Chapter 293: Enter Chang'an
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With the means, the money, and of course, the solid backstage, Yixingtang opened smoothly in Luoyang. The two thick legs that Yixingtang is relying on now can be regarded as the thickest two thighs in Datang now. Li Ze, the general of Qianniuwei, actually governed several towns and ruled millions of people. The other thigh can be regarded as the Fu King Li Xin, who is the actual controller of Luoyang now.
Chengde opened up the trade route to Luoyang through Zhaoyi Festival Town, and the goods from Chengde, Henghai, Zhenwu and other places arrived in Luoyang along this trade route endlessly. How to open up sales channels in a new place and then dominate the market, Yee Hing Tong is familiar with it. On the day of its opening, a boom was formed in Luoyangfang City.
In this era of festivals and towns, the business road is seriously blocked, and the goods of one place want to reach another place smoothly, either they are taken by someone halfway, or they are heavily taxed, and when they get to the land, let alone make money, it is good not to lose money. But now that this trade route has been opened, Chengde's goods have arrived in Luoyang smoothly, and when Zhaoyi passed, Xue Wei only symbolically collected a little tax. This makes Yixingtang's goods have a strong competitiveness in Luo**.
And when this craze was about to subside, Yixingtang's various promotional methods followed closely and continued to extend this craze.
By the time the craze had completely subsided, Yixingtang had already had a place in Luoyang, and Tu Hu had unsurprisingly become a business tycoon with real influence in Luoyang, and various business invitations also came. The businessmen who can occupy a place in Luoyang are all elites among the people, even if they don't know the background of Yixingtang, but they only need to see that this Yixingtang can open up such a business road, and they can understand what it represents.
Although the Northland is now mired in war, on the other hand, the war means that the local production has basically been destroyed, if you can transport your goods there, and you can sell them smoothly, then this profit is obviously more profitable than distributing it in Luoyang, and it can even be described as a huge profit.
War represents destruction, but for others, it also means that more wealth can be easily attained.
But to get that, you need to have a strong partner in a war-torn area, and now Yixingtang is clearly such a partner.
However, there are too many monks and monks, and there are too many people who want to cooperate with Yixingtang, and it is obvious that Yixingtang does not need so many partners, and if you want to succeed in this line, it depends on their respective abilities, and of course, there is also the competition between the big men behind them.
For Yixing Shenzhen, the stronghold has been successfully established, and the rest is deep cultivation. Of course, Tu Hu had to choose his partner carefully, because breaking into the south was also one of the tasks assigned to him by Li Ze.
While Tu Hu was busy with all this, Li Ze and his party had already passed Tongguan and officially set foot on the land of Guanzhong.
Guanzhong south leans on the Qinling Mountains, the Wei River passes through it, the material is rich and the treasure is good, and the people are outstanding. There are natural terrain barriers on all sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack, from the Warring States period there is a saying of "the country of four stops", so Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty used "Jincheng Qianli" to summarize the advantages of Guanzhong to persuade Liu Bangding to make the capital of Guanzhong. During the Warring States Period, Zhang Yi said to Qin Hui Wang Chen about the plan of "Lianheng", and praised Guanzhong for "the fields are fertile and beautiful, the people are rich, the chariots are ten thousand, the hundred trades are fought, the fertile fields are thousands of miles, and the accumulation is abundant", and said, "This so-called Tianfu, the heroic country of the world", which is more than half a century earlier than the Chengdu Plain to obtain the title of "the country of abundance". This is because after Guanzhong was repaired from the Zhengguo Canal in the Warring States Period, it became a feng shui treasure land with abundant products and the emperor built the capital.
But after hundreds of years of prosperity, Chang'an has lost the title of the country of abundance, and has been used as the imperial capital for a long time, the biggest side effect is the concentration of a large number of population, at this time Chang'an, bringing together about two million people, just within the city wall, there are millions of huge, the entire capital covers an area of eighty-four square kilometers, which is quite a terrifying data.
Two million people, the daily necessities that need to be consumed in a day is a unimaginable number for ordinary people, even in Li Ze's original era, looking at the world, there are not many cities with a population of more than two million. As a result, the Guanzhong area simply cannot feed such a large number of people, so the huge amount of materials needed has to be transported from outside.
Once the passage of foreign materials is strangled, Chang'an will immediately be in trouble.
More importantly, too many people and too many cities also brought too many difficulties to defense in wartime. A large population in times of war does not mean that more soldiers can be drafted, because soldiers have to eat. Without food, too many people are a huge destabilizing factor.
In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, the entire Chang'an's defense force was scattered in the four passes, Dongtong Pass, West Sanguan, North Xiao Pass, South Wu Pass, Chang'an's defense system was based on these four passes, once one of the four passes was broken, Chang'an basically could not hold.
