Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

It was Li Anyan's first time in charge of house raids, and she showed extreme professionalism and dedication. It really made people wonder if they were collectively possessed by corrupt officials. Otherwise, how could they ransack the house so cleanly, even scraping off three feet of land?

More than one thief sneaked in after they ransacked the house, trying to get some things they missed and exchanged them for a few pennies to spend, but they went in happily, and came out angrily, cursing: "These gangsters are too hateful, Don't even leave us a penny!"

... After a lot of hard work, Li Anyan began to report the results to Li Jiancheng.

"Your Majesty, the number has been preliminarily calculated!"

Li Jiancheng asked with interest: "How much money did you get?"

Li Anyan said, "A lot, a lot! That number almost gave me a heart attack!"

Li Jiancheng became more interested and said, "Tell me about it, I'm curious how much money was copied, and it was able to scare the majestic General Li into a heart attack."

Li Anyan took out the account book, cleared her throat, and continued to read: "The deposits, real estate, shares, gold and silver treasures, literature, calligraphy and paintings we copied from the lonely family are too numerous to count. After many evaluations, It was finally determined that the seized wealth was around 16 million.”

Li Jiancheng's eyelids twitched wildly and said, "There are so many?"

It's no wonder that the family's powerful family can control the wind and rain in the Tang Dynasty, and even manipulate the emperor as a puppet. With such appalling wealth and appalling power in their hands, who can rule him?

It's not bad if you don't get played to death by him!The scariest thing is that Lonely Mou is not so greedy...

The bigger head is in the back.

Li Anyan continued: "Chen Shuda has 900 million guan, and Murong Xiu has 350 million guan!"

Li Jiancheng frowned: "Why are Murong Xiu writing so many?"

Li Anyan smiled and said: "Your Majesty does not know that Murong Xiuzhuan is very good at running the family business. When Murong Fuyun was defeated, he took in tens of thousands of remnants of Luo Tuyuhun, and used the dense pastures of Hehuang and Dafeichuan to graze There are as many as 23 horses..."

Well, with 23 horses, he is even richer than Xue Yantuo, a khanate.

Of course, what Li Jiancheng didn't know was that this was still Li Shimin's horse reserve racecourse. According to the plan, once Cheng Zhijie led the Thai and Western coalition forces to break through Anxi, they would replenish their horses there, and then march eastward and sweep through Guanzhong.

"Liu Jingyuan is 470 million coins."

"Zhang Gongjin 370 million guan!"

"Liu Chen has 100 pens!"

"Li Daozong 210 million crowns..."

This list is very long, and Li Anyan read it for an hour, until his mouth was dry, and then he added up the proceeds from this raid to 36! "

Li Jiancheng said dumbfounded: "36? Are you sure? Are these guys so rich?"

According to Li Jiancheng's reform plan, he needs to spend 56 guan, and the income from this raid can almost meet the consumption of three years.

In fact, this is enough.

Chapter 40 Look at my [-]-meter-long sword

Chapter 40 Look at my [-]-meter-long sword

"Your Majesty, what should I do next?"

Although Li Jiancheng's proceeds from ransacking his home could not meet his five-year plan's expenditures, after careful calculation, if taxes and gold mine income were included, the gap was actually not that big.Wei Zheng was very satisfied when he saw that these aristocratic officials, just the Beijing officials of the imperial court Chang'an, could obtain the financial income of the imperial court for more than ten years.

After being temporarily excited, he immediately calmed down and began to ask the most urgent questions.

After thinking for a while, Li Jiancheng replied: "Jianmen Pass is safe for the time being, but Lianghuai and Monan are in danger."

After Li Shimin took Jiangnan, he divided his troops into three groups, and the West Road cooperated with Hou Mo and Chen Xu to sweep Bashu.

Attack Yingzhou (now Zhongxiang, Hubei) in the middle.

The situation of the Central Route Army has gradually become clear. They are going to attack the Han River along Yingzhou and attack Xiangfan instead.Once Li Shimin's Central Route Army acquires Xiangfan, attacks the Nanyang Basin, and then takes Luoyang, it can trap Li Jiancheng in Guanzhong.

