Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 719

It's already the eighth day of July, the hottest time of the year.

After Shao Shude had a hearty breakfast, he was ready to go out.

Jiang Shi and Lu Shi went up together to change his clothes.

The little girl's expression has regained some of the former agility.After the child was taken away, all Jiang's scarlet fantasies were shattered.It seems to have matured overnight, and I feel that the unrealistic fantasy in the past is too ridiculous.Fortunately, her sister-in-law Lu Shi was always by her side, and she also told her about the people of the Jiang clan living in Luoyang safely after being pardoned. The girl slowly recovered, and as time went by, her mood gradually recovered.

"May your majesty come back victorious." Before leaving the door, Lu and Jiang congratulated together.

"There are only three or two heroes who can stop me." Shao Shude laughed loudly, left Jinxianguan, and rode his horse towards Mengzhou.

The water has completely receded.The Heyang shogunate gathered a group of masters and began to renovate Zhongyu City.

Li Tangbin, the commander of the Luoyang camp, galloped to Mengzhou, waiting for Shao Shude's summons.

"This time I want to go north, and the war in the eastern capital will be in your hands." Shao Shude said: "According to your own strategy, I will not give you any goals, even if you maintain the front line, it is okay."

"With the words of the commander-in-chief, the general will know what to do." Li Tangbin replied calmly.

As a general, he is most afraid of the remote control coach who will command indiscriminately and set the target blindly, but he may not know the actual situation on the front line, and cannot keenly grasp the changes in fighter opportunities, which will often have the opposite effect.

King Xia can trust his own ability and hand over an army of hundreds of thousands to him, Li Tangbin is very relieved.

"Don't care about other people's opinions, even if Ruzhou is temporarily let go, it is acceptable." Shao Shude urged again.

"I will understand at the end."

After the meeting, Shao Shude and Li Tangbin inspected more than ten thousand Ding Zhuang from Ganzhou tribe who had just arrived in Mengzhou.

"The more than [-] tents of Taomin Qiangzhong and Qingtang Tubo have arrived in Luoyang. How did you arrange them?" Shao Shude asked looking at the Uighur, Dangxiang, Tubo, and Tatar herdsmen who were screaming under the high platform.

"Gaoshuai Dongdu asked them to clean up the ruins and build houses in the Luoyang area." Li Tangbin replied.

These more than 2 accounts are currently identified as common people, and they are temporarily under the management of Dongdu Town.The Yiluo Basin is not rich in household registration, and there are many wastelands, which have almost become the pastures of these herdsmen.It's a pity that the local area lacks high-quality pasture grass, otherwise, there would be no problem at all to feed these people.

The more nutritious and high-yielding grass is, the less it can compete with weeds, so this is the meaning of agriculture.Pastures such as Dawan alfalfa and donkey hi beans have to be planted by farmers in the field like millet and wheat, otherwise they really can't play with weeds.

"I'll leave all these people to you." Shao Shude said, "Guangchengze used to be a large ranch, and Jiacheng also had a small ranch. Let the [-]-plus tents go to Ruzhou. How to organize them is up to you. , Pick out those who have horses, count the number of people, and enter Chen Xu in batches to harass. The old method is to tell them to use their military exploits to obtain land. The wasteland in Luoru and Ruzhou is countless, let them trade their lives for it."

"Of order." Li Tangbin replied.

Under the high platform, someone is already handing out greetings to the new Ganzhou herdsmen: each with a piece of silk.

The Tibetans are poor, knowing that silk can be used to buy things, such as ironware, pottery and even wooden furniture, which are the most scarce on the grasslands, they are definitely reluctant to wear them by themselves.

Shao Shude got off the high platform, surrounded by his own soldiers, rode his horse in front of the barbarian formation, and asked, "Do you know me?"

Of course the Fans don't know each other, but how could there be no support for such a scene?

Immediately someone said loudly: "This is the Supreme Khan of Lord Dapo Umm."

