Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 261 The tacit understanding of the army

Li Tai didn't feel bored with these veterans who fought on the battlefield.

On the contrary, listening to them bursting out all kinds of foul language and talking about their heroic performance on the battlefield, although there are nine layers of bragging, but these bragging are passionate and bold, Li Tai can also listen comfortably, and sometimes he will Clap along.

And these soldiers did not expect that Li Tai would also bow his head to chat with them and show them respect as soldiers, especially when they were injured, they felt the preciousness of this respect.

At the same time, for some veterans whose hands and feet were disabled due to fighting on the battlefield, at least they might not be able to participate in the battlefield in the future. Li Tai also went to ask them if they wanted to join the bad people he created, but they needed to go to Youzhou in the future.

For the bad people, an organization of disabled veterans, Li Shimin acquiesced in their existence.

Li Tai resettled some people in Gaoling, but the number was about 500, mainly just to maintain law and order on the street.

As for the thieves who were caught, they were thrown into the mine with compassion and let the thieves be reformed through labor and reform.

But that's all there is to it.After all, even if Gaoling is not Chang'an, it is still the transportation hub of the entire Guanzhong. If there are too many people, it will not be a safe thing to be controlled by Li Tai. After 500 people, Gaoling will not be allowed to recruit.

Li Tai only resettled bad people in Youzhou, and the imperial court also encouraged this.

After all, compared to Chang'an, Youzhou is naturally considered a place of bitter cold, and it is necessary to increase the population to the frontier. At least before the Anshi Rebellion, Datang encouraged this matter.

Not to mention, under the leadership of Li Tai, Youzhou created a treaty port like Tianjin, which became the economic hub of the Northland.

This made the environment in Youzhou more complicated, so the court still encouraged some veterans to go to Youzhou to maintain order.

Of course, even if Li Tai stepped forward, it would not be so easy to solve this matter.

After all, it is normal that the homeland is difficult to leave, not to mention that most of these soldiers have fertile land and children in the local area.

Even if they go home injured, there may not be anyone at home to support them. Compared with this, they have to travel thousands of miles to Youzhou, which makes people somewhat hesitant.

People leave their hometowns and are poor, the water and soil are not acclimatized, and the land is resettled. There are many reasons for not wanting to leave the homeland.

But there is often only one reason why people are forced to leave their hometown, that is, they cannot see a future in their hometown.

So Li Tai didn't take it for granted that he was a first-rank prince, and then they would naturally come over.

Instead, let them go home and think about it. When they think about it, it's the same to go directly to Gaoling to sign up.

For Li Tai, the high-quality talents of this era are either scholars, or this group of killers.

Those Confucian talents who are studying, I don't expect them to take the initiative to join them, but Li Tai is very willing to see these killers enrich the grassroots management.

This is also convenient for him to control Youzhou from a long distance. After all, he simply relies on the colleges from his own agricultural school to manage the grassroots, and it is prone to monopoly over time.

And monopoly will inevitably lead to corruption, and the grassroots will be rotten at that time, so it is still necessary to add a passionate and impulsive force to the grassroots. It is necessary to let the grassroots have the courage to draw their swords, but not to draw their swords at every turn.

However, for these embryo killers on the battlefield, they naturally don't see it so far away, they only think that King Yan is really kind and kind.

Even if Li Jing watched Li Tai's actions, in Li Jing's understanding, it was more of Li Tai's intention to buy people's hearts.

For this point, Li Jing felt a bit of a headache looking at Li Tai, but Li Jing did not stop Li Tai, and even secretly asked people to count those soldiers who were willing to go to Youzhou to be bad people, and planned to hand them over to Li Tai in the future .

In the final analysis, Li Jing was cautious and independent, he didn't intend to participate in the Xuanwu Gate change last time, and now that he was 60 years old, he really didn't want to participate in the dispute between Li Tai and Li Chengqian.

Although there was no direct collision between the two, no one can see that the two saints' sons are different from each other up to now.

Why was the crown prince the final executor of the "Grass Seed Project" produced by King Yan, and why King Yan came to attack Tuyuhun with himself in the end?

Even, they all saw Li Shimin's hesitation, the hesitation of the decisive saint in the matter of establishing a reserve!
If Li Shimin really wanted to suppress Li Tai, took the "Grass Seed Project" directly, and then threw Li Tai back to Youzhou, ate it up, and made Li Tai never return to Chang'an, then everyone would not think too much.

