The brave warriors have gained a lot in the past six months of training, but it is not without damage. On the contrary, the losses were devastating.

First of all, the biggest loss was when he first ascended to Longlong, and his unwillingness to adapt to the climate made the state greatly reduced, although there were old soldiers such as Ma Xing and Li Guang to follow the escort, but their experience was actually not lacking in obsolescence.

After the loss of the four towns in the special vertical arch year, the penetration of Tubo into Longbian was greater. The Huhists themselves are not credible, and many originally safe roads and regions have become in danger.

Therefore, in the first month of Denglong, nearly 100 of the brave soldiers lost their combat effectiveness due to various injuries and diseases. Although some of them recovered after recuperating in Lanzhou and returned to the team, dozens of people were buried forever.

After a period of buffer adjustment, the brave soldiers gradually entered the rhythm of fighting to nourish the war. However, just as the Anxi War was coming to an end, the commentator suddenly organized a surprise attack on the Heyuan army, and although the Heyuan was protected under the command of the Black Tooth Chang Unfazed, many of the outlying city forces suffered heavy losses, including the daring soldiers.

Speaking of this, Li Ge was also tearful, and from his pathetic tone, Li Tong also felt heartache.

"Lord Lang is, he is...... The subordinates are not greedy for vanity, but no one is fighting for vanity, but seeing the rotten flesh and bones of the robe, I don't want them to lose their reputation......"

Li Ge knelt on the ground again, kowtowed, and said.

Seeing this, Li Tong stood up from the seat and said solemnly: "They will not be nameless, and they will not be left alone. In time, I will personally recall the souls of the heroes, let their souls return to their homeland, look at this world, and never live up to this magnificent blood! ”

When Li Ge heard this, his sad face gradually subsided, and he kowtowed again, then raised his head and stared at Li Tong and said, "If another noble person makes this promise, his subordinates will not dare to believe it." But the household has been miserable for a hundred years, and the only one who can give grace and help the poor is the only one! The people of the grass field, although they are ignorant of great knowledge, but as long as the lord of Lang glances, those who sacrifice their lives are all over the grass! ”

Next, Li Ge collected his emotions and talked about some follow-up arrangements.

At present, the daring warriors have established themselves in Longshang, but the first batch of daring warriors who have climbed to Longlong have also been disabled nearly half, in addition to various other objective reasons, it is also due to the lack of preparation, such as all kinds of bow and armor equipment is a big shortcoming.

However, they also recruited or plundered a large number of craftsmen in Longbian, and they all transported them to Hanzhong at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains according to the original plan, and took advantage of the relatively safe environment there for production.

At the same time, the former Sui craftsmen who were hidden in the vicinity of Longshan by the Dou family were also integrated one after another, and they could directly build a base integrating production and follow-up in Longshan.

Before the arrival of the cold winter, Li Ge sent some of the wounded back to Guanzhong, and Qinling had a new group of brave warriors with 500 people to continue to climb Longlong, bringing the old with the new.

Of course, this new group of daring fighters is certainly not as strong as the first batch in terms of quality and experience, but the environment they face is not as difficult as it was at the beginning.

It already has the foundation laid by its predecessors, and with the recovery of the four towns, the order between the Western Regions and Longxi is gradually restored, and Tubo does not dare to be as rampant as in previous years.

In the future, Li Tong plans to maintain the scale of two to three thousand people and one army at this base in Longxi. The scale is too small to reflect its significance. If it's too much, it's not good to completely hide it.

And the old clothing society is not just a pure source of soldiers, its internal cohesion lies in the general relief of those soldiers and dead households, if this premise cannot be met, just blindly loot the young and strong, the formation of a private army, just do your best to fish, even if you can grow rapidly in a short period of time, it is very likely to collapse in the future.

However, there are different forms of organization of armed forces, and the army is only one of the most complete and powerful of them. It is not impossible to maintain a basic livelihood and gather a considerable number of young and strong, such as Cao Yun.

When it comes to Cao Yun, we have to mention Emperor Yang of Sui, a loser. The excavation of the Grand Canal has made a qualitative improvement in the material exchange between the north and the south, both in space and quantity.

The Tang Dynasty inherited this Yu Ze, especially after the Middle Tang Dynasty, the Cao rice from the south of the Yangtze River became the ration of the Tang Dynasty's life. However, there is a Tang generation, and there is actually a lack of a systematic and effective management of Caoyun.

Although Liu Yan of the Tang Dynasty reformed the Cao Yun, the focus was still on the financial aspect, and he did not continue to excavate and upgrade the ruling model based on the canal Cao Yun system.

After the collapse of the Tang Empire, the division of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms was everywhere, and even the previous division of feudal towns had a great relationship with this.

Of course, at present, Li Tong's plan is not grand enough to open up the entire Caoyun route, and even the idea of daring to fight Caoyun is a recent idea.