The lord of Um is Li Renmei, the Uyghur Yingyi Khan, who is well-known in Ganzhou and established the Uyghur Khanate, which once claimed to have [-] cavalry.His failure had a huge spiritual impact on the shepherds of all ethnic groups in Ganzhou, and everyone was afraid from the bottom of their hearts for the king of Lingwu County in the Tang Dynasty who defeated him-a cold knowledge, the title of Supreme Khan, at the beginning It was given by the Ganzhou tribe.

"Greetings to the Supreme Khan." The herdsmen fell to their knees in a black mass, unable to see the end at a glance.

Some teenagers were ignorant and ignorant of the majesty of the Supreme Khan, and were quickly pulled to the ground by their family members, grabbing the ground with their heads, and did not dare to say much.

"The Han people in the Central Plains are my people, and the grassland shepherds are also my people." Shao Shude waved his horsewhip and said loudly: "Among you, there are nobles, slaves, monks, and merchants. With me, there is no distinction between high and low, and those who have merit will be rewarded."

"Through the journey, you have all seen the counties of Yuan, Wangwu, and Heqing. How many former slaves obtained land because of their meritorious service? Lived a dignified life?"

"The family's cattle and sheep are fat and strong, the barley grains are piled up in the barn, and the crisp tea is full."

"Now, you also have this opportunity, and the credit lies in the south."

When Shao Shude said something, someone galloped back and forth immediately, translated it into various languages, and passed it on.

Not surprisingly, it caused quite a commotion.I passed through many counties along the way. When passing through the three counties of Yuan, Wangwu, and Heqing, I did see a lot of Tubo people, Qiang people, Uighurs, Gamo people, and Dangxiang people who settled down to farm and herd. The style of Putou, but the local accent is not wrong, and many women still braid their hair and wear pearls, which are the traces left over from the rule of the Tubo Dynasty in the Helong area.

"Jiangxiong called Zan, and her husband called Pu. Since it was Zanpu's order, we should follow it."

"Qing Tianzi is the reincarnation of the king of medicine, guiding us to be rich and honored, but if we have orders, we will follow them."

"Khan's military power, who can stop it? We will take our horses and bows and knives, behead the enemy for Supreme Khan, and present the most beautiful and noble women of the enemy to the city of Golden Immortal Kedun."

The smile on Shao Shude's face suddenly froze.

Jinxian Temple, Ketun City?What the hell?Even the Tibetans know about it?

But filial piety is commendable, and the Fan people are so down-to-earth.After conquering the grassland and defeating the enemy's tribe, the wives, concubines and daughters of the other chieftains are the slaves of the victors.Alas, the folks in Helong are too simple, this is good, this is good!

"Let's go, don't ruin my reputation!" Supreme Khan waved his hand and said.

Li Tangbin has been watching silently.

King Xia's power is not limited to the yamen army with more than 20 horsemen.In fact, many tribes in Helong and Lingxia are also one of his sources of strength.

Wasn't the so-called bodyguard who had been running around with him all this time a private part?

It's been a long time since he heard the term "partition", and it almost reminded him of the past events of the Northern and Southern Dynasties recorded in the history books.

Private parts, do not listen to the emperor, only loyal to the patriarch of the clan.Even if some people want to carry out a palace coup, it may be difficult.The young and strong of the private tribe in Saibei took turns to serve as guards, making it more difficult for insiders to conspire and assassinate.

In the mutinies in various feudal towns, in many cases, only a small number of people actually participated.Most of the sergeants stood on the sidelines, did not join any side, and helped whoever won.Many generals and military envoys often died in military riots involving dozens or hundreds of people. If people from different systems and different sources restrained and stopped them at this time, it might have calmed down.

King Xia is cautious, he left many layers of protection for himself.

In fact, that's fine too, as warriors like me just need to make contributions, and we don't have to worry about any changes in the rear.

