Jun?"

Yelurong trembled all over when he heard the people with the banner of the Tang army appearing near the tribe.

He already had Tang Jun PTSD, every time Tang Jun attacked the Songmo Governor's Mansion, he would plunder them wantonly, and he could meet them when he was far away in Modong?

However, although the tribe of Yelurong has more than 4000 people, most of them are women and children.

Seeing that winter was coming, Yelurong found a valley sheltered from the wind and hoarded pastures around it.

If Tang Jun was really angered, where else would he run away?

"Tang Jun, please come in."

Knowing that there was no way to escape, Yelurong had no choice but to invite Tang Jun in.

Pang Yawei is also observing this tribe. This tribe is different from the small tribes in ragged clothes along the way. This tribe seems to be a large tribe with its own national costumes.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing can be ranked first, and another reason is that clothing is the cornerstone of civilization.

Form the same style of clothes, gradually produce cultural identity, and finally condense into a nation, and even become an independent country.

The same customs, that is, the formation of a unified identity from the clothing.

The costumes of this tribe have been distinguished from other ethnic groups on the grassland, and are completely different from the Uyghurs. It is definitely not just an ethnic group of this size.

Pang Yawei cheered up. There is no way for twenty people like him to conquer this tribe by force. It is better to have friendly contact with this tribe.

When Yelurong saw the group of Tang knights in armor, he knew that they were the elite cavalry of the Tang Army.

He was even more anxious. Could it be that the Tang army from Pinglu Town had all chased him to the Modong Grassland?

The Khitan Eight Divisions have always been submissive to the Tang Dynasty, they don't want to rebel with An Lushan!
But since An Lushan took office as the Jiedushi of the Three Towns, he has been plundering the Hu tribes in the north continuously, and the eight Khitan tribes are also afraid of his power, so the Yelu tribe fled far away in Modong.

Yelurong once studied in Chang'an, and later returned to western Liaoning to inherit the position of patriarch.

He said to Pang Yawei in fluent Chinese:
"Songmo Khitan Babu Yelu has seen the general!"

"Pang Yawei, the strike envoy of Longyou Tianshan County, has met Patriarch Yelu."

Longyou?

Now it was Yelurong's turn to be surprised, of course he knew where Longyou was, why did Longyou's general appear on the Modong Grassland?
But Pang Yawei was even more surprised.

Songmo, Khitan, Yelushi!
These three points are connected, is this the Daliao in the future?

Didn't the Yelu family of the Liao Dynasty originate from the Songmo Duhu Mansion?

Pang Yawei once again felt the surprise of this game. A small tribe he encountered on the road had a reason.

According to history books, the Liao Kingdom rose in the north during the troubled times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, but there is no record of its early development.

It turned out that as early as this time, he came to Modong from Songmo.

The Yelu family also developed insignificantly in Modong and Liaoxi during the middle and late Tang Dynasty, right?

Do you want to call players over to destroy the Yelu tribe?

Pang Yawei had this thought, but when he saw the enthusiastic and obedient Yelvrong, he suppressed it.

The current Khitan Babu is a vassal state that is still loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

Can players kill all the tribes on the grassland now?

In the situation in the late Tang Dynasty, even if there were no Khitans, other nomadic peoples would rise up.

This approach is not going to work.

However, the Yelu clan can grow into a powerful country in the north, and the potential of this tribe is still good.

That being the case, it should be possible to use them to contribute to the big detour strategy.

Pang Yawei learned that the Yelu clan fled from Liaoxi to Modong because they were oppressed by Pinglu Town, so he became more interested in recruiting.

Here, Pang Yawei took out the Longyou liquor he was carrying, and drank with Yelurong.

On the grassland in the northwest of the river, a group of engineering team players are busy.

The leader of this group of players is Zhan Yaguang, who graduated from the Orbital Design Institute.

A few years ago, when the railway was being built in China, Zhan Yaguang traveled all over the country with the engineering team, traveled all over the remote areas, and connected them to the railway.

Over the past few years, the major infrastructure projects have gradually subsided, and Zhan Yaguang is not too young, so he was assigned back to his hometown railway station to get a job in railway maintenance.