However, King Yan was allowed to lead the army independently, and King Yan continued to display his talents in different aspects and had the opportunity to contact the army.

Therefore, Li Jing honestly followed the rules and said that he would not be directly involved in this matter.

But now, Li Tai was planning to resettle these injured and disabled soldiers to a certain extent. To be honest, as long as they were generals in the army, no one could see that Li Tai was buying people's hearts, but none of them said much.

After all, even the Tang Dynasty, which advocated martial arts, who really thought about these old, weak, sick and disabled.

That is to say, King Yan was really doing this, and began to arrange for the veterans to find a way out for them.

Others may not be sure, but if anyone in the army wants to cut off the retreat of the veterans, he will naturally be resisted by the entire sergeant.

After all, glory belongs to the commander, and greatness belongs to the soldiers. Even if a military god like Li Jing does such a thing, he will be stabbed in the back.

So not only Li Jing, but also the generals tacitly sorted out the soldiers, and then asked them to go to Li Tai for unified arrangements.

After all, how could these generals not know about people leaving their hometowns and being humble, but it is better to let these soldiers unite to a certain extent than to arrange them randomly.

After all, in this era, both fellow countrymen and comrades-in-arms are important support for survival in different places.

Therefore, Li Tai's willingness to give a soldier with a broken arm and a few legs a certain job, in the silence of the generals above, more or less passed on to the bottom of the army. Let Li Tai invisibly add a bit of prestige.

This kind of thing is actually an invitation to buy people's hearts. If it's not Li Tai, but someone else, the list of impeachment is already on the way.

But now, Li Tai didn't directly buy the soldiers, but only promised the soldiers to enter the bad people to help maintain law and order in the border areas, and the bad people were organizations that the court acquiesced, and Li Tai only recruited disabled soldiers, even if It is a bribe, and others can also be regarded as a sentence of benevolence and righteousness.

After all, it is a trivial matter for King Yan to be impeached for this kind of thing. If the saint is here, King Yan will be scolded at most.

The real problem is that when King Yan said to let go, he let go, and then added, you can find a way to settle down the disabled soldiers, then you will really sit on wax.

After all, these days, it's really not a skill to find faults, because it's a person who is not feeling well, so they can find faults.

But solving problems is the real talent. If the person who solves the problems can find a way to pay for the implementation, he will be even more talented.

As for further turning waste into treasure, allowing these disabled soldiers to have jobs again, be able to work, support themselves, and contribute to the city where they are located, the person who manages all this is said to be a talent of the state, absolutely nothing point.

As for how smart Li Tai is, it doesn't matter how smart he is. Along the way, he has been calculated by others, and he has suffered losses due to his mistakes. But Li Tai's ability to do practical things, and to do practical things well, makes it difficult for many people to match.

Because they kicked Li Tai off, if they really couldn't do it, I could do it.

However, Li Tai didn't feel too much time, because after Li Tai dealt with the wounded problem in a mess, Li Jing called Li Tai to discuss military affairs.

Compared with the respect that everyone in the barracks had for me when I came here last time, they respected me a little more this time.

But Li Tai honestly came to his own position, which was Li Jing's left hand side, there was no way, in terms of status, Li Jing's status was not as high as his own, so he sat next to Li Jing.

However, for most military matters, Li Tai insisted that Li Jing would never make mistakes, and he just nodded.If there is an operation that Li Jing does not understand, then re-read the principles of this rule.

So for these military conferences, Li Tai is basically Li Jing's clay sculpture and wood carving posture in the court hall.

At this time, Li Jing raised a strategic question, "We have verified that Murong Fuyun's body is indeed Murong Fuyun himself, and since nearly [-] young adults were buried here in Tuyuhun, we have completed our purpose.

Then shall we wait for the sage to send lobbyists to take advantage of the situation and force Murong Fushun to surrender. "

Hearing Li Jing's words, Li Tai looked at Li Jing in surprise. He originally thought that Li Jing would follow the trend to attack after defeating Murong Fuyun, but he didn't expect that Li Jing would release such an idea, which made everyone look at each other in dismay.

But Li Jing, as the commander-in-chief, such considerations are reasonable.

After all, war is not fighting and killing, but the continuation of politics. For Li Jing, if Tuyuhun can be surrendered at the least cost, then now is naturally the best time.

