Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 371
Thinking of this, Wang Wenzuo began to take stock of the forces he could use: first of all, the Tang army stationed in Baekje. In terms of strength alone, this force is undoubtedly the strongest, but unfortunately, this army has been guarding outside for many years now. The veterans are tired, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit. How can such an army be useful?The second is the power of local tyrants in Baekje, especially those newly promoted tyrants who have established a personal loyalty relationship with Wang Wenzuo himself. Their problem is that after years of war, they have limited power and are willing to intervene in the Japanese archipelago. Also average; the third is the Japanese who surrendered after the Battle of Baijiangkou. These people were very active in overthrowing the eldest brother and prince, and there were a lot of them. The problem is that these people have an intricate relationship with the Yamato Dynasty, and they will be backlashed if they are not careful; The fourth is the 2000 people brought by Wang Wenzuo from Chang'an. If they can lure us with huge profits and use them properly, they will be a very useful force. The problem is that the number of people is limited, and although they have a solid foundation in personal martial arts, they have only participated in fights before. , has never fought a war, lacks military experience, and Wang Wenzuo has no relationship with him, so it may not be handy to use.

Of course, the most difficult thing for Wang Wenzuo now is not the military issue. After all, the Japanese were still diplomatic mediation at the beginning.Brother Zhong and the Japanese aristocrats are not gods, they can see through the reality of these troops under Wang Wenzuo. Although several months have passed since the Baijiangkou victory, it can still be used for a period of time to intimidate people.But the actual situation of the army is not known unless it fights. The strength of the sea power cannot be deceived. The ships float on the water. How many ships there are and how big the ships are can be seen at a glance, and no one can hide it.Diplomatic intimidation and political promises are ineffective without a fleet large enough to land sufficient numbers of troops across the sea.The army can be trained and reorganized slowly, but the construction of the fleet must be started immediately.

Thinking of this, Wang Wenzuo also felt a dull pain in his two temples. At the beginning, he was able to make a few boats under the city of Sibi because he was fighting at that time. If he lacked materials, he could directly pick up Baekje palaces and temples. For food, just give some symbolic wages.Now if you dare to do this, just wait for the civil uprising!But if it starts from scratch, just logging and obtaining materials is a big project, and the things behind it are almost unthinkable.

"Forget it, let's recruit soldiers to log first! At most, some money will be given as a subsidy!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "Fortunately, I got some private money in Chang'an this time, otherwise I really don't know what to do!"

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"Big Brother, Big Brother!" Wang Pu kicked the straw sandals away, and climbed up the ladder in three steps and two steps: "Wang Canjun is back, Wang Canjun is back from Chang'an!"

"What?" Wang Gao, who was laying grass on the roof, put down his work and turned around: "Fourth, this is not a joke, really?"

"Brother, I heard what Zen Master Huicong said, can there be a fake? There has been a disturbance in the temple!" Wang Pu said loudly: "I heard that Wang Canjun was promoted. Now it seems to be a Japanese country, a Japanese country? Consolation to the Japanese country. Ambassador, what a great official!"

"You guys continue to work!" Wang Po yelled at the servants who stopped next to him, and said to Wang Pu: "Fourth, go to the back garden to pick a few baskets of good melons and eggplants, and grab ten more. Hen, get some eggs, let's go visit his old man!"

"Hey!" Wang Pu responded, and was about to pick melons and vegetables, but saw Wang Gao walking out with a hoe, and asked, "Brother, what are you doing here?"

"The second child is catching fish at the creek at the head of the village!" Wang Yu replied without turning his head, "I'll go and see, and if there are any big fish, I'll pick a few and bring them to the old man!"

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Sibi City, Wang Wenzuo's residence.

"These local products are a little thought from the villain!" Wang Po pointed to the vegetable baskets, struggling chickens, eggs, and a few fresh fishes under the hall and said, "I heard from my fourth brother yesterday that you came back from Chang'an. The villain just wanted to visit your old man, please try this little thing, and please accept it!"

"Your name is Wang Hao!" Wang Wenzuo looked at the dark-skinned man in front of him, and nodded: "You are the first one in my party to visit. I will remember this friendship! Sancho!"

"The little guy is here!"

"Go inside and get a piece of Shu brocade!"

"It's the master!"