The direction of the East Route Army is mainly concentrated in Huaixi, in order to map the two Huaihe Rivers.Now the Tang army is seriously insufficient in the direction of Lianghuai and Xiangyang.

Li Jiancheng murmured, "I'm going to drive Li Shimin to the south of the Yangtze River!"

Wei Zheng frowned and said, "Your Majesty, where is Monan? Just leave it alone for now?"

Li Jiancheng pondered and said: "This war will not end like this. Only one of him and I can have the last laugh... But this disastrous defeat also reminded me that Li Shimin's strength is extremely powerful, so he rashly lost to them in a decisive battle." More wins and less, I will not make such a mistake again. I plan to use ten years to deepen military reform, eliminate Li Shimin's allies through diplomatic and military means, isolate them, weaken them, and fight them decisively until the time is right. Fight, I will not give him another chance to stand up!"

Fang Xuanling sighed: "Ten years is too long, when the time comes, the world may... fight a protracted war, and it may be in their hands!"

Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling suspiciously and asked, "Why?"

"Compared to them!" Fang Xuanling said with a wry smile, "Actually, we still have a weakness, a fatal weakness!"

"What weakness?"

As soon as these words were said, Chen Ying's voice came from outside the door: "population!"

Everyone looked towards Chen Ying.

Chen Ying said without hesitation: "The total population of our Tang Dynasty is only 540 million households. Now, with the loss of Lingnan and Jiangnan, the population has dropped sharply, less than 400 million! However, the force they dispatched is 400 million. more than!"

Manpower is now an unsolvable problem for Datang, and the total population is so large.Productivity is also very low. Pulling all the young and strong into the army will inevitably weaken the proportion of workshops and agricultural population, resulting in a serious shortage of material production.

Just like during World War II, Germany's economic, industrial, and military strength were obviously stronger than those of the Soviet Union. However, in the end, Germany was exhausted by relying on its population.Because the Soviet Union had a population of more than 8000 million at that time, while Germany only had a population of more than 6000 million.During the entire World War II, Germany suffered a total of 4805 million casualties, more than 300 million people were captured, and the total number was close to 800 million. Germany eventually collapsed.In World War II, 680 million Soviet soldiers died due to the war (combat casualties totaled 13 million), and a total of 8606 million people were killed after being captured, plus civilian sacrifices, and a total of 700 million people died nationwide. people.

If Germany had 8000 million people like the Soviet Union, World War II would probably be rewritten.Of course, this is just a hypothesis.

Now it is almost the same as during World War II. Datang has the most cutting-edge technology and the most tax-efficient army of this era, but population is its Achilles' heel.

Just like the Jiangzhou battle that just broke out, more than [-] troops of the Tang Dynasty suffered casualties, and almost the entire army was wiped out.Although it is said that Li Shimin won the victory, the Fusang Tang army killed more than [-] people and hundreds of thousands of casualties. In addition to the lack of medicines and rampant malaria, Li Shimin has not had a large-scale war for three months after this battle, because He's also a little weak on the backlift.

"If our Tang Dynasty expands its army like crazy!" Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng and said solemnly, "It will deal a fatal blow to the economy, and we will be even weaker. It will be easier for Li Shimin to fight!"

Li Jiancheng frowned and said, "Then what do you mean, let's fight now? We have too few troops, and there is no chance of winning in a fight!"

Chen Ying said with a smile: "The number of people is not enough, technology will make up!"

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In front of Jianmen Pass, countless Li Shimin's coalition forces surrounded the pass city, helpless.The bloody attack in the past few days has caused the coalition forces to lose tens of thousands of horses, but the Jianmen Pass is still unbreakable.

Hou Mo and Chen Xu looked at Guancheng, which had turned blue and purple, and heaved a long sigh.

Suddenly, an inexplicable panic flashed between his brows.

There was no reason for this panic, Hou Mo Chen Xu knew in his heart that this was a sign of danger.

He couldn't figure out what was going on.

He subconsciously looked at Guancheng, and then looked back at the densely packed army on Chidao, and suddenly realized.