After all, such a disastrous defeat, for a small country like Tuyuhun, really hurt the bones and shaken the foundation of the country.

And it must be said that the next war will move towards the real plateau area, and the logistical pressure brought about by this will be absolutely explosive.

Therefore, in Li Jing's view, it is naturally the best to be able to settle this matter through the peace talks. Otherwise, if you really want to climb to Qinghai to fight Tuyuhun, it's not that you can't fight, but it feels a little troublesome.

Of course, Li Jing made such a suggestion based on the overall situation, but it also gave everyone a chance to discuss and did not make a decision right away. This allowed everyone to speak freely instead of directly issuing a decision.

"This, this..." Hou Junji was the first to jump out and said, "Hu people are afraid of power and not virtuous, just fighting such a battle may not be enough. I don't think we should go to their tribe to kill them. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to come from Liangzhou in the future!"

As far as Hou Junji was concerned, he originally thought that he was the number one in military exploits after capturing Shancheng, but no matter how successful he was, his merit was greater than that of Li Tai who directly shot Murong Fuyun with ten thousand arrows through his heart.

Now that Li Tai obediently went to the medical camp behind, at this time, it is natural to find a way to earn more meritorious service, how could he stop, after all, the soldiers below are still screaming!

For the government soldiers, they had a lot to gain from looting from the city after they broke through the city.

Don’t say that the Tang army is Hou Junji. Even if Li Shimin went to crusade against Goguryeo and didn’t want the soldiers to plunder, in order to satisfy the soldiers under his command, he needed to use his own money to redeem his own money, instead of killing the soldiers with a single sentence. .

Still the same sentence, the military system of the government cannot rely on military discipline, it is purely based on the self-consciousness of the soldiers, but looking at the records of the Tang army's external campaigns, it can basically be seen that as long as the city is captured, don't expect the soldiers to have military discipline.

Regarding this point, Li Tai is also blind, because the military system has not been reformed and the military discipline that does not disturb the people is simply emphasized, that is purely a stupid order.

With Hou Junji taking the lead, in fact, other generals also stood up and shouted a few words, and basically they all agreed to continue marching to Qinghai Lake.

Because Li Tai took the lead, Hou Junji occupied Shancheng, but they had nothing, especially a clan uncle named Li Daoyan, who immediately stood up and expressed his opinion.

Under such circumstances, they naturally hoped to earn more meritorious service. Besides, it would be good for soldiers without meritorious service to snatch some livestock, cattle and sheep.

It was as if pigs could fly while standing in the wind. For these generals, they had won the main force collision with Tuyuhun, and now they wanted to further expand the results of the battle. It must be unwilling for the generals to stop at this time.

Seeing this scene, Li Tai couldn't help but nodded. The soldiers were willing to go further and choose to fight. It was best for him. Even if Li Jing is a military god who has won many battles, it is impossible to disobey the wishes of the entire army.

Li Jing scanned the battlefield, and nodded in satisfaction seeing that everyone was aroused to fight.

For Li Jing, what he fears the most is that the soldiers under his command will not have the morale to continue fighting, so he will give it a try, but it looks very good now.

However, when Li Jing set his eyes on Li Tai's face, he couldn't help but be a bit puzzled when he saw Li Tai's satisfied expression.

Because for Li Tai, it doesn't matter whether he continues to fight or stops. After all, Li Tai's contribution is definitely the first. Give it a try.

Li Jing said to Li Tai, "King Yan, what do you think?"

"Me?" Li Tai said calmly, "Of course I also agree to continue sending troops to Qinghai!"

"Qinghai? You mean Xihai!" Li Jing heard Li Tai's words and understood Li Tai's meaning.

In this era, Qinghai Lake was not yet called Qinghai Lake, and people in the Tang Dynasty basically regarded it as the sea.

And Li Tai didn't mean to be entangled, but said calmly at this time:

"I don't mind if it's a forced battle or a forced surrender, but Qinghai must have a place directly under my Datang!"

Li Jing narrowed his eyes immediately when he heard the decisiveness in Li Tai's words.

Because Li Jing knows Li Tai well, let's not talk about his ability, but his vision in strategic planning is unique, Li Jing is still convinced, and he can't help saying, "Please, King Yan, explain it in detail."

(End of this chapter)