After a while, Sanqiu came back with a bolt of silk from the inside. Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, "I brought this back from Chang'an. The brocade from Shu is my gift in return. Please accept it!"

Wang Po stretched out his hands and took the brocade carefully from Sancho's hand. The thick and smooth touch came from his fingertips, as if in a dream, he quickly lowered his head: "Little man, little man—" for a while, he didn't know what to say what.

"It's okay, just accept it!" Wang Wenzuo interrupted his thanks: "Otherwise, I won't be able to accept your gift!"

"Yes, yes!" Wang Pu kowtowed several times in a row: "Thank you for your generous gift, thank you for your generous gift!"

"Yeah!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, "Wang Yu, it's not easy for you to come to Sibi City, so stay and have a meal together before leaving!"

"Yes, yes!" Wang Po replied twice, looked around carefully, and said with a smile: "I heard from the fourth son that you went to Chang'an this time and got promoted again. I don't know if it is true or not?"

"That's right!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, "That's true. I have been favored by the emperor in Chang'an this time, and I am already a general of Dingyuan, a consolation ambassador of the Japanese state, and a fifth-rank official position!"

"General Dingyuan, the consolation ambassador of the Japanese country, is the fifth grade?" Wang Pu's eyes widened, and he looked unsure. When Wang Wenzuo saw this, he explained with a smile: "General Dingyuan is a loose order, just a hairpin. I can't do much for the official salary, and the comfort ambassador of the Japanese country is the official who let me handle the affairs of the Japanese people!"

"Does that mean that the affairs of the Japanese people will be handled by you from now on?"

"It's almost the same!" Wang Wenzuo laughed, poured a cup of tea, and handed it to Wang Po: "This tea is also brought from Chang'an, you should try it too!"

"Ah, ah!" Wang Pu hurriedly took the teacup and drank it carefully.Wang Wenzuo smiled and said, "How?"

"Chang'an's tea is naturally extraordinary!" Wang Pu hurriedly said.

"If you like it, you can take some back to taste!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile.

"Well, thank you so much!"

"It doesn't matter, these tea leaves are intended to be given away!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, "I remember your mother is still in the hall. Drinking some tea is good for your health when you are old!"

Wang Po took the tea bag from Sangqiu, and didn't know what to say with his mouth open. Wang Wenzuo smiled and chatted with him. Wang Pu gradually relaxed and talked about the farm at home. , The atmosphere in the house gradually became active.

"Master, the meal is ready!" Sancho whispered.

"Well, let's serve it up and eat together!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, Sancho responded, and after a while, two maidservants brought up the food. In Tang Dynasty, the food sharing system was still in place. Wang Gao and Wang Wenzuo each had three dishes in front of them: one Fish, a tofu mixed with eggs, and a hot leek.Wang Gao thanked him, and picked up his chopsticks to eat.

"Wang Po, how do you eat at home? How many days can you eat meat?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"About a month or two!" Wang Gao quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and replied carefully.

"A month or two?" Wang Wenzuo frowned: "How many fields does your family have?"

"It's about seven or eight hundred acres!"

"What about the pastures and mountains?"

"I don't measure this in detail, it's a lot anyway!"

"With so many fields, how come you only eat meat once a month or two?"

"Your Majesty doesn't know that it's been less than a year since the war subsided, and there are still plenty of places to spend money and food, so—"

Wang Wenzuo nodded, and pondered for a moment: "I will organize a hunt in a few days, and you can also bring some good archers to come!"

"That's good!" Wang Hao said with a smile: "Last winter, during the slack season, I trained the young men in the village well, just to let Mr. Wang see their skills. Dare I ask, where is the hunting place?"

"It's on the side of Luwei Ze, there are a lot of prey there!"

"Luwei Ze?" Wang Po's face changed drastically: "Mr. Lang, that's the former royal hunting garden over there. Can we go hunting there?"

"I say it's fine, you don't have to worry!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Bring some prey back when the time comes, so that your family will also get some meat!"

Wang Gao finished his meal and left quickly.Wang Wenzuo walked into the courtyard with a gloomy expression on his face. He walked around twice and saw Sancho sitting on the steps in front of the hall, waxing his bowstring, and asked, "Sangcho, if I use troops against the Japanese, would you Do you think Wang Po will come?"

