20. Dispatch
It is not difficult to build an agricultural estate, but if you want to transform an agricultural estate into a small town of primary industrial production, it will become a long-term, continuous process of demolition and construction, and it will be difficult to see the results in a few years. Li Qi planned to build Beiyuan into a model of military tun, and then slowly spread and promote it to the entire Jindi and even to the whole country.
The army brought out by others is not as loyal and reliable as the forbidden army created by himself, this is Li Qi's idea, he needs to personally recruit and train a forbidden army loyal to him.
The process of building military camps and reclaiming and transforming barren land is actually a process of gathering people's hearts. When the barracks are built, the fields are reclaimed, and the water conservancy and irrigation facilities are perfect, these soldiers will naturally develop a sense of belonging and dependence when they watch the grange built by their own hands.
After inspecting the Beiyuan Manor, after returning to Jinyang, Li Qi summoned Zhang Shu, Li Huan, Cao Xin, Lu Huan and others to the Jin Palace, to discuss the implementation of Tuntian.
Many things seem simple, but when it is necessary to really implement them, they know that many miscellaneous things are extremely numerous.
First of all, Tuntian needs to recruit young and strong people, as well as livestock, tools, farm tools, bricks and wood and other materials needed to build camps in Tuntian, and the money and food that military households in Tuntian have to pay.
There are thousands of things, first of all, we need to start with recruiting military households, everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as we do it, some things can be slowly solved in the process of implementation.
Due to the long-term war in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, the domestic population became smaller and smaller, especially the young and strong population, and most of them were recruited by military towns in various places to their own accounts and became the tooth army.
In the afternoon, Fu Yanqing and He Fujin, the commanders of the guards, were summoned by the prince into the Jin Palace.
Li Siyuan, the superintendent of the state, issued a decree in Luoyang, and the generals who had been given the names of the former emperor Li Cunxuan allowed the restoration of the old surname, and the Hedong side also implemented the same order, and the sons of the late Jin army general Li Cunxun also restored the old surname Fu.
It was already mid-afternoon, the sun was setting in the west, and the trees in the Jin Palace's mansion had drawn a long shadow, covering the pavement in the courtyard, which made people feel not much heat.
Fu Yanqing and He Fujin were both sons of nobles in the Jin army, so they could enter the Luoyang Praetorian Guard and become middle-level officers. The first emperor attached great importance to the descendants of the original Jin army generals, so he collected many nobles as his own personal guards, and he himself cultivated them as confidants.
He Fujin, Wang Quanbin and other fathers are all generals at the level of Thorn History, but Fu Yanqing's father Fu Cunxian is the highest-level commander in the Jin army.
Since most of the personnel of the Jin Palace, they had moved to the palace in Luoyang, and there were not many people left behind in the palace, and only a few servants in the courtyard were taking care of the flowers and trees, which seemed a little silent.
Fu Yanqing and He Fujin came to the Wenhua Palace, which was the study of the original Jin Palace, and generally did not hold court meetings, and the prince would meet with officials and generals at all levels in the Northern Capital Mansion.
A very young chamberlain introduced Fu and He into the hall and sang in a low voice: "Fu Yanqing and He Fujin have arrived!" ”
At this time, Li Qi was leaning over the imperial case, holding a brush in his hand, and was writing a plan, he raised his head, gestured slightly, and continued to write. After a while, Li Qi put the brush in his hand on the pen stand, with a smile on his face, and said to Fu Yanqing and He Fujin in a very kind tone: "Sit down and talk." ”
After the two of them sat down, the crown prince Li Qi continued to ask: "Can the two of you recognize Ren Yuan, the deputy envoy of Liangchuan?" ”
"I recognize it, but I'm not very familiar with it, he was originally a subordinate of the Zhaoyi Jiedu envoy, and he has been staying in Luzhou, and later went to Zhenzhou as a Xuanhui envoy, and he is not often by the side of the first emperor." Fu Yanqing replied.
Li Qi nodded and continued: "He is now also in charge of Jingzhao Mansion, here is a copy of my handwritten edict, the two of you go to Chang'an, and send 5,000 troops to Jinyang." I don't think Ren Yuan will be so happy, so I sent the two of you over, after all, I know each other, and it's easier to talk. But don't force it, it's the best thing to do. ”
Fu Yanqing hesitated slightly, and then asked, "Jinyang is a matter of foundation, so dare Ren Yuan not listen to the prince's orders?" ”
Li Qi sighed: "His attitude is wavering now, and Li Siyuan is also trying his best to win him over, but fortunately, Yuan Xingqin is restrained in Huazhou, and Shi Jingtang can't pass Tongguan." I don't want to push him too much, otherwise I might throw myself to Luoyang. Now I am preparing to implement military cantonment around Jinyang, and I am worried about the source of soldiers, and the transfer of these Guanzhong troops is only for the use of tuntian. Are the two Aiqing willing to worry about a certain point and go to Chang'an for a while? ”
"Your Highness sends, and we should obey our orders. It's just that I don't think Ren Yuan will hand over the elite, maybe he will hand over the old and weak who have been eliminated and deal with the prince. He Fujin said.
"Even if it's the old and weak in the army, I'm in urgent need of manpower now." Li Qi said.
Subsequently, Li Qi told the two of them his thoughts in detail, he planned to start raising troops in Tuntian, but this manpower was the first problem to be solved. It turned out that most of the army of the Later Tang Dynasty came from Guanzhong, and he wanted to transfer a part of the original Jin army and some troops from Guanzhong to be placed around Jinyang and implement Tuntian.
When the two of them went to Guanzhong this time, they not only wanted to bring some of the troops over, but it was best to bring their families and migrated over together. In addition, you can also recruit some displaced people in Guanzhong to come to Jinyang.
In the past two years, there has been a drought in the north, the harvest in the fields has not been good, and there are many displaced people who have left their hometowns to make a living.
After sending Fu Yanqing and He Fujin to Guanzhong, and after explaining the specific matters, Li Qi felt relaxed and walked to the busy workshop construction site at the foot of the mountain in the back garden of the palace with his hands behind his back.
Li Qi actually admires the craftsmen of this era very much in his heart, as long as you give the drawings, although they are not very standard, but after a little explanation, you can make some exquisite mechanical parts.
The Jin Wang's Mansion is close to the Jin Temple, and there are a lot of springs gushing out at the foot of Tianlong Mountain, gathering into a stream, and finally forming Jin Shui. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin Temple began to irrigate the farmland with water, and the grain production was abundant, feeding a large number of people. This is also a major reason why Jinyang City can stand for thousands of years and continue to expand and develop.
A mill has been built on a canal, and a turbine has driven a huge stone mill to spin under the impetus of the current. Although the rotation speed was obviously a little slow in Li Qi's eyes, in the eyes of Zhang Shu, the head of Jinyang Palace and Jin Palace, and the servants of the palace, this thing was simply a miracle.
Li Qi was a little worried, the strength of those wooden gears soaked in tung oil ......
Obviously, his worries were somewhat unnecessary. Seeing the broken millet powder constantly pouring out of the gap in the middle of the rapidly rotating stone mill, Zhang Shu, the head of the palace, still had his mouth half open, shocked......