As Kublai Khan tossed around in the west, news became more and more frequent. However, even the latest news was a month ago. “

"Kublai Khan wants to make Apple City the western capital." Cui Xiuning said, "Ananda, the king of Anxi, replied, changed the title of the king of Zhenxi, and sat in Apple City. Kublai Khan also requisitioned slaves from various ethnic groups in the Western Regions and built two more east-west post stations. ”

"One is the post station from Ili to the Black Sea. There is also a post station passage from Turpan to Qiermancheng (Persian Gulf). ”

"Kublai Khan's goal is that even if there is something going on in Western Asia and Eastern Europe, the news will be transmitted back to Dadu within a month. In addition, the heavy cavalry group stationed in Gansu was able to support any part of the west, including Eastern Europe, within three months. ”

After Cui Xiuning finished speaking, he handed the latest information to Li Luo. Li Luo didn't look at it again, Cui Xiuning had already made it clear.

It seems that Kublai Khan not only wanted to restore the control of the "Great Khan Khanate" (Yuan court) over the Western Regions and Eastern Europe during the Ögedai period, but he also wanted to achieve more complete control than Ögedei.

Li Luo was speechless, the East and the West were originally connected by the Silk Road, and they were very developed. The Silk Road from Chang'an can connect India, West Asia, Europe, and North Africa.

Moreover, the Silk Road was more developed in the Yuan Dynasty and was far more prosperous than in the Song Dynasty. The Silk Road of the Yuan Dynasty was the third glorious period after the Han and Tang dynasties.

In addition, in order to control the west, several generations of emperors of the Mongol and Yuan dynasties vigorously built post stations on the Silk Road, making the post stations from the northwest to West Asia densely scattered. Meng Yuan attached great importance to Zhanchi (post post) transportation, and a large number of slaves could be requisitioned by force and free of charge, and low-cost construction, so it was really "building a road for thousands of miles".

As early as the Ögedei era, the Mongol Empire built a post station from Shangdu and Lin to the Golden Horde.

Then, with the addition of the two post stations to be repaired, there are more than four major traffic arteries between the east and the west!

This project ...... It's really hehe.

I have to say that Meng Yuan's barbarism sometimes has objective "benefits". At least it can do it regardless of labor, not afraid of resistance from the bottom, and can get things done.

There is no need to think about how much labor is required for such a large project, and how many slaves will die. But where would the Mongol aristocracy care about this?

This is a change of Han dynasty, few dare to do this, even if they do it, they will be criticized for thousands of years.

The reason is sad to say. Although Meng Yuan is brutal? But it doesn't have to do labor with its own people, but it does it with the vanquished. The Han dynasty can only do it with its own people? Of course, I don't dare to do it so brutally.

The Yuan Dynasty ruled for more than a hundred years since the destruction of Jin? The mileage of the roads built is more than that of several great dynasties combined, and even many difficult places in the northwest and southwest have been repaired? It depends on force and brute force. One of the most important tasks of the southwest Tusi of the Yuan Dynasty was to build and maintain a post station? Because of this, many people of various ethnic groups in the southwest died.

"Building roads is not a bad thing for us. We also want the Western Regions? Then it will be up to you to see who wins. Li Luo said. He's confident? So he wished that the Yuan court would build roads.

Cui Xiuning said: "Kublai Khan has returned to the east, and now it is estimated that he has arrived in Gansu." Although the Yuan court lost the south, it gained Central and Western Asia. From a military point of view, it is already stronger. ”

"Secret Service analysis? The Yuan court will definitely send troops to the south next year. ”

"Next year's southern expedition?" Li Luo snorted? "I still want to go on the Northern Expedition next year, it's up to me to see who fights first!"

Cui Xiuning said with a smile: "The south has just gotten its hands on it, and it hasn't eased its breath yet, and production has not resumed?" The Northern Expedition next year? It's too urgent. Ministers will also feel rushed. Next year, the most is to win Guanzhong? Retreat. ”

"I don't think about the Northern Expedition yet. Within a year, it is enough to do a good job in internal affairs and military training. The Yuan army is going to fight, and we must not be moved. ”

Li Luo also knew that Cui Xiuning was right. The so-called Northern Expedition next year is simply unrealistic. It's late July, and the second mid-year festival has been held.

Although the Tang Dynasty unified the southern country, it was in ruins, and the foundation was not stable, and the Northern Expedition next year was obviously too hasty.

Li Luo is not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang now. Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Jiangnan for many years, and only went on a northern expedition a few years after destroying Chen Youliang, and his foundation was already very solid. What about him? It has only been more than two years since the army was raised, and it has only been a few months since Huguang was occupied.

