Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

As tokens of love, you can give gold and silver ornaments, jade ornaments, even if it is a piece of clothing, Chen Ying will also think of it, but what Li Daozhen gave is a Mingguang armor.

Ever since, the misunderstanding arose.

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On March 25th of the second year of Wude, Chen Ying led more than [-] healthy soldiers of the Yueqi regiment, and also brought Xu Jingzong who was coaxed over to Lingzhou City.

At this time, Yang Ze, the governor of Lingzhou, was also promoted to the governor of Lingzhou because of his meritorious service in the battle of Lingzhou.Yang Ze has also been promoted to the Wensan official of Zhengyi doctor, and he can enter the ranks of third-rank officials (senior officials) at the next level.

Xu Jingzong, who officially entered the scene, observed Lingzhou City for three days, and immediately asked Chen Ying a fatal question.How to solve the supply problem of Dingyuan Army, Shengjie Army and Sujie Army.

The imperial court gave Chen Ying an establishment of more than 1 people in the twelve mansions, but Chen Ying actually had more than 2 men and horses in the five departments of the six mansions, which was nearly double the number.Of course, when the world is uncertain, shorting quotas is simply courting death, and overstaffing is the norm in this era, but how to solve the supply problem is the most important thing.

On the night of March 28th in the second year of Wude, Chen Ying summoned Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Liu Tong, Bi Xin, Liang Zan, Chen Jinyong, Zhang Huaiwei, Chen Huairen, Yu Guni, Du Shanguo, Xu Jingzong and other confidants to gather in Lingzhou Governor's Mansion. Focus on several core issues that determine the future development of the Dingyuan Army.

Chapter 1 Eighteen Towns of Lingwu

The government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty did not receive military pay. Families who were enlisted as government soldiers were generally exempted from corvee service. After retiring from the army, they could also get priority in receiving koufen land. If they died in battle, the koufen land would be inherited by their descendants and rent-free.The price is that the equipment of the government soldiers must be prepared by themselves, and the travel expenses to and from the service must be paid by themselves.

Of course, the emperor was not short of starving soldiers to death.Although Datang's soldiers did not have military pay, they were supplied with food, salt, and tea.Datang's treatment of the government soldiers is actually quite good. Although there is no military salary in name, in fact every government soldier can save a certain amount of food and salt from the army to subsidize their families.

Taking the Dingyuan Army as an example, the Dingbian Army is a frontier army system. Each soldier eats six liters of rice (about six catties) a day, which is about 22 stones a year, and three liters of salt per month, which is three buckets and six liters a year. .Each year, one piece of silk, hemp, and woolen clothes (缣, which is today's silk, after the Han Dynasty, is mostly used as rewards, rewards, or currency) is about [-] yuan.In addition to these routine supplies, there are also supplies such as wine, meat, and tea to reward the army, which means that each soldier spends about eight guan a year.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is the consumption of horses. War horses not only eat grass, they will not grow fat if they eat grass alone, and they need additional food.According to the custom order, a war horse would consume three shi and three buckets of grain every month, and one horse would consume nearly forty shi of grain in a year.This is a very huge number. Chen Ying has more than 160 war horses, and they eat [-] million shi of grain a year, which is about three times the forage.

The war horse alone is enough to bankrupt Chen Yingchi.

Chen Ying thought for a while and decided not to reduce the number of personnel, but to increase the number. The Dingyuan Army still protected the six Zhechong mansions, but each Zhechong mansion added a ranger group.This ranger group serves as scouts, guards, and communications. The rangers were set up from the Shengjie Army.

In this way, the 36th Regiment of the Sixth Mansion of the Dingyuan Army, the first Zhechong Mansion was led by Zhechong Duwei Zhang Huaiwei, under the jurisdiction of five regiments of infantry and one regiment of rangers, with more than [-] people in the mansion, more than [-] horses and two horses. More than a hundred horses.

The second Zhechong Prefecture Zhechong Captain Liang Zan, under the jurisdiction of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth Regiment and the No.30 Second Regiment, a total of six regiments, more than [-] people in the department, war horses and draft horses A total of more than [-] horses.

The third fold is the capital of Chongchong, Lieutenant Liu Tong, the infantry No.11 regiment, No.12 regiment, No.13 regiment, No.14 regiment, No.15 regiment, and No.33 regiment under the jurisdiction of the infantry, a total of six regiments with more than [-] People, more than four hundred war horses, more than two hundred draft horses,

The fourth is Duan Zhigan, Duan Zhigan, the captain of Zhechong Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of No.16, No.17, No.18, No.19, No.20 regiments, 34 regiments, more than [-] people in the department, and a total of war horses and draft horses. More than six hundred horses.

第五折冲府折冲都尉张士贵，所部下辖No.20一、22、23、24、No.20五团、35团，所部一千八余人，战马和挽马共六百余匹。

第六折冲府折冲都尉罗士信，下辖No.20六、No.20七、28、29、No.30团、No.30六团。全团一千八百余人，战马三千四百余匹。

In this way, after Dingyuan's army reduced their number of horses, there were still more than [-] war horses and more than [-] draft horses left.