The reason is also very simple, there is not enough authority in the hands.

This kind of thing is difficult to carry out privately, and there are many departments related to the water department under the Ministry of Industry, the warehouse department under the Ministry of Households, Sinong Temple, Taifu Temple, and the Metropolitan Water Supervision Department, and at the local level, there are also the nearby management of the state and county officials. It is basically impossible to intervene without the help of official forces.

Li Tong previously proposed to his grandmother that the capital should be paid to the public, and the position was often closed in various places as the basis, which itself laid a reason for the overall planning of Cao Yun. Of course, such a big stall, it is difficult for him to operate it at the moment, and he never thought of using this to control the presiding power. But even if it's just a little bit of rubbing the edge ball, it's enough for him to digest it for a long time.

At present, the mode of transportation of the imperial court is mainly to issue orders to the local government by various departments in Beijing, and then the capital is transported by the local force. However, there is a problem in this, that is, each region has its own wide township and narrow township, the distribution of household registration is not even, and the frequency and quantity of the imperial court's material transfer cannot be completely adapted to local conditions.

Moreover, the financial situation of the imperial court is really not good, and the proportion of the tax money paid for the service in the annual income is also increasing, and the situation of no service available in various places is becoming more and more serious. Under such circumstances, it has become a trend for unofficial organizations and forces to gradually join the Cao Yun system.

In addition to the above-mentioned points, the huge waste of water transportation organized by the government is also a problem that cannot be ignored. The emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties had an important activity, that is, to eat the eastern capital.

In the Gaozong Dynasty, after eating the eastern capital, the direct freight saved by the Caoyun from Chang'an to Luoyang was enough to pay for the Beijing official month.

After all, the government called for forced labor, then assigned errands, and then went to the service land, and the waste between these journeys included time, and in the agrarian society where agricultural time was like fire, time was also money and food. And that's not even counting the various types of administrative redundancy.

The just need for canal transportation is there, and there is a need for sufficient manpower almost all year round. Therefore, Li Tong felt that his organization of a relatively professional Cao Gang was also a great plan for the benefit of the country and the people.

Therefore, the clothing society has become quite large-scale between the two capitals, there is no shortage of manpower, and many people have no land to cultivate. Including these people in the transportation system, even if they can't do the logistics world, engaging in the transportation contractors between the two capitals can not only maintain a vitality, but also cultivate a certain degree of organization.

As for saying that so many strong laborers are gathered together, will it arouse official vigilance?

First of all, no one would be so stupid as to have thousands of strong laborers piled up on both sides of the river for inspection, and a certain degree of dispersion is necessary. As long as the size of the squad is controlled within a certain range, the government will not bother to ask.

Not to mention anything else, those salt ponds in the east of the river, where are not hundreds of laborers toiling day and night, you go to investigate and gather people to rebel.

Secondly, Li Tong will wait until his official influence has a certain degree of popularity, and even if something unexpected happens, he can make remedies and cover it up before he will make this idea.

Moreover, Li Tong did not intend to place this Cao Gang's stronghold along the Grand Canal, which was still beyond his reach and his interests were more complicated, but Puzhou, Hedong, between the two capitals.

On the one hand, it is naturally strategically located at an important node of the big river transportation, and on the other hand, it is naturally covered up by salt ponds, which can be more convenient.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that so far, salt has still not been accepted as an official camp, and that is after Kaiyuan.

As early as when he was in Xijing, Li Tong asked his second brother Li Shouli to gather those Guan Longxun's noble sons to sell salt in Hedong.

But the plan didn't change quickly, and he didn't expect that he would return to the Shendu and toss his country. As for those noble children, it's okay to join in the fun, but it's difficult for them to start a business from scratch. So until now, this matter has been in a state of stranding.

But now, it is possible to do both things and get this cause off the ground. When Li Tong planned this plan before, he was still greedy for a little convenience for him to seal the country to him, but now he can take a bigger step and directly install his people in Hedong.

Now, Wang Renjiao and others have returned to Shendu and have passed the election, but they have not yet been conferred an official.

Li Tong is waiting for a vacancy in Hedong, Puzhou, eight counties and one state city, hundreds of officials who can manage affairs, he doesn't believe that during the period after the year and the New Year, none of them are a little sick, as long as they vacate the position, Lao Tzu will insert people in!

Before, Li Tong was still thinking about who to send to preside over this matter, Tian Dasheng and the others were loyal enough, but if they were to be placed in the place that extended in all directions in Hedong, there would inevitably be more things to deal with, and Li Tong was a little uneasy.

It just so happened that now that Li Ge had entered the capital, Li Tong talked with him for a while, and felt that this young man was good, so he could be sent over to try and hone it first.

When Li Ge heard that he would not be allowed to return to Longyou, his expression was not lacking in loss, but after a moment of silence, he still said in a muffled voice: "Lord Lang thinks that I can do it, and my subordinates will do their best!" ”