Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 576 Jinyi
It can be said that although the Tang army in the middle and early stages of Taizong and Gaozong and the Tang army in the Xuanzong period carried the same banner, they were two completely different armies.The former is an "army of the country". The main body of soldiers is the middle and upper class of northern peasant households in the Tang Dynasty. The rewards of honored officers and fields did not break away from the social organization at that time; although the latter also belonged to the Tang Dynasty in name, the source of soldiers was very complicated. There were landless Han peasants, minority mercenaries, and dilapidated nobles. Children of bureaucrats, whose main source of income is military pay and spoils of war, once they join the army, they break away from their original social organization and join the closed social group of the army.

The reason why the military power of the empire fell from the mid-to-late period of Gaozong to Xuanzong was because it happened to be in the process of the transformation of the two armies, and Wang Wenzuo's success was largely because he took the initiative to cater to this transformation and reached the peak of the times. front row.The soldiers under his command come from different countries, different nationalities, different cultures, and different beliefs. The only thing that connects them is the desire for victory and wealth.But Wang Wenzuo met the requirements of the soldiers, and these soldiers were able to endure all kinds of hardships, leave their hometowns and travel thousands of miles away, and defeat enemies that far outnumbered themselves, which the original government soldier system could not do.The price is that this army is no longer obedient to the empire, it is like a young dragon that has just crawled out of its eggs, its eyes wide open, looking for its own future.

"It's impossible to do nothing. After all, many of the soldiers under my command are from the Japanese country, and the Jinshan Yinshan Copper Mine Sugar Factory is also in the Japanese country!" Wang Wenzuo pondered for a long time: "How about it, Wenzong, go to the Japanese country for a while!" Go to Yangzhou, recruit 1000 people locally, and return to Ryukyu by boat!"

"Is 1000 people enough?" Cao Wenzong asked in surprise.

"Enough!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Remember, everyone should prepare a brocade robe, and everyone should choose a tall man, not less than seven feet. The flag, armor, and weapon should be good, and they should be bright and bright, so that the Japanese will be impressed by them at a glance." I want to lament the majesty of the Heavenly Soldiers of the Kingdom! Do you understand?"

"This, this——" Cao Wenzong was stunned: "Ming Gong, although he is tall and strong, but after all, it is not all about strength to fight, why do you have to wear a brocade robe? The price is not cheap, It’s not the imperial guards guarding the Vermilion Bird Gate, so what’s the use of looking good?”

"Wen Zong, you still don't understand!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "What is lacking right now in the Wa country is not soldiers, but people's hearts and general trends, understand?"

"People's hearts? General trend?" Cao Wenzong looked at a loss.

"Well! As the saying goes, you can win the world immediately, but you can't rule the world immediately!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "After I conquered the Wa Kingdom, I occupied most of the Zhuangtian, gold and silver mines, and copper mountains in Kinki, and sealed the outlying country Mao to The brave men who serve me, in exchange for their loyalty. But most of these brave men are from reckless, no noble blood, and no retainers accumulated for generations to advise them. Many of them are men who rose up by themselves. Therefore, their rule over the marginal areas is generally not very good, and the result is rebellion every three days, but the rebellion in various parts of the Wa country is actually not a big deal, and it is all within my expectations. After all, the household registration density in the Kinki area of ​​the Wa country is more than In other areas, as long as Fujiwara Bubi and He Bayong don't cause chaos in the Kinki area, they can deploy forces from various places to suppress them one by one, without me sending them reinforcements from other places!"

Cao Wenzong has followed Wang Wenzuo for a long time, and he has long been used to the other party's way of speaking, and he heard the subtext: "So this time is different?"

"Well! After all, Fujiwara's best way to deal with the rebellion is to recruit samurai and soldiers from the west to conquer the rebellion in the east. After the rebellion is settled down, the land, property, and tribesmen of the rebels will be redistributed once, and the idiots who caused the trouble will be punished. , confiscate their land, and reward meritorious persons. There are two advantages in this way: first, the idiots who won the fiefdom with military exploits but could not even be masters can be eliminated and replaced with capable people; The second presides over the distribution of territories and the distribution of rewards can increase my child's prestige among the samurai. But if there is a rebellion in the east, west, north and south, then Fujiwara Bubi and He Bayong will not be able to handle it!"

"This time the east, west, north and south are in chaos together?"

