Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 162: Lingnan, the place that makes people feel terrified after understanding it, and the tragic two people
Li Yuanji has been somewhat worried during this period. After all, in his opinion, with so much time left, he no longer has to travel as slowly as he did when he first came to Lingnan. Now that there is a sea route, it can be said that the journey is much faster than before.

Li Yuanji opened the letter and after reading it, he was immediately delighted. He finally understood why the two were so slow.

It was not for any other reason, but because the money, food, and supplies, including military equipment, that the two men brought from Chang'an directly exceeded the original expectations, and they did not bring enough manpower, so Li Yuan sent people to escort them all the way, and finally took a boat from Hangzhou.

However, an embarrassing problem arose again. After Wang Xuance arrived, the large ship from Guangzhou had not arrived, and there were not enough large ships in Hangzhou to carry supplies. He stayed in Hangzhou for some time, and finally set off again after the large ship from Guangzhou arrived.

Li Yuanji could already sense the twists and turns that Wang Xuance and Su Dingfang had encountered along the way from the letters, but thinking about the money, food, supplies, and military equipment that were more than expected, Li Yuanji was really excited.

He was originally worried about the army's ordnance, but now it's all right. Wu Shigui brought 10,000 sets, and Wang Xuance brought some more. Together with the ones made here, at least 20,000 soldiers can be armed. Now the newly formed army has a full set of equipment, and some of it can be shipped to Tan Dian.

Most of the troops in Tan Dian's hands were not wearing armor, only a small number of elite troops had them. Now they could be replenished. With these, Li Yuanji believed that they were enough for him to exchange for what he wanted.

Li Yuanji then looked at Xie Shufang with a smile.

"You have passed this time. This is indeed good news. Xuan Ce and his men are about to arrive. Most importantly, they brought a lot of supplies and important weapons. We are more confident in attacking Linyi next time."

After hearing this, Xie Shufang was also excited. Now that people's livelihood was developing, the military was preparing for the war with Linyi. Their army was relatively small in number, and the new army could not be deployed in the battle because it had no ordnance. He was very worried.

Now it’s all right. No need to worry. At least now we have at least 15,000 more fresh troops, all of whom are fully equipped with weapons. Their combat power is totally different from before.

"Your Majesty, I will tell the news to those bastards in the new army right away. They have been wanting weapons for a long time and want to try them out on the battlefield. Now we can finally let them have their wish."

Li Yuanji smiled and waved his hand, and Xie Shufang went down directly. When Xie Shufang told the news to the new army, they were immediately excited. They had been doing boring training all day long for a long time, and everyone wanted to fight for Li Yuanji, so their restless hearts had never been at peace.

Xue Wanche also smiled after hearing this. He was the one who trained these soldiers most of the time. He also felt proud to see this new army.

At night, Wei Ting and Xue Wanche got together again. Xue Wanche was drinking Drunken Immortal Wine and seemed to be in high spirits, but Wei Ting looked melancholy.

"Wan Che, do you know what I have seen outside these days? I have seen the public opinion of the King of Qi here. All the people, even the newly naturalized people, are willing to die for the King of Qi, not to mention the men, the old and the young, women and children are willing to die for the King of Qi.

You haven't seen the fanaticism in the eyes of the people here. If the King of Qi needs them, these people will really fight for him. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are directly equivalent to hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The King of Qi's reputation here is really too high.

You should know about the statue of King Qi. Every day, a large number of people go there to worship. Yes, they worship. As long as they have time, these people will go there almost every day. They are extremely pious. And this is just Haikang.

We haven't seen other places yet, but what we see right now is simply shocking. Here, everyone only obeys the orders of the King of Qi. The orders of the Saint and the Prince are all meaningless."

Through the visits during this period, Wei Ting has gotten a pretty good understanding of this place, but precisely because of this, Wei Ting is afraid. In Wei Ting's eyes, if Li Yuanji wants to compete for that position, then he will lead hundreds of thousands of troops northward, and who wouldn't be afraid?
Fortunately, through his understanding, he became more aware of the shortage of population in Lingnan. However, the population of Lingnan is increasing now. Even if the population is still small, there are at least several million people. If everyone is willing to fight for Li Yuanji and directly have a million troops, it makes his scalp tingle just thinking about it.