Besides, the Yuan army at this time and the Yuan army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty were very different in strength. In the event of a major defeat, the consequences are extremely serious.

Hundreds of thousands of infantry ran to the north to fight with hundreds of thousands of cavalry...... Let's not talk about whether the Tang State has this strength or not, how hung does it have to be?

It's already good to be able to win Guanzhong next year. Even this goal requires a long preparation time, and logistics are not so easy.

"Let's go around the palace." Cui Xiuning proposed.

The two of them didn't take the shoulder, so they took a few guards and palace guards to relax in the palace.

Xiao Liang has plants and trees, and thinks that it is a wood, so the palace is characterized by green trees and flourishing flowers and plants. Xiao Yin, who likes to enjoy, even transplanted the ancient trees outside Jiangling City into the palace, which also caused a lot of cicadas in summer, which made people upset.

The palace where the two live now is called Longzhang Palace, which was originally the palace where Xiao Yin summoned him to see and rest, and the functions of the office and the dormitory were integrated, similar to the Qianqing Palace in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Cui Xiuning, as the queen, was supposed to live in Fengzi Palace, where Empress Xiao Liang lived. But the two didn't want to separate, so they didn't conform to the etiquette and law and lived in the Qianqing Palace.

Looking out from the Longzhang Palace Hall, the most majestic place is the Guangzheng Hall used for the court. Before the Guangzheng Palace, it was the Qinglong Gate, one of the inner palace gates.

According to the system of the Tang Palace, inside the Qinglong Gate is the palace city, and outside the gate is the imperial city. The yamen of the temples of the three prefectures and nine departments, as well as the temple of Tang Guozong, are all in the imperial city. The area of the imperial city is very large, with four gates, namely Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu, and each gate is stationed with a mixed independent Praetorian Guard regiment.

Beyond the Imperial City is the urban area. Gangneung Fortress is a large city, and a Praetorian Guard Brigade is stationed at each of the four gates in the southeast, northwest, and north. With the addition of the 3,000-strong Huya Forbidden Army, 30,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in the entire Jiangling City.

Outside the city, there were two large camps in the east and west, each with 30,000 soldiers and horses. That is to say, inside and outside Gangneung, there were nearly 100,000 troops to defend.

That's not counting the eight hundred guards in the palace.

It's impregnable.

Today, the Tang Palace, which has accepted the people of Xiaoliang Palace, has reached 4,000 palace envoys, plus the guards, and it is already very popular.

Li Luo streamlined the palace divisions according to the institutions of the Ming Dynasty, and removed the eight yamen of the 24 yamen in the inner court of the Ming Dynasty, including the ceremonial supervisor, the military war bureau, and the imperial horse supervisor, and retained only 16 of them, which were called "16 internal yamen".

The abolition of these internal officials is tantamount to abolishing the institutional platform for internal eunuchs to interfere in politics, so that they no longer have the ability to infect the political power and military power.

In order to give the eunuchs and palace ladies the ability to serve, Li Luo also summoned many outstanding craftsmen from all walks of life into the palace and taught them cooking, clothing, brewing, goldsmithing, printing and dyeing and other techniques. After all, many royal things of the royal family still need to be customized in the palace.

At this time, the two of them walked to a place called Siyuan Bureau.

The Siyuan Bureau is a small yamen responsible for the vegetables and fruits in the palace.

As soon as the two of them arrived at the door, they heard the scolding from inside: "Blind slave! Didn't you see that this watermelon is not round enough! The color is not good, and I have to pick it in for Ha! Looking for death! ”

It was the voice of the lieutenant who often served Qian Long, and he was scolding.

Zhongguan Chang Shi is Li Luo's newly established eunuch, similar to the chief eunuch of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Li Luo set up four eunuch chiefs and four female officials in the palace, but did not set up a chief manager, so that these eight people could check and balance each other.

Qian Long's official position is: supervising the food affairs of the official and serving the official.

All food and drink, from procurement, planting and breeding management, quality inspection, processing and production, related personnel and yamen, etc., are all in charge of the official and regular attendants of the supervising food affairs.

Qian Long was pointing at a little eunuch and scolding him, and suddenly saw everyone kneeling down in horror, his voice immediately stopped abruptly, and he quickly turned around and bowed down: "Slave Qianlong, knock on the king, Niangniang!" ”

Li Luo's eyes swept and he saw a watermelon that was not too round on the wooden table.