Li Tangbin was thinking about the two internal systems of Xia Jun, while Shao Shude was thinking about going to the grassland for a while.

I have been away from Guanbei for several years, and my relationship with the grassland is a little rusty, so this will not work!
The grassland ministries are currently high-quality assets that play a positive role, but if they are not well managed, they may become negative assets one day.

I just took advantage of this opportunity to go around and consolidate my authority so as not to cause trouble.

Li Tangbin left that night.

Before leaving, Shao Shude privately asked him to help take care of the son, carefully observe the son's performance, and secretly report to him.

Li Tangbin's back is full of fluid, this is not a good job!

For the next few days, Shao Shude wandered around Meng and Huai, inspecting the farmland with Song Le.

"We harvested 37 dendrobium of millet and wheat in the summer, and it is estimated that there will be more than [-] dendrobiums in the autumn harvest." Song Le was refreshed when he talked about this.

Qianning only collected about 40 dendrobium in the whole of the second year, but this year it directly doubled, and the results are indeed gratifying.

"Your Majesty is going to Yinshan, and you must keep Li Keyong safe." Song Le said with a smile: "Heyang will increase the fields sown in autumn this year, and go to the river in winter to dig hard, and work harder in spring sowing next year. The annual harvest will be 150. There is absolutely no problem with Wanhu grain and beans."

What is a friend of time, Heyang is it.

Shao Shude knows that next year's harvest of 150 million dendrobium grains and beans is definitely not the end, but the starting point.

Heyang is full of wilderness, the quality of the land is good, and because of the war, it has been desolate for many years, and it is in a de facto fallow state, so too much fertility has accumulated in the soil.What needs to be done now is to convert these land resources into food and pasture step by step. Every six months, Heyang's strength will increase significantly.

"Hey, I have to put down my face again and say good things to my brother-in-law." Shao Shude said with a bitter face.

"The king is playing tricks again." Song Le laughed, shook his head, and said, "I know the situation in Henan is critical, and Li Keyong is the biggest variable, so there must be no trouble at this time."

"Am I being too greedy?" Shao Shude asked: "Youzhou can be used, and the place is very rich. There is no problem raising 7 to [-] soldiers. He also has three towns of Hedong, Zhaoyi, and Datong, so he can also raise [-] to [-] people. And this is still according to Zhu Quanzhong and I’s raising method, if Li Ke uses the routine of indulging in military discipline like that, I’m afraid we can raise more.”

In fact, it is conservative to say that Hedong can only support [-] to [-] soldiers.

Zhaoyi Town is located in the three prefectures of Xingming and Ci on the Great Plains of Hebei. It had a population of more than 100 million during the Tianbao period.Later, after repeated wars, such as the imperial court's crusade against Zhaoyi and Liu Zhen, and the long-term tug-of-war between Li Keyong and Meng Fangli, the population dropped sharply.By the time Li Keyong settled down, his household registration was less than 40, but after so many years of peace, the people who fled to other places have fled back one after another, and the agricultural conditions are so good that their strength should not be underestimated.

In history, it was repeatedly attacked by Zhu Quanzhong, beaten several times by Wang Rong, and experienced Li Cunxiao's rebellion, which caused great losses.But this time and space is basically in a state of peace.Xing Mingci's eighteen counties in the three prefectures are actually a very easy to ignore money and food base-it can't be transported to Shanxi, but it can raise troops in Shandong.

Li Keyong had a few banknotes in his pocket, no longer just a few coins like before.

"Your Majesty, you have to be so greedy when you are in a big fight." Song Le said, "Zhu Quanzhong can't afford to lose, but we can afford it. Both the north and south lines must be seized. This old man is here to wait for the good news."

"Okay!" Shao Shude clapped his fists and said, "Ke Yong wrote back and invited me to Yunzhou for a while, and I will go. In the battle in Henan, there are Li Tangbin, Gao Renhou, and Li Renjun in the army. The article depends on the master."

(End of this chapter)