The work intensity is not high, Zhan Yaguang is addicted to railway building games such as railway tycoon, and accidentally saw the advertisement of Datang Fengyun.

Open and free world?

Zhan Yaguang had the idea of ​​building a railway in Datang, and was lucky enough to be qualified for the test.

It's just that after Zhan Yaguang entered the game, even when the Salt and Iron Tax Bureau was first established, Jiang Lun proposed to build a railway between Shazhou and Guazhou.

But at that time, steel production was in short supply, and Longyou was short of funds. This plan was aborted due to the opposition of the players.

Later, the plan for the Shagua Railway was aborted, and Qin Chuan took the next best thing, and proposed a plan to build a railway at Danjinshankou.

But then there were many wars in Longyou, and all the steel produced was used to make cannons, and the plan to become the Jinshankou Railway came to an end without a problem.

As an engineering team, Zhan Yaguang moved around in the Hexi area and participated in several subsequent battles.

Now his [Hundred Craftsman] level has also been raised to level [-].

He has a construction team with more than a dozen players as the backbone and hundreds of aboriginals.

But Zhan Yaguang never gave up his dream of building a railway!
This time he found Cui Tao, the prefect of Zhangye, and came up with his own plan.

Cui Tao looked at the plan and asked, "Build a railway between Zhangye and Wuwei?"

Zhan Yaguang nodded and said, "It's not the railway of later generations, but a horse-drawn train on wooden tracks."

"Wood tracks, will that work?"

Zhan Yaguang said firmly: "Of course, the earliest tracks were made of wood. In European mining areas, livestock were used to pull mine carts to transport ore on wooden tracks."

"The distance between Wuwei and Zhangye is only 150 kilometers, and now the materials for the big roundabout strategy have to be transported to Wuwei City. The flat terrain of Zhangye and Jiuquan is most suitable for building wooden rail railways."

Cui Tao still hesitated and said: "Now the governor's office can't afford so much money."

Zhan Yaguang immediately said: "No need to pay the governor's office!"

"Doesn't need to be paid by the governor's mansion?" Cui Tao is obviously much more relaxed now, since he doesn't need to be paid by the governor's mansion, it doesn't matter to try it out.

Zhan Yaguang said: "I have already discussed with the village chiefs along the way to raise manpower and funds from the villages. In the future, the profits of the entire railway will be shared equally by the villages along the way."

Cui Tao did not expect that Zhan Yaguang could persuade so many village chiefs to set up such a large project in such a short period of time.

"Since this is the case, then our governor's office has no position to object, so what do you need us to do?"

Cui Tao was also puzzled, since Zhan Yaguang had already persuaded the district chiefs along the way and solved the problem of funds, why did he go to the governor's office?

Zhan Yaguang said: "I want an order for the transportation of military supplies from Zhangye to Wuwei!"

It turned out to be the case.

Longyou has abolished free corvee, and the common people have to pay.

Zhangye is the logistics base of this roundabout tactic, and it has undertaken heavy transportation tasks.

Cui Tao is also worrying about this matter. If corvee is imposed, the cost of land transportation will be astronomical.

A very important reason why most of the ancient wars were along the great rivers is that the waterway is the lowest-cost transportation channel.

Although there are Zhangye River and Macheng River in the Hexi Corridor, irrigation along the way is not a problem.

This is because these two big rivers run north-south and cannot undertake the transportation task from Zhangye to Wuwei.

Zhan Yaguang was able to take the initiative to take over this matter, and Cui Tao supported his plan even more.

However, Cui Tao still said: "I can entrust you with the task of transporting military supplies. The price can be negotiated, but there is no cash payment."

"What's the point of paying without cash?"

"Isn't the Wangfu Bank going to issue some Modong Development Company bonds in Zhangye? The governor's government will use the bonds to pay your freight."

bond?

Now Zhan Yaguang also hesitated, he thought for a while and said:

"Yes! But Cui Zhizhou is welcome to join our tailoring ceremony."

"Good talk, good talk."

"In order for the common people to accept horse-drawn trains, after the wooden-track railway is opened to traffic, please go to Wuwei City with us, Cui Zhizhou!"

Cui Tao: "?? Your horse-drawn train, can it really not overturn?"

"Probably not."

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