Now that the summer is hot, Li Luo, his wife and their children have to eat chilled watermelon every day. In fact, they don't pay attention to it at all, as long as the watermelon is ripe and sweet enough. But I didn't expect that when I arrived at the Siyuan Bureau, Qian Long's requirements were so harsh.

Not only should it be big enough, but it should also be round enough and the color should be beautiful!

It's just a watermelon, as far as it's concerned?

However, Li Luo had no intention of punishing Qian Long at all.

What is in his mouth, he is not afraid of being harsh, he is afraid of not being harsh!

Besides, if he scolds Qian Long in front of the little eunuch, then he can't do his job. In front of grassroots employees, big leaders should maintain the face of small leaders.

This is management, and you can't break the rules. Otherwise, it will be difficult to manage, and things will not be easy to do.

Unless the small leader goes too far and crosses the line. This has to be done all at once.

"Get up. Qian Long, the health regulations in this palace, will they all recite and abide by them? Li Luo asked.

Qian Long hurriedly replied: "Back to the king, other people's slaves and maids don't know, and the people in charge of slaves and maids can recite and abide by them." Just in the morning, a palace maid didn't wear a mask when she cut vegetables, so she was fined ten points and started over. ”

Masks, health regulations, and a point system, these are all things that the little couple has come up with.

However, the lieutenants did not have the power to physically punish and beat them. Once anyone commits something serious, it will be handed over to the palace law hall for disposal, and the big eunuch has no right to arbitrarily dispose of the small eunuch.

In the Tang Palace, whether it is a palace maid or a eunuch, the human rights are still much stronger than in previous dynasties. The little couple is managing them in the model of modern state-owned enterprises, not managing slaves.

Li Luo nodded and left with Cui Xiuning.

"Congratulations to the King! Congratulations to the mother! Qian Long hurriedly bowed.

"We have really become a rotten ruling class." Cui Xiuning smiled with a complicated expression, "It's so much to eat a watermelon." ”

The attendants followed not far away, but could not hear her.

Li Luo said: "Isn't this good? I think it's good. In modern society, there are still a lot of people who serve others, and their fate is at the mercy of others. It's all for food. Essentially no different. ”

"They serve us well, so that we have more energy and better body management of the country, which is their value."

"Okay." Cui Xiuning said, "We can still maintain this view, and when it comes to Li Zheng, Li Zheng's son, we won't see it that way." They will think that the palace people are slaves. ”

Li Luo said indifferently: "Then we don't have to worry about it." We can't tell them what universal values or human rights are, we can only lead by example and let them have a minimum of respect for their subordinates. There are some things that can only be done, not said. ”

The two walked around the yamen in the palace, and when they returned to Longzhang Palace, Wen Tianlong was already waiting.

"The King." Wen Tianxiang stood up to salute, but was supported by Li Luo, "Mr. Wen, don't be polite, enter the palace at this time, but what's the matter?" ”

Every time Wen Tianxiang enters the palace, there must be something important, and it must be related to the military.

Wen Tianxiang said: "The military situation reported by Liu Tuo, the governor of the Jiaozhou Navy Division, is the news about Tianzhu. Annan... The maritime merchants of Jiaozhou heard the news in the Western Ocean (referring to the Indian Ocean at that time) that a large number of horses came from the east in May, and suddenly attacked the Ahong Kingdom, killed the king of the Ahong Kingdom, and occupied the dove's nest. ”

"The minister thinks that it should be the remnants of Dali and Xiao Liang."

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning glanced at each other, and it was not strange.

The Xiao family brothers and sisters spent two months crossing the Rakhine Mountains and suddenly appeared on the eastern shore of the Indian Ocean, and it was completely too late to spend another month to destroy the defenseless Ahong Kingdom, after all, they had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Crossing mountains and mountains is a daunting path for others, but what is it for Dali people? Walking from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the lower place, you are the indigenous people of the southwest mountainous area, and you are still afraid of the old forest?

It is said that the expeditionary force of later generations fought against the Japanese army in Burma, and the most powerful were the Yunnan soldiers. You must know that in history, the entire northern Myanmar belonged to Dali. Dali is the true master of Myanmar's rainforest. It's a pity that that large area of primeval forest was given to British Burma by my Qing Dynasty, and it became Burma's.

"It's supposed to be them." Li Luo said with certainty.

Wen Tianxiang said: "The sailor wants to go on an expedition to fight a dozen at a time, and the minister means to let them go freely, let them toss first." But this matter is very important, and I ask the king to adjudicate it. ”

The sailor wants to fight? No way!