Chen Ying transferred six regiments of more than [-] troops from the Shengjie Army, and then dismissed some of the old and weak from the Shengjie Army.In fact, there are many Turkic people. They are not pure killing machines. The war-weariness that grows in their hearts is, in the final analysis, an emotion of boredom and spontaneous thoughts. .

Running the military needs to be in a good way, which is also to reduce expenditures. Chen Ying authorized some generals to return to the local area, or to participate in local affairs, or to return to the family to work in agriculture. They are not mandatory to be included in the auxiliary army, which is also to achieve the goal of embedding soldiers in the people. .These Turkic people voluntarily abandoned the army and joined the civilian population, and Chen Ying placed them near Lingwu, using their strengths to artificially plant alfalfa.

Chen Yingshun reduced these Turkic soldiers into six mansions of the Lingwu Army, with Yu Guni as the commander of the Lingwu army and horse army, and Chen Jinyong and Ashina Simo as the deputy commanders of the army and horses.

After disbanding, the Lingwu Army consisted of more than [-] people from the six prefectures, with a total of [-] horses.Chen Ying transported more than [-] war horses to Chang'an, and the others were rewarded to the whole army or sold.

As for the people rescued from the Turks, if they have relatives who can go to them, Chen Ying is willing to send travel expenses and money. If there is really nowhere to go, they will stay in Lingzhou and wait for resettlement.

As for the people stranded in Lingzhou, Chen Ying found that there were more than [-] people after compiling household registers.Among them, there are as many as [-] women, less than [-] men, and the rest are young children.Facing these women is actually a very troublesome problem, because less than [-]% of the more than [-] people have complete families, and most of them are lonely and helpless.

In fact, they were not really lonely and helpless. Chen Ying knew the real situation. The main reason was that these people were taken captive to Turkic, and some of them were forced to give birth to Turkic children. Even if they had a family, they would have no face to go back.

If these women are not dealt with properly, there may be big problems.Chen Ying looked at Xu Jingzong helplessly.

Xu Jingzong said: "This matter is simple, so let's be alone!"

A husband without a wife is called a widower, and a woman without a husband is called a widow.Take the widows and widows and unite them, and give them fields and houses to unite their families. This is called unity and independence.The so-called joint independence refers to the use of official media to carry out forced marriages between widowers and widows.This is the method that ancient times had to take for the breeding of population.

Chen Ying is actually very resistant to this kind of behavior in his heart. What he pursues is still free love and marriage.He tried to ask: "After the battle of Lingzhou, the people of Lingzhou have lost a lot of their young men, and the ratio of men and women has long been out of balance. It may be difficult to carry out such a combination!"

Xu Jingzong said: "There are not enough people in Lingzhou. Why don't you order these women to join forces with the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army? Jingzong once inquired that most of the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army were single. Why didn't the general order these women to join the soldiers and open up wasteland? , and give them land, without constant property, without perseverance.”

When Chen Ying heard this, he was overjoyed. He Du did not limit the people he rescued, including Turkic people.Thirty to 4 Turks died in battle, but their families did not suffer much loss.There are nearly 2 Turkic women of school age.

Chen Yingdao: "It's also possible. The officers and men of the army will be selected according to their military merits. They will have one wife and one concubine! They will be given military positions of [-] mu each, [-] mu for their wives, and [-] mu for their concubines!"

Xu Jingzong swiped his pen quickly to record, and Chen Ying continued: "Except for the people who are independent, ten households are used as the armor, the armor is set up as the head, the ten armors are the fortress, the fortress is the fortress, the ten fortresses are the towns, and the towns are the townships." Long. Along the Bugulu Canal in Lingzhou, several towns were set up, and the army was ordered to have extra horses, food, and seeds to help them reclaim wasteland."

Chen Ying made a final decision, and finally the Eighteenth Town of Lingwu was formally established.

Chapter 2 Declaration of Sovereignty

Although running the army is the most important thing, it is an easy thing to do. After all, the Tang Dynasty has a complete military system, and everything can be traced.However, development is the most cumbersome and confusing link.

Now Lingzhou has more than 4000 Turkic people who have surrendered and more than 15 Turkic prisoners of war. Among the Turkic people who surrendered, the young and strong are all transferred into the army by Chen Ying, so as to avoid the hidden danger of them causing chaos in the local area.As for the prisoners of war, under the management of Chen Yingyi Hu Zhihu, they are also very stable.However, with 15 people settling down in Lingzhou, plus the current population of Lingzhou, the population of Lingzhou exceeded [-], approaching the [-] mark.How to solve the problem of nearly [-] mouths to eat is an urgent problem.

More than [-]% of the population of more than [-] are women, but in this era, Chen Ying only wants to treat women as men and men as livestock.But these people, apart from the tattered clothes on their bodies, have nothing else to do.It is simply not feasible to let them go directly to reclamation and land reclamation.