The more he understood, the more he was afraid of Lingnan. Li Yuanji was like a god here.

Now Wei Ting really understood why Li Jiancheng wanted to fight for Li Yuanji. How could he not fight for him? According to this trend, Li Shimin's military power would not be able to catch up with Li Yuanji, especially now that Li Yuanji was about to use troops against Linyi.

Wei Ting never thought that Li Yuanji would fail. Although Li Yuanji's army was not large now, he just did not recruit a large number of young and strong people. Instead, he left a large number of them to reclaim wasteland and build the local area. This led to the small number of Li Yuanji's army now.

But as long as Li Yuanji wanted, he could raise an army of hundreds of thousands in minutes. This mobilization ability is simply terrifying.

Xue Wanche was very calm when listening to Wei Ting's words, and even looked a little happy.

"Zhengping, isn't this a good thing? This shows that the king is very popular here, and the king is on good terms with the prince. The stronger the king is, the more beneficial it will be for the prince.

Actually, I know some of what you said. I am now in charge of the training of the new troops, and sometimes when I chat with them, I can learn a lot.

Do you know that these 15,000 new troops were fought for by these people, and nearly 20,000 were rejected because the king did not want them.

When these people mentioned the king, they were all proud, and everyone's eyes were full of enthusiasm and gratitude. Once such a large army goes to the battlefield, Zhengping, you have also led an army, you should know how powerful the combat effectiveness and will of this army will be.

However, even so, the king still provided these soldiers with military pay and pensions, which the Tang Dynasty did not have!"

The Tang Dynasty inherited the Sui system, and the army adopted the fubing system. The fubing system has its pros and cons, although it seems to be very good at present, because the court does not have to spend money and food, the fubing system is self-sufficient, and although it does not have to pay taxes, it directly saved a lot of money and food in the early days of the court.

Although it is not yet completely perfect, in fact, money and food have been spent, but that was due to the fact that the soldiers could not be self-sufficient. The court only provided weapons and other supplies. As for pensions? I have never heard of that thing.

But now, we can see it here. Moreover, it is not a military system. The army is only responsible for war. The army participated in construction before because there were not enough people and time was tight, so the army was allowed to participate in local construction.

But now that the population has increased, the army has withdrawn. As long as Li Yuanji has incorporated the army, they don't have to do anything else but one thing, which is to train, to train the soldiers. As long as they don't die from training, they will train to death.

After Xue Wanche found out about this, he was extremely shocked, but at the same time he was very envious. He didn't even dare to imagine how strong such an army would be once it was trained and after several major battles.

In his heart, he also wanted to lead such a large army, but he could only think about it, and he could only take this opportunity to lead it. As for the Tang Dynasty, the system is now gradually improving, and it is impossible to implement Li Yuanji's system. If it really goes on, the court will collapse, and the army will probably be in chaos, because the base is too large, and it is not so easy to change it.

Wei Ting glanced at Xue Wanche and said nothing more. Could he say that Xue Wanche was wrong? He couldn't say, because those were just his worries. Moreover, Wei Ting could see that although Xue Wanche was indeed loyal to Li Jiancheng, he also had a good impression of Li Yuanji and was very close to him.

Wei Ting stopped talking about this and started talking about other things.

"Wan Che, you probably don't know yet, but the King of Qi has established an academy here to recruit students and train talents. Because of the lack of teachers, I was drafted by the King of Qi.

Shu Fang told me directly what the King of Qi said, that is, food, drink, defecation, urination and shelter are all prepared for us by the King of Qi. You are already training the new army to repay the debt, and I also have to do work to repay the debt, otherwise he will not let me go and asked me to teach in the academy.

The King of Qi is really different from before."

Wei Ting felt helpless just thinking about it. He could even imagine Li Yuanji's shameless look. This could be brought up as an issue. He did not refuse. Besides this, he also wanted to see what this academy was all about.

In his eyes, this academy was not simple, it was almost equivalent to the Imperial College of the imperial court, so he paid great attention to it.

Xue Wanche laughed out loud when he heard this.

"Haha, you are worthy of being the king. It is just like when we were in Chang'an. Ever since you asked to go to Lingnan, you have been like this. To be honest, I like this kind of king.

