Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 66 Strengthening Strength, Development Planning

"But...Erlang...you are going to start a family in the future, how will you be able to start a family and start a business with the burden of my mother?"

The old mother of the Chen family thinks more long-term. Although life is much better, the Chen family's foundation is too weak, so they still try their best to make ends meet.

In the past, with Chen Dalang's military salary, the mother and son lived a good life. They just built a new house at home and planned to use it for their two sons to start a family.

Today, Chen Dalang died young, leaving only Chen Erlang alone. He not only has to support his mother, undertake the tasks shared by the two brothers in the past, but also considers his own future life, prepares to marry and have children, and pass on blood.

Calculated in this way, the burden of this family is completely on Erlang's body. If he wants to start a family and start a business, he may have to suffer for a long time.

"Mother of the Chen family, don't worry!"

But the military officer said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness the King of Shu won a lot of money for Da Lang, and your future life will be assured!"

He immediately took out the pension list, made records on it, and then ordered the people behind him to bring the cash box.

"This is Da Lang's pension fee, a total of [-] pennies. You have to collect it. In the future, you will retire, and Er Lang will have money to marry a wife and have children, all rely on this pension!"

"What? Fifty strings?"

The mother of the Chen family was taken aback for a moment, then said in a daze: "You didn't lie to my old lady, did you?"

The military officer shook his head: "Of course not! This is what our Highness fought for Da Lang. Normally, ordinary soldiers died in battle and only received a ten-peat pension, but His Highness argued hard in the court, saying that this time the soldiers saved Chang'an. Outstanding meritorious service, should send out more."

"So, the imperial court paid three times the amount of compensation to our soldiers in Shu, a total of [-] guan!"

The old mother of the Chen family felt warm in her heart. The King of Shu really cared about the people. It was great that these dead and wounded soldiers could receive three times the pension.

Thinking again, Chen Dalang was almost framed to death by the gentry before, but it was the King of Shu who saved them and gave Chen Dalang a good way out, and then saved their family. The sadness of the old mother of the Chen family has turned into gratitude to Li Ke .

"His Royal Highness the King of Shu is really benevolent! My Dalang is worth his life for His Royal Highness..."

Although a little helpless, it is the best ending to be able to get more pensions if a person cannot be resurrected after death.

"Eh? No!"

At this time, Chen Erlang asked suspiciously: "Three times, it's only thirty guan! But you just said that our family has [-] guan pension, why is that?"

The military officer pursed his lips, sighed and said, "Alas! His Royal Highness King of Shu squeezed this out of the finances of Shu and his own pocket. He said that these soldiers worked hard for him, and he should take good care of their relatives, so he Twenty extra strings!"

"It's not easy for the King of Shu! He was reprimanded by the gentry officials in the court, and it's hard for him to enjoy the rewards for his achievements! Later, the people petitioned, and the Holy Majesty rewarded him!"

When the mother and son of the Chen family heard that the King of Shu had given money to subsidize the pension, they were deeply moved, and they all secretly thought that the King of Shu was really a good man who cared about the people.

At this time, I was even more curious to hear that someone had trouble with the King of Shu.

"How can someone go against such a good person?"

Chen Erlang asked.

The military officer shook his head and said: "Isn't it because the King of Shu helped us Kuhaha to deal with those gentry? How can they not bear grudges against the King of Shu?"

After hearing this, the mother and son of the Chen family realized that the king of Shu stood up for the poor and led them to make trouble among the gentry.

In this critical situation, he never forgets to take care of the people. Who can say anything bad about such a person?

One after another, people who died in battle like Mr. Chen's family received heavy pensions, and all the family members were moved in their hearts.For a time, in the whole of Shu, people could be heard boasting that the King of Shu was benevolent, generous, and considerate of the people.

Everyone was more motivated, scrambling to follow the King of Shu into production, trying their best to help Shu restore people's livelihood and promote the economy.

Li Ke is not idle either. He has set up textile factories in various places and is preparing to export farms to various places.

But in Shu, these factories have already matured and continue to increase income for the people of Shu.

And now, he turned his attention to traffic again.

If you want to get rich, build roads first. This is the motto that Li Ke keeps in mind, so as soon as he has some conditions, he plans to start laying out road construction.

There are many mountains in the Shu region, and it is not easy to build roads. Heavy equipment is required to open mountains and crack rocks.

But fortunately, Li Ke's system has the latest technology. He uses these technologies to assign personnel to survey the terrain, and select suitable terrain that does not need to dig mountains and gravel to open up roads.

Then, he found new steel-making and cement-making technologies from the system. With these technologies, he could complete the construction of some basic roads.

Road construction work was in full swing throughout Sichuan, but Li Ke was not satisfied with this. He set his sights on Tianshan Pass, the Xiangxiong Kingdom in the Western Regions.

The so-called Zhang Zhung Kingdom refers to the Afghanistan region of later generations, where the traffic is important.

The mountain pass of that day was located in a fortress, and to the south was Tianzhu, which was later known as India.And all the way to the west is the Persian Empire.

Of course, the road has to be taken step by step. This long-term plan is just a plan. He first set his goal on Dajianlu, which is an important military town in Tubo, with a large amount of coal and iron ore.

This Dajian furnace has a well-known name throughout the country in later generations, that is, Kangding.

This place is an important military location, located between Sichuan and the Tubo Kingdom, and is still under the control of Tubo.

Once you have mastered this place, and then develop westward, you will have a transit base.

So Li Ke has made arrangements to build the road to Dajianlu first.

At the same time, Li Ke did not want to relax in the agricultural and textile industry. Wind power, water conservancy textile machines, and agricultural machinery have been put into production in Shu, but they have not yet been built in other parts of the country.

Li Ke also arranged for people to build these equipments everywhere, fulfilling his promise to the Shu King Party, and creating conditions for the development of the Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Shu.

In the future, these devices will become the basis for him to change the entire Datang.

After completing these production deployments, Li Ke finally turned his attention to the most important place - the military.

All production depends on strong military strength. This is the truth Li Ke recognizes, so Li Ke feels that it is necessary to further strengthen his military strength.

He started expanding his army.

The previous cavalry unit was severely damaged in the First Battle of Weishui, and has been quickly replenished, returning to the state of [-] cavalry units.

But now, Li Ke has announced that he will once again expand the army by 30.

Before that, he had an army of 20, including [-] infantry, [-] long-distance soldiers with bows and crossbows, and [-] cavalry.

This time he expanded the army again, and he greatly increased the lineup of various arms, increasing the infantry to 20, the cavalry to 15, and the bow and crossbow long-distance soldiers to 12.

In addition, [-] special arms were recruited, including special operations, scouts, special forces killers, and intelligence troops.

Adding all these arms together, Li Ke's military strength has reached 50.

(End of this chapter)