The only way is to learn from Cao Cao to garrison the land. Chen Ying naturally knew that Cao Wei's demise was the usurpation of the Sima family, rather it was the collapse of the garrison system.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars continued year after year, social productivity was greatly damaged, the land was barren, the population dropped sharply, and food shortages formed serious social problems.After Cao Cao occupied Qingzhou, there were millions of homeless refugees in Qingzhou at that time.At this time, Cao Cao established the farmland system, that is, with 60 people as a village, the government provided farming tools and seeds, the common people provided manpower, and the income from farming, the government provided six farmers and four.

In the later period of Cao Wei, the amount of exploitation of farmland was increasing day by day, and the distribution ratio reached the level of eight officials and two people, which caused the fleeing and resistance of the villagers in the village.The tuntian land was continuously invaded by powerful families, so the tuntian system was gradually destroyed.But right now, Chen Ying has no choice but to adopt the farming system.

Because these are the alternatives.Of course, Chen Ying did not directly copy Cao Cao's farming system, but built collective farms on the basis of the Baojia system, with the fort as a unit.The government provides seeds, tools, and livestock for collective creation.Where Chen should improve, this collective farm is not permanent, but has a certain time limit.

All seeds, farm tools, and animals are discounted, and the interest calculation method is [-]% per annum. According to the voluntary principle of the people who signed the contract, these seeds, farm tools, and animals will be repaid in three or five years.If a farmer receives ten guan in financial support and pays off in five years, he needs to repay [-] guan.If the interest rate is high, even Chen Ying is speechless, because in this era, even the most conscientious landlords borrow [-]% interest as the minimum.Passing will return compound interest, which is already the most conscientious interest.

Even if Chen Ying still has more than [-] Turkic prisoners of war who can provide human resources in mining coal mines, iron ore, and manufacturing blast furnace steel, but building farms and farming, accumulating fertile fields, buying animal power, making farm tools, building water conservancy facilities, and roads The construction of buildings and villages and towns in gathering places all require long-term continuous investment.

In the next period of time, in addition to increasing investment in Lingzhou and reclaiming wasteland with the formation of collective farms for farming, the most important type of investment is the construction of various factories.

In the early stage, it is inevitable to invest in resettling refugees, building village forts, town forts, and surrounding buildings.After all, Lingzhou is directly under the cover of the Turkic soldiers. If the Turkic people take risks and break through the Dingyuan Army's defense line, it will cause devastating losses.For this reason, Chen Ying had to delay the construction of the blast furnace and give priority to burning bricks with the coal mined by the Turkic prisoners of war.

Yang Ze, the governor of Lingzhou, discussed with Chen Ying and Xu Jingzong many times in a row. After careful calculation, he finally came to the conclusion that if he wanted to complete the construction of 180 village forts in the eighteen towns, the investment in bricks and tiles alone would be as many as six Seventy thousand guan, but Chen Ying has so little money in his hands.

In the Battle of Lingzhou, Chen Ying did capture a lot. However, apart from paying [-]% of the battle results to the court and cashing in the rewards for meritorious soldiers, Chen Ying can spend no more than [-] guan, of course, this does not include nearly [-] yuan. Expenses of famous soldiers.

The weather is gradually getting warmer, and the people are in full swing to reclaim wasteland.However, the treasury that was about to bottom out made Chen Ying helpless.Although Yang Ze asked the imperial court for support, Chen Ying knew that the landlords in Chang'an did not have much surplus food, and it was the imperial court's best effort to allocate [-] shi of grain to Lingzhou.

Seeing that Chen Ying was at a loss, Xu Jingzong proposed a bad idea to Chen Ying: "Choose a few big families at random, frame them as collaborators, and then confiscate (meaning copy the house) their property!"

Chen Ying refused almost without thinking.

What a joke.

Not putting all eggs in one basket is the habit of a large family for generations. It is a big proposition to pass on the family forever. It's no surprise.

Take the Zheng family in Xingyang as an example, Zheng Guanyin married Li Jian as his wife, but Zheng Jibo, the main family of the Zheng family in Xingyang, supported Wang Shichong in the first house, while Zheng Shanguo in the other house supported Li Mi.When the situation in the world is unclear, no matter whether Li Mi, Li Yuan or Wang Shichong wins the world, the Zheng family can flourish.

Each is a good fig leaf for its own master.Even if one brother kills another brother, isn't there still one brother who is alive and well?The family can survive for a few more years.It's an ancient piece of wisdom, and while it doesn't seem all that heroic, surviving is better than nothing.

If Chen Ying really dared to pierce this fig leaf, it would be a hole in the sky.Chen Ying will become the public enemy of the world's elites. I am afraid that Chen Ying just ransacked someone else's house, and Li Yuan will then raid Chen Ying's house.

However, Xu Jingzong finally pointed out a way for Chen Ying.