"Well, otherwise they wouldn't have written to me specifically, otherwise what would I want them to do!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "In the final analysis, there are still Silla people behind the scenes! But the Silla people didn't want to do this! The attack on the Wa country is just to let me fall into it. The deeper the trap, the better. It is best to fight exhausted in the Wa country. When they start troubles in the future, I will be powerless to intervene! I bet this trick must be the old fox Jin Yuxin I figured it out, I can smell his foul smell thousands of miles away!"

"Jin Yuxin? Isn't it Jin Famin?" Cao Wenzong asked.

"Jin Famin is still young, and his knowledge is still shallow!" Wang Wenzuo sneered, completely oblivious to how much younger he was than Jin Famin.He twirled the beard under his chin: "Jin Chunqiu and Jin Yuxin are two old guys who have been vixens for thousands of years. They have changed from a chess piece to a chess player abruptly, which makes people admire. Do you know? This old guy Make the water muddy so you can catch fish!"

"I have heard about this. The last letter from the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion said that the Silla people had sent a Goguryeo royal Shuzong in their hands to the Liaodong rebels!"

"Humph!" Wang Wenzuo sneered, "This unlucky guy probably won't have a long life, and most likely he will die at the hands of Silla people!"

"In the hands of Silla people? Why do you say that?"

"I dealt with Silla people a lot when I was in Baekje, let's put it this way! Silla people are a hundred times more terrifying as allies than enemies. They will dig traps on your way forward, sit back and watch you fall into them, and then Forced you to empty your pockets to buy a life-saving rope. Do you think that the Silla people sent the descendants of the Goryeo royal family to the rebels to support his restoration of the country? You are wrong, he is making trouble for Gao Kan, forcing Gao Kan If you can't use your strength to deal with the encroachment of the Silla people on the border, as long as Gao Kan meets the conditions of the Silla people, the Silla people will immediately sell this poor guy to Gao Kan!"

Cao Wenzong opened his mouth wide and looked at Wang Wenzuo dumbfounded, his head couldn't keep up.Seeing the appearance of his subordinates, Wang Wenzuo sighed in disappointment: "Don't you understand yet? For the people of Silla, with the lessons learned from the Goguryeo people, it is very dangerous to rashly start a direct war with Datang, so the best way is to Always be an ally of Datang, so that it will be convenient for you to stab the knife from behind!"

"Then, then why didn't Gao Duhu directly send troops to conquer Silla?"

"No soldiers, no money! How to fight?" Wang Wenzuo sneered and said: "Xue Rengui lost 10 people in Dafeichuan, all of whom were veterans. It will take three to five years at least for the court to fill this vacancy. When the imperial court requests to conquer Silla, the Minister of the Household Department will be the first to fight with him!"

Cao Wenzong sighed: "The Tang Dynasty is rich, why did Dafeichuan lose a battle and become like this?"

"It is true that the Tang Dynasty was rich, but every foot of cloth makes a foot of clothes, and there is no more cloth. Xue Rengui lost 10 people in Dafeichuan all at once, not counting soldiers, but just armored weapons, livestock and horses." Tens of millions are gone, how much is the annual revenue of the imperial court? How do you make it up? Can’t be made up!" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "Wen Zong, I won’t hide it from you. You can’t rely on the imperial court for things in the east. We rely on ourselves. Since the Silla people are making trouble on my territory, I will not be polite. Aren’t Wu Xiaoyi and the others in Silla? After you take 1000 people to Wa Kingdom, don’t come back for a while, stay in Silla Here, do a few things for me!"

"Obey!" Cao Wenzong hastily bowed his hands and saluted: "Then the recruiters will follow your request, each wearing a brocade robe?"

"That's right, you still don't understand?" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "Silla people will not send troops to Japan. The more soldiers I send, the more money and food I have to spend. Once the soldiers are gone, no grass will grow. The war will only get bigger and bigger, and in the end, the chaos will be over, and there will be nothing left in the area. Those rebels in the Wa country just raised their troops because they heard that the Tang Dynasty had suffered a big defeat and was dying. Send a thousand people dressed in brocade robes, with a distinctive appearance, and the Japanese bumpkins will immediately understand that Tang Dynasty is still a man of heaven. Most of them will naturally drop their weapons and surrender, and the remaining few will be easy to deal with. .”

"I understand!" Cao Wenzong felt sorry for this, and hurriedly said: "I will immediately buy a thousand pieces of high-quality Shu brocade, and take them to Yangzhou to make battle robes!"