Of the 200,000 Shence troops, in addition to 50,000 stationed in Luoyang, the remaining 150,000 were basically distributed in Chang'an City and the surrounding four passes. It sounds like a lot, but when you spread it out, there aren't many of them.
When Li Ze arrived in Luoyang, there were only more than 70 guards left around him, but when he arrived at Tongguan, he was escorted by 3,000 Shence troops sent by Li Xin, the blessed king. When they arrived at Tongguan, the 3,000 Shence army subordinate to King Fu handed over Li Ze and others, and the one who escorted Li Ze to Chang'an City instead of them became the Shence army of Tongguan.
To Li Ze's surprise, waiting to greet him in Tongguan was an old acquaintance he had been known for a long time, but had never met, Chen Bangzhao.
At the beginning of the conflict between Chengde and Lu Long, the person who the imperial court intended to enter the northern town of Fan was Chen Bangzhao, but unfortunately, because of Li Ze's sudden rise and because Chengde quickly stabilized the political situation after the defeat, and in the subsequent counteroffensive, not only destroyed Henghai, Zhenwu, and even suppressed Lu Long's Yingzhou, which made this plan stillborn. also forced the imperial court to change its course and win over Li Ze instead.
Putting these aside, just from the fact that the imperial court was preparing to send Chen Bang to summon the northern land that was in chaos at that time, it was enough to see this person's ability.
And now Chen Bangzhao is the official champion general, leading the 80,000 divine troops of Tongguan and Wuguan. The main force is mainly stationed in the Tongguan area.
The Tongguan Pass is nominally a pass, but in reality it controls a considerable area, and together with the Yellow River and Jindu, it forms a defensive system. Tongguan is located between Longmenjin and Pujin in the north, Fenglingdu and Maojin in the east, and is the center of gravity of the entire defense system. If Tongguan is lost, Chang'an will inevitably be unprotected.
The imperial court placed Chen Bangzhao in Tongguan, which was quite a trust in him.
"General Chen, I've admired my name for a long time." Looking at the military general in front of him who was not tall but full of fierce faces, Li Ze hugged his fists and smiled. The champion general, like his Qianniuwei general, is a martial artist on the third grade. Of course, when it comes to the imperial court's trust in Chen Bangzhao, it is naturally not comparable to Li Ze, and the importance of Tongguan is more important than Chengde. But from another aspect, it is Li Ze, the general of Qianniuwei, who can affect the overall situation of the world now. How Li Ze does it can be said to be related to the survival of the Tang Dynasty now. Although Chen Bangzhao commanded the army, he could only defend and not attack.
Chen Bangzhao was also looking at Li Ze. Life encounters, sometimes it's really unclear, when he was the champion general, Li Ze was still unknown, at that time, few people knew the true identity of this person, but in just two years, Li Ze was not a hit, a blockbuster, from a white Ding in an instant, to become the Henghai Festival Envoy, the general of Qianniuwei, and he was on an equal footing.
Of course, Chen Bangzhao knew very well that in addition to Li Ze having a good father, it was more about his own efforts, and Gao Xiangsheng reported Li Ze's things to the imperial court in every detail.
Although he is not as young as he is, this person is a real powerful person.
Now this character obediently arrived in Chang'an, and also sent his mother and wife as hostages, which made Chen Bangzhao very pleased, because this represented Li Ze, who was still very loyal to the imperial court.
In fact, when Li Ze left for Chang'an, the merger of the three towns had become an undoubted fact, and even if the imperial court was not at ease, it had to give it, otherwise the situation in the north would inevitably change.
A powerful festival town is about to be born, and the owner of this festival town is a boy who is not yet twenty years old.
This year, Li Ze is only 17 years old.
"Li Shuai crisscrossed the north, destroyed the sea, swallowed Zhenwu, captured Yingzhou, galloped vertically and horizontally, invincible, Chen Mou is the real long-admired name!" Chen Bangzhao said with emotion: "Since ancient times, heroes have come out of youth, and the ancients have not deceived me. ”
"The time is also strong, Li is just at the right time, and General Chen praised it falsely." Li Ze looked at the Shence Army lined up on both sides of the road with a smile on his face, it seemed that the army was well-organized and disciplined, and it should be an army with strong combat effectiveness. But it's hard to say how, because the Chang'an Shence Army seems to have not fought for more than ten years, and the old ones have almost retreated now, unlike the following Jiezhen, today you beat me, tomorrow I beat you, and the small fights have not stopped.
"Li Shuai will go to Chang'an this time, and he will be escorted by Chen." Chen Bangzhao smiled and said: "Walking with Li Shuai all the way, I just happened to ask Li Shuai for advice." ”
"The general is going to torture me, when it comes to governing the army and war, it's me, a young boy, to ask the general who has experienced a hundred battles for advice. Don't hide it from the general, seeing that I am about to confront Zhang Zhongwu, I am very worried in my heart! Li Ze said with a smile.