Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 672

In winter during this period, the northern land must be covered with heavy snow. However, now few people freeze to death on a large scale, or the situation of livestock appears. Cities like Dingxiang, Ulan, Tai'an, and Shangqi all have special buildings for It is a greenhouse for cattle and sheep to spend the winter, and there is enough green material in stock. They even directly use soybeans, oats, broomcorns, sorghum, these staple foods that people ate, to feed livestock. It feels like the Tang people are extravagant and crazy.

After Suiye City was built under Changsun Chong's hands, it basically has the same model as Dingxiang. Therefore, when winter comes, people from many surrounding places will come here to spend the winter here, because every house here, Everything must be warm, including the barn.All food must be palatable, including the fodder for cattle, sheep and livestock.

Xue Li and Xi Junmai are almost bored to death now. With their martial arts and the intensity of the soldiers' routine training, they can't do much training at all. Therefore, they can only care about the barbarians in the Western Regions stealing livestock and food. little things.

"These guys are really worthless. They steal food from cattle, horses and livestock every day." Looking at the lack of a pile of soybeans and millet outside the greenhouse for feeding livestock, Xi Junmai exhaled whitely.

They are not here to catch thieves who steal soybeans and millet to eat. They are here to make up for the gap after the fodder was stolen. Hundreds of thousands of troops, plus millions of local people, plus hundreds of thousands of Persian laborers, In more than two years, more than 2000 million mu of fertile fields have been cultivated here. Under the guidance of Sun Erli, the second-in-command of the Ministry of Agriculture, they planted them. Although they only planted one season each year, they couldn't finish the food they produced.

Of course, even if they can't finish it, they can't sell it to neighboring countries without the emperor's permission. This will break the balance of power of those neighboring countries and cause various changes in the pattern in the west.

It is good to maintain the current situation. Tang Jun does not restrict the entry of Hu people from the Western Regions. It is just that after they enter the country, without household registration, they cannot be treated like the people of the Tang Dynasty. The type of work, the salary of a small half of the people in Datang with household registration, barely enough for them to make ends meet.

If you want to enter the household and have no money, then please learn Chinese desperately. The whole family should learn Chinese. As long as your Chinese level passes the examination by the examiners of the Immigration Department, then, congratulations, you will become well-off overnight.

Therefore, in winter, on the contrary, when border towns like Suiye City gather the largest population, raising cattle and sheep in those warm sheds here will get the safest guarantee. They only need to pay a certain amount to the Datang official. The number of cattle and sheep can be used to pay for foster care.

Then, when they are idle and bored, they will learn Chinese like everyone who wants to join the Datang household registration.

The scale of Suiye City is slightly larger than that of Dingxiang City, because there are a lot of troops stationed here. Of course, there are not so many taller buildings in Dingxiang City. Changsun Chong has opened Chinese There will be storytellers in training classes, including teahouses, who will tell stories to guests in Chinese continuously. On the stages of hotels and theaters, there will also be shows with Chinese cultural background every day. You know, there are many troops here, so those who accompany the army There are also many actors in the art troupe.

These people will instill Chinese culture in all aspects from the distant myths and stories, the origin of human beings, to the current living habits, and the code of conduct for the people gathered in these surrounding areas. After two years, there have been many achievements. Through immigration More and more families are taking the Chinese language test by the examiner of the Ministry of Education, which has also caused the rulers of the surrounding countries to become more and more panicked.

Because, immigration in this period does not require mutual consent, only Datang unilateral approval is enough.

It's a pity that among these neighboring countries, even the largest Persia can only turn a blind eye to this matter, let alone the kingdoms of Ozgu, Pilan, and Hebo.

"It's nothing to be contemptuous of. A few years ago, the people of the Tang Dynasty couldn't eat these fine ingredients for cattle and horses. For us at that time, these things were also important supplies for winter survival." Xue Xue With one hand and one bag, Li pulled the grain from the car to supplement the livestock feed in the greenhouse and threw it out of the car.In fact, at his level, he definitely wouldn't be reduced to delivering feed to livestock, but he just thought that throwing grain sacks for fun would be a way to train his strength. After all, a big bag of grain weighs dozens of catties!

"Hey, I thought I came to the west to fight a few big battles, but I didn't expect that every day I would be free to get food and feed it to the thief." Xi Junmai said very depressed.

After winter, it was time to prepare for the strategy. However, this year was the same as last year. The imperial court did not give any battle plan. It was still reclamation, training, and garrisoning.He has been doing these things here for more than two years. If he continues to do this, he worries that he will become a farmer.

"These coarse grains that we are not rare to eat now can help us attract more barbarians from the Western Regions to learn our culture, and let those poor people who steal food feel the tolerance of our Tang army. Its value is already What's more, those barbarians in the Western Regions exchanged their cattle and sheep for our green materials, coarse grains, and living rights in greenhouses. We have already made a lot of money. Don't tell me that you don't know about your body. How much is a cashmere coat worth? The cashmere is all taken from the sheep they paid for, and don't you think it's the best situation for us to eat mutton buns every day and let them eat the coarse grains we grow? "

Speaking of this, even militants like Mr. Xi couldn't help but nodded. Due to the lack of manpower, they couldn't do intensive farming at all. They planted more than 2000 million mu of land into wheat, so it was easier Yes, millet, oats, sorghum and other crops became the crops they planted on a large scale, and those who helped them reclaim these lands and sow these crops were actually those Hu people in the Western Regions who had not yet obtained household registration.

That is to say, Datang uses these barbarians in the Western Regions to reclaim and cultivate the fields to earn more money or cattle and sheep in the hands of the barbarians in the Western Regions. will abandon them.