Li Luo shook his head without thinking, "Don't fight." Just let them toss. Not only to make them toss... Give them a hand if necessary! ”

Wen Tianxiang smiled: "Chen understands. ”

Both the monarch and the minister smiled tacitly.

Wen Tianxiang said again: "The soldiers of the sailor have not fought for a long time, and they can't find an opponent. There were quite a few complaints in the army, saying that there was no merit to be made. ”

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning have known about this for a long time. However, today's Tang Army Naval Division has no opponent in the whole world, and the only Song Army Naval Division, which is barely an opponent, cannot fight, otherwise it will be cheaper for the natives of the Nanyang Islands.

The Yangtze River Naval Division is better, at least the Yangtze River must be blocked. And the navy simply has nothing to do, just looking at the army's non-stop meritorious service, the eyes are red.

The army has not been fighting for a long time, but it has to be abolished, no matter how much you train.

Li Luo stood up and paced, and suddenly said, "Or, take the Japanese country first and let the sailor move?" ”

Originally, Li Luo planned to take Japan again next year, after all, there is a shortage of food and materials now, and there is a shortage of food everywhere. Some of the previous grain reserves were used up again in the war this year.

In addition to the grain surpluses in the southeast, Haidong and Yizhou, other places, including Annam, also need relief.

The Japanese have a garrison of 100,000 troops, although the Han army and the Goryeo army are the mainstay, but there are also 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, the overall combat strength is not weak, and there are many Japanese servant troops.

Japan is not small, and its population is also quite large, and if you want to swallow Japan, you must send at least 70,000 or 80,000 troops.

The amount of grain and grass that needs to be consumed is not a small amount, and Tang Ting is now short of supplies, although he can take it out, but the reserves for emergency use are even less.

"It works. But there's no hurry. It is best to wait until the autumn grain comes down and there is some surplus before sending troops. Today, Datang consumes 300,000 stone of military food every month, but the reserve grain is only 800,000 stone, and it has just lasted until the autumn harvest. Wen Tianxiang said.

Li Luo looked at Cui Xiuning, "What is the situation in Japan?" Can you let the Japanese soldiers and horses eat with the Japanese country? ”

Cui Xiuning holds the information and is most familiar with the situation.

Cui Xiuning shook his head: "King, as far as the concubines know, in recent years, the Japanese country has built a lot of pastures to raise horses, the area of cultivated land has dropped greatly, many people are starving to death every day, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and the Yuan Court does not care about it at all." Where is the surplus food? ”

"However, Japan has been raising horses for several years, and now there are at least 100,000 war horses. The Yuan court was very worried that we would attack Japan, and the Pingzhang Yamen of Dongying Province had no choice but to train more Japanese troops to assist in defense. ”

Li Luo sighed secretly, saying that, if you want to conquer the day, you can only wait until after the autumn harvest.

Grain, grain!

Since coming to this world, he has gone from worrying about having no money to having more money, and he didn't worry about money a few years ago. But food has been worrying.

In this era, the yield per mu is too low, and the social surplus grain is too small. The agricultural production system is also very fragile, whether it is a natural disaster or a military disaster, as long as it happens, it will definitely be a big reduction in production, and it will take a long time to recover.

Let's just say that in this battle of the Tang Army to unify the south, as soon as the Tang Army arrived, many people fled without knowing the details, and they fled for half a month and a month.

It seems that Tang Junqiu did not commit any crimes, and it seems that the war is not violent, but in fact, as long as one soldier is used and one bandit is suppressed, the impact on production is still terrible.

For many people of the Three Kingdoms, it doesn't matter if your Tang Army is really a benevolent and righteous army, as long as you come, I will flee first.

"Don't worry, the king has been ordered everywhere to build water conservancy, provide relief to the victims, and restore production, which has been fruitful. There will be a slight surplus of autumn grain, which is enough for a fight. Wen Tianxiang said.

Li Luo nodded, "Then first secretly transfer 80,000 soldiers and horses to stand by in Songjiang Chongming, as long as the autumn grain arrives, the widow will personally conquer the Japanese country!" ”

"Yes!"

In the battle of recovering the country, Li Luo had to do it himself this time, and he didn't want to fake anyone anymore.

A secret order went down, and part of the Tang army began to act. The military division government drew up a plan for the transfer of troops, which was 20,000 naval divisions and 80,000 land divisions, with a total of 100,000 troops.

Among them, there were 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 firearms soldiers.

Such a powerful force is enough to deal with the garrison army.

As long as the Japanese state is collected, it can put pressure on Liaodong of the Goryeo Yuan Court and contain some Yuan troops who dare not move.

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