"Go, go!" Hearing this, Wang Wenzuo couldn't help feeling a little heartbroken. The thousand pieces of Shu brocade are not a small number, but compared to the military expenditure, they are a small number.When Cao Wenzong left, he picked up the letter again and read it twice before burning it with a candle.Now that he has achieved the position of a feudal official, he has realized more and more the difficulty of maintaining the empire. Outsiders see that you have gold and silver like the sea, and soldiers like mountains, but compared to the troubles to deal with, it is really stretched.The first major task that the emperor must do now is to rebuild Longyou's defense, and this requires money and food. Jiannan Road, as the emperor's Xiku, will definitely have to bleed severely.

"Ming Gong!" Yiji Lianbode came in from the door: "Liu Rengui has left Beijing!"

"Out of Beijing, didn't he just enter the Political Affairs Hall? Why did he leave Beijing again? Did he offend the emperor or the queen?"

"Not at all! The emperor asked him to be the governor of Longzhou, and he should be responsible for the transfer of money and food to Longyou!" Yiji Lianbode handed over the document.

"Oh?" Wang Wenzuo took the document with a smile, and carefully read it twice: "There is also the recruitment of the people in Guanzhong to go to Longyou to guard the border. This is an errand that offends people! But the emperor did choose the right person, Liu Gong is not afraid of offending People's people!"

"Recruit the people in Guanzhong?"

"Well, the simple hand is Sanfu, the area around Chang'an, where the population is the densest!" Wang Wenzuo threw the document aside: "Whether it is building a city or farming farms, people are needed, and Longyou is short of people. After the battle, there will be even more shortage of people. If you want to rebuild the Longyou Army, the first thing you need to do is to find people. However, most of the land in Sanfu is in the hands of noble clans, and most of the population is under Qiyu. Liu If you want to get enough relocation, you have to move the migrants in Chang'an City, or move the hidden households of the big families. Both of these are not easy to deal with!"

"That's true!" Igillian Bode recalled the situation at that time: "At the beginning, tens of thousands of vicious boys were sent from Chang'an to cause such a big mess, and the eastern and western cities were burned. I don't know what will happen this time. !"

"Let's leave this matter to Mr. Liu to worry about! We have our own things to worry about! Yiji Lianbode, let me ask you a question, if I ask you to raise 20 pieces of brocade, are you sure?"

"How long?"

"Go to Chang'an with the autumn tax!" Wang Wenzuo said: "The emperor favored me to be the envoy of Jiannan Zhidu Yingtian to dispose of soldiers and horses. Central Sichuan has always been famous for its wealth. Now the imperial court is facing hardships. You have to be ignorant, instead of waiting for the emperor to speak, it is better to take the initiative to pay for it yourself!"

"That means there are still three months left!" Yiji Lianbode thought for a while: "Such a large number is uncertain in the next time. I need to discuss it with Mr. Xiaolang first, and then I will give you an answer!"

"Xiao Langjun?" Wang Wenzuo was taken aback when he heard the words, and then realized that Yiji Lianbode was talking about Wang Ence, and he frowned: "Discuss with him? Why do you want to discuss with him?"

"That's what happened. During this period of time, the contacts with merchants in Chengdu and other places in central Sichuan were all done by Mr. Xiaolang. For a figure as large as 20 pieces of silk, we must not only rely on merchants in Chengdu, but also need to cooperate with merchants from other places. If you don't discuss it with Mr. Xiao Lang, I really don't know what to do!"

"Oh?" Wang Wenzuo frowned: "Ence, no, the little brother has done well during this time?"

"At the beginning, Mr. Xiao Lang was a bit unfamiliar, but he was very hardworking and diligent, and he learned how to deal with people quickly. Now he is quite famous in the business circles in Central Shu, and several chambers of commerce want to elect him as the leader!"

"Elect him as the leader of the meeting?" Wang Wenzuo snorted coldly: "Those old foxes are not easy to deal with. They must want to set Ence on top of them, right?"

"It was true at the beginning, but after a long time, those merchants also found that Mr. Xiao Lang is not a person to be bullied, and your prestige and official position are getting better and better. Unless you are a fool, how dare you do this?"

"I didn't expect this kid to actually do it!" Wang Wenzuo muttered to himself. He kicked Wang Ence to Yiji Lianbode at the beginning because he didn't want to see this disgusting thing again, and let him stay far away to fend for himself.But he didn't expect that he would show some pretense in Chengdu. Regardless of whether he was relying on himself to pretend to be a tiger, but the results are the results. Once the achievements are made, they must be recognized. This is the basic condition for an organization to be able to maintain.

(End of this chapter)