Therefore, Anxi Dadu Hufu, which has introduced the textile technology of Dingxiang City, should not be too rich. In more than two years, it not only built Suiye City and Fanshi City with its own funds, but also planned to build Talas into a frontier city.

It's no wonder that the two top generals will become talkative, because the days without war are indeed too boring for them, but there is no way, their methods are really clever, and they can complete the set goals without any effort Now, they can only slowly accept Changsun Chong's series of expansion plans through cultural communication and political means, so when they suddenly heard the rallying horn from the barracks, they were a little surprised.

"What's the situation? Could it be that there are still people who dare to fight? Hahaha, just right, Grandpa's sword is already hungry and thirsty."

Xi Junmai, who was a little dazed for a moment, came to his senses, laughed and ran to the barracks next to the livestock shed, regardless of the grain and grass that had been piled outside the greenhouse and hadn't been moved into the warehouse. He had already rushed out before. Anyway, these millet soybeans are not worth much, so if anyone wants to steal them, just steal them!They don't eat it secretly, maybe Tang Jun has to work hard to pull it out and give it to them to eat!Go to the barracks to see the situation first, and if it is an expedition, I have to grab the position of the vanguard officer. After all, there are so many garrisons here, and there are so many generals, who knows who the position of the vanguard officer will be.

However, the situation in the barracks does not look like a war is about to start, because there is no tense atmosphere. At this time, in the meeting hall, several generals are discussing things around Chang Sun Chong, and this meeting , and did not restrict the middle and low-level generals to attend. Many generals who were originally in the barracks had already walked out of the barracks shaking their heads.

However, Xi Junmai and Xue Li, who were preoccupied with fighting, didn't care to look at other people's expressions or feel the atmosphere of the barracks. They just opened the sheepskin curtain and heard the elder Sun Chong inside say, "Who wants to do this operation?" Past?"

When Xi Junmai and Xue Li heard the words, they were immediately overjoyed, and thought to themselves, fortunately, they ran fast, otherwise, it would have started to catch up, and if it was a little bit late, the soup would not be fished.

"The end will be willing to go."

"The end will be willing to go."

After begging for orders, Xi Junmai and Xue Li realized that something was wrong, because there were many generals in the entire conference hall, but only the two of them begged for orders.

"Okay, it's just the two of you, time is of the essence. You immediately count the supplies and lead the headquarters to set off. If it is too late, those refugees will starve to death and freeze to death on a large scale."

"What, count the supplies? Only bring the headquarters? Who are you going to fight!" The somewhat confused two looked up at Chang Sun Chong and the generals who were holding back their laughter.

Among them, Feng Zhidai said with a smile, "I didn't ask you to fight anyone, but after the big cannibals entered the winter, they expanded outwards again. However, this time they didn't fight Persia, but the Tang Dynasty and Byzantium. There are some small kingdoms between the empires, these kingdoms have been defeated one after another, and the people under their rule are fleeing in the direction of our Tang Dynasty, Changsun Changshi means, let us organize troops to take them in from the border."

"What? It's not a war?" At this moment, Xi Junmai and Xue Li instantly understood why they were the only two people who had just returned from the outside to take over in the conference hall.

Changsun Chong took over the words and said, "As far as the number of garrisons in our Anxi Metropolitan Guard is concerned, that guy with his head in the water dares to attack us? The purpose of your trip is to bring enough clothes and food to keep out the cold. The people of those small kingdoms who escaped from the wars were taken to the territory of our Tang Dynasty and escorted to the resettlement site outside Talas City."

"No, then what, the big cannibals are so rampant, why don't we take action to deal with them? If they continue to expand, they will almost border on my Tang Dynasty." Xi Junmai said very puzzled.

Chang Sun Chong replied, "It's not the right time yet. It is in our interest for them to fight the Persians, or these vassal states of the Byzantine Empire. Think about it, the people of these kingdoms affected by the war will not go The Byzantine Empire ran away, but chose to take refuge in our Tang Dynasty, what is the reason?"

"Of course it's because my Tang Dynasty is rich and powerful!" Xi Junmai replied without thinking too much.

Changsun Chong nodded and said, "Yes, it's because my Tang Dynasty is rich and powerful, and at the same time, it's also because my Tang Dynasty doesn't start wars easily, it's the most peaceful and stable country in the world, and it's the country they yearn for in their hearts. "

Xi Junmai said, "Then, shall we sit and wait for them to call our door?"

Changsun Chong shook his head and said, "Of course not, the war will only make the local people yearn for a country like my Tang Dynasty even more, and achieve the first basic condition for our expansion."

After all, Xi Junmai was born as a knight-errant. He didn't read much and couldn't understand too many political things. He shook his hands and said, "Just tell me how many basic conditions we still have to complete!"

Changsun Chong thought for a moment, then replied, "At least, after the head-on confrontation between Dashi and Byzantium begins, the current small countries are just some barriers for Byzantium, and they can't play any decisive role. It is not sure to win the two great empires of Dashi and Byzantium, and needs to wait for the opportunity.

In addition, did you forget that we do not have a military order from Chang'an, so all our generals here are only responsible for commanding the garrison, but have no power to start wars. "

Ok!Chang Sun Chong's explanation was very powerful. Xi Junmai and Xue Li had no choice but to accept the drudgery with their heads down. Of course, Chang Sun Chong also sent a report to Chang'an immediately about the situation here. However, Li Shimin At the earliest, it will be at the end of the first month to receive his report.

(End of this chapter)