"Of course!" Sancho put down the horn bow in his hand: "He will definitely come back, and he will bring at least 20 people!"

"But he is still very poor!"

"Very poor? It's okay!" Sancho said with a smile: "At least it's much better than before. Last winter, no one in his village starved to death, and his family ate corn, beans, and barley. The winter before last year, his family had nothing to eat." I want to compete with wild boars in the mountains for acorns!"

"Eat acorns for the winter?"

"Yeah, in fact, his house is pretty good. At least there are acorns on the mountain next to his house to pick up. They can be eaten after being ground into powder to make porridge, but they can't be pulled out after eating. Farmers in many places don't even have acorns in winter. You don’t even have to eat! Being idle at home in winter is also idle, and he might even get some spoils if he takes someone out to sea with you to fight the Japanese, so why not do it!”

Hearing Sancho's answer, Wang Wenzuo couldn't help laughing. The reality can always break through the lower limit of his imagination. He thought that the Baekje Lang party had already become landlords after the land was divided, but he didn't expect these newly-become landlords. The guys living in such a poor life, but this is a good thing for me, the poorer the mobilization cost is.

"Master, are you really planning to send troops to fight the Japanese?" Sancho asked

"It's not sure yet!" Wang Wenzuo didn't intend to hide it from Sancho, "But you have to be prepared, Sancho, you also prepare your manpower, and I will also see your ability when hunting!"

"As ordered!"

In the following days, more and more Baekje Lang Party members came to Sibi to see Wang Wenzuo. Most of them were still poor. It would be nice to have an old horse. Most of them rode horses. Donkeys or mules, some people even came on foot, Wang Wenzuo received them equally regardless of whether they were rich or poor, gave them gifts, stayed for dinner, and invited them to participate in the upcoming hunt.

"Brother Yi, these Baekje people are really poor!" A vicious boy pointed at the Baekje people who were talking to the gatekeeper and laughed, "It's fine with only a rough linen clothes on. There is no leg wrap, the bow on the back does not even have a decent bow bait, and the gifts are some melons, fruits, eggplants, two pieces of leather, half a basket of eggs and so on. That Wang Sima even received one by one from the hall , these could not be his poor relatives?"

Wu Xiaoyi looked at the Baekje people who entered the door, snorted coldly, and did not speak.Naturally, he knew much more about Wang Wenzuo's situation than these villainous boys, so he naturally didn't take these weird words to heart, but he grew up in Chang'an since he was a child, so he naturally looked down on these poor men from other countries.

Seeing that Wu Xiaoyi was still silent, the evil boy said with a smile: "Brother Xiaoyi, have you heard? Wang Sima will organize a hunt in a few days, and it will be in Luwei Lake outside the city. I heard that it is the private place of King Baekje." Yuan, just like the Yulong River in the west of Chang'an, these poor ghosts will also go together!"

"What? Hunting?" Wu Xiaoyi straightened his body: "Where did you hear the news?"

"I heard it from a cook, and I heard her say that the kitchen has been busy making dry food for the past few days, all in preparation for that day's hunting!" If you don't show your hand, let these poor barbarians open their eyes!"

"I'm good at using crossbows, but I'm not so good at riding and shooting!" Wu Xiaoyi said: "Wang Sima has a lot of talents, be careful not to make a fool of yourself!"

"There is no rule that crossbows cannot be used for hunting! Brother Yi, as the saying goes, a strong dragon does not overwhelm a snake. We have come from a long distance, so we cannot be overwhelmed by these snakes!"

Wu Xiaoyi snorted coldly, didn't speak, only spat after a while: "Go, go to Luwei Ze!"

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"Zen Master Huicong, Cui Hongdu, I will trouble you two this time to submit the letter of credence to Japan!" Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice.

"I obey!" The two responded in unison, Cui Hongdu smiled and said: "It's a pity that I can't catch up with the hunt, otherwise I really want to loosen my muscles and bones!"

"No way, time is running out!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "Almost ten months have passed since the Battle of Baijiangkou, and the Japanese stone city has been repaired for at least several months. If it is delayed, I'm afraid it will be even worse. unfavorable!"

"Minggong!" Huicong asked, "Don't worry too much about this. A few days ago, I heard that the Japanese sent envoys to Silla, and their words were very humble. According to the poor monk, the Japanese are already frightened!"

(End of this chapter)