By the way, now that you are going to the academy, when can we go back? If we go back later, I can't help but want to participate in the war to destroy Linyi. This is a war to destroy a country. Now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, there are enemies all around, especially the Turks. The Tang Dynasty is surrounded by dangers.

This time, the king was able to destroy the Linyi Kingdom, which was enough to shock the surrounding areas of the Tang Dynasty. After the Turks knew about this, they would definitely not dare to be so rampant. The merit of destroying a country is enough to be enshrined in the Taimiao and be passed down through the ages!"

In Xue Wanche's eyes, such an achievement of destroying a country, even if he was just a supporting role, would be recorded in history books and passed down through the ages. It would have been fine if he had not caught up with it, but now that he had, and he was close to Li Yuanji, he had some ideas in his mind.

This is indeed the case in the early Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is not that strong now, and there are powerful enemies all around. If it were the late Zhenguan period, would it be possible to destroy a country? Wouldn't that thing just need hands?

Wei Ting listened to these people, looked at Xue Wanche again, then thought about it and could only sigh. Not to mention Xue Wanche, he himself wanted to participate. As long as he could get a little bit of credit for destroying a country, it would be a great achievement. Under the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, the credit for destroying a country would be too great.

On the other side, on the ship sailing on the sea, Cheng Yaojin and Changsun Wuji, who had escaped the disaster, both had extremely gloomy expressions.

"Changsun Wuji, what on earth have you done? You actually made the King of Qi want to kill us three times. It's happened three times! Five hundred Black Armored Soldiers, now none of them are alive. How can I face the King when I go back?"

Cheng Yaojin stared at Changsun Wuji with hostility. He was not a stupid man. Now all the signs showed that Li Yuanji wanted to kill them. Although he didn't know why he was rescued twice and the initial ambush stopped inexplicably, this was enough to explain the problem.

You have to know that they are not just people from the Qin Palace now, especially Changsun Wuji, who is also the deputy envoy. If there was no hatred, how could Li Yuanji dare to kill them so blatantly.

Thinking of the ambush Li Yuanji encountered in Lingnan, Cheng Yaojin could not believe that Li Shimin would do such a stupid thing. The one with the problem was Changsun Wuji who was beside him, especially the meaningful words Li Shimin said before leaving, which still linger in his ears.

Changsun Wuji was silent for a moment before he spoke slowly in a hoarse voice.

"You must have guessed it in your mind. You are very smart, and the Qin Palace knows it very well. This is why the king sent you to come with me. What's the point of saying these things now? It has already happened.

Except for the first ambush, the King of Qi should have been unaware of the following two incidents. Otherwise, do you think we would be saved?
The matter has passed. I will take responsibility for the matter of the five hundred Black Armored Soldiers to the king. Next, we will go to Haikang and complete the task assigned by the king.

Zhijie, you should control your temper when the time comes. You know very well what kind of person the King of Qi is. As long as the King of Qi catches hold of evidence, he will really take action, and it will also affect the purpose of our visit.

Now all we have to do is to endure, and only by enduring, will we settle accounts when the king ascends the throne in the future."

Changsun Wuji was also extremely angry in his heart, but despite his anger, he also remained rational. Now in Lingnan, they had a heavy responsibility on their shoulders, and all they could do was endure.

The convenience and security that this identity can bring them now are very limited. If they don't endure it, they may never be able to leave Lingnan.

Even at this moment, Changsun Wuji had no regrets in his heart. He only hated Feng Xuan. Why didn't Feng Xuan send more people? Why couldn't he kill Li Yuanji? Otherwise, Li Shimin might have already ascended to the throne by now.

Cheng Yaojin stared at Changsun Wuji, and finally turned his head away helplessly. He really didn't expect that Changsun Wuji would do such a thing, and he didn't expect that Li Shimin didn't tell them about this and even let Changsun Wuji come to Lingnan.

Thinking about this journey and the five hundred Black Armored Soldiers who died, Cheng Yaojin's heart was bleeding.

Cheng Yaojin simply stopped thinking about it, because the more he thought about it, the more upset he became. He went straight back to his room and lay on the bed, but no matter what, he couldn't close his eyes.

Cheng Yaojin was very upset at this moment.

(End of this chapter)