The communication with Xue Yantuo's envoy was very simple, telling him that the emperor was on his northern tour and wanted to reward Xue Yantuo, let Yi Nan come to receive the reward quickly, and bring back the team that built the city by the way.

Now, everyone in the world knows that Xue Yantuo has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin will care more about his personal safety than Yi Nan himself, after all, in this period, Yi Nan is the big hero who led Xue Yantuo's department from weak to strong, and the people of Mobei Grassland are wanting, and Datang cannot lose his trust with the people of Mobei.

And now the grazing location of Yi Nan's department is less than 800 miles away from Shanyang, and the fast horse can arrive in a day or two, half a month, enough time for the messenger to rush back to inform him to come.

What is more labor-intensive is the military parade, Sun Xiang is basically a big shopkeeper for the military aspect, and he has full authority to Su Dingfang and other generals to manage, he is usually fine, he basically does not go to the barracks, even if he goes, he is also to teach those soldiers to plant military fields.

Therefore, he is very uneasy in this regard, after all, Li Shimin has asked the entire Anbei Army to refer to it, and it must have the effect of deterring the grassland Xiaoxiao.

The second is the problem of the parade venue, Shanyang is a block system, although the road is also wide, but not as wide as Chang'an to the point where it can be used for the army to line up, and let the 100,000 troops pass in the lively block, it doesn't seem to be good, on both sides of the street, it can be directly a shop, or a people's home.

After Sun Xiangfu came to the barracks, he discussed this matter with Su Dingfang, who knew that Su Dingfang directly pulled him to the city wall at the north gate of Shanyang City.

"Grand Governor, in a quarter of an hour, our Anbei Army will pass in front of the North City Gate."

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he looked at the city, and immediately felt that it was good to put the military parade ceremony outside the city gate, after all, outside the north gate of Shanyang City, it was all a flat grassland.

The difference between talent and mediocrity is that he can always give good advice, Su Dingfang is a proper talent, Sun Xiangfu immediately decided to set the parade venue outside the North City Gate.

After a while, a rumbling sound came from a distance, it turned out that it was the sergeants who walked out of the main road after lining up in the barracks in the city, and the general of the cavalry led by him was the general Xi Junmai of Shangzhen.

"Hey, the footsteps"

"The last general occasionally saw the training of your pro-guard army, and thought it was very good, so he learned some of it."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu understood.

When the escort team was formed, Sun Xiangfu trained with him for a period of time, and some of the training methods of the army in later generations, Sun Xiangfu and Zhao Long mentioned some, many of which were cited by Zhao Long in the usual training of the escort team, and they have been correcting and improving.

For example, some postures such as stepping, stepping, striding and good housekeeping, these characteristics have been magnified by Zhao Long, who is good at leading troops, and when it comes to Su Dingfang, it is a step further and has made it a very strict regulation.

And Su Dingfang's way of leading the troops is in the same vein as Li Jing, and his control over his subordinate generals is very high, so he has achieved the current strict military appearance of the Anbei Army.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, except for Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army, there were no soldiers and horses of that guard who could maintain daily training, however, the Anbei Army was able to do it because they had enough military funds.

Money has always been the foundation of a strong army, even in later generations, wars, fighting are about science and technology, but also about economy and financial resources.

The Anbei Army has major workshops in Shanyang to provide advanced equipment, enough good food to improve the soldiers' bodies, enough excellent war horses to ride, and enough scientific training methods to improve the enemy's killing skills, so there is no reason why they are not strong.

When the cavalry marched through the city gate hole and the infantry troops came to the city wall, Sun Xiangfu seemed to see the army formation of later generations, and he was shocked by his own army.

"General Su, if you use a fast horse, can you invite the leaders of the generals, the Murowei department, and the department to Shanyang to watch the parade within half a month?"

The location of Shanyang is also about 1,200 miles away from the nearest part of these tribes, if it is like Guannai, there is a post station to change horses, 800 miles a day, it is possible to spread the news within two or three days, so that people can come calmly.

But on the steppe

"Yes."

"Really? How? Su Dingfang surprised Sun Xiangfu again and asked curiously.

"Governor, have you forgotten that there are already many families in the six hundred miles to the east! Our messengers can exchange horses with them along the way.

And you have rented three types of land to the ministry for grazing, now it is the period when the summer grass is lush on the grassland, suitable for grazing, our people only need to bring binoculars, to get over there, you can find herdsmen with horses everywhere, as long as the strong people sent out to hurry day and night, eight hundred miles a day may not be able to do, but six or seven hundred miles is absolutely possible, so that within three or five days, the news can be delivered to the ministry, more than ten days, enough for them to come. ”

Military strategists are powerful, for similar things that can be used, they will not miss at all, Sun Xiangfu asked himself if he could be a military strategist, so he had to hand over this matter to Su Dingfang to do, anyway, Shanyang's location is just in the middle of the entire northern grassland, and the distance from all parties is no more than three thousand miles, in case of some delay, Sun Xiangfu can also let Li Shimin delay the military parade, since he does it, he will simply do it to the extreme, this is the confidence that the Anbei Army brought him.

After explaining the military parade to Su Dingfang clearly, Sun Xiangfu had not returned to the mansion before he was found by Chu Suiliang again.

"Governor Dadu, a messenger came to the yamen to inform him that the Hu Shang team in the Western Regions can reach Shanyang in more than ten days at most, and the number of people is very large, at least more than 50,000 people."

"More than 50,000 people?"

Even if Sun Xiangfu knew early on that the Hu Chamber of Commerce in the Western Regions was the first to arrive in Shanyang in June this year, he never thought that the scale of the people who came would exceed 50,000, because, in previous years, there were only a few hundred caravans and 10,000 people at most.

It seems that his purchase list and the bait of the mirror have played a great role, and the number of Hu merchants cannot increase so much at one time, most of them have brought the slaves they have collected, the strong men or something.

"Yes, they will arrive in Shanyang one step ahead of His Majesty, if they all stay in Shanyang's inn, I am afraid that those ministers of the court will not be able to find a place to live." Chu Suiliang said with a worried face.

"Don't you have a place to live? Not necessarily, you can find a few of the preparatory assassins who came with you, and come to my house with them, and I have something to discuss with you. ”

Sun Xiangfu heard Chu Suiliang say the situation, not only was he not worried, but said with a smile.

What is a courtier?

For ordinary people, it is an exploiting class that cannot be offended.

But for businessmen, it is the owner of money.

Now after more than two years of development, Shanyang's infrastructure tends to be complete, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the scenery is pleasant, and the entertainment services are abundant.

Everyone knows that the emperor will be going to tour the north in the next few years, that is to say, they will live in Shanyang for at least two or three months every year in the future, and buying a house is more cost-effective than a guest house.

And Sun Xiangfu had already thought of this section when he proposed the northern tour plan to Li Shimin, so the engineering team of tens of thousands of people under Zhou Chun did not only build ordinary houses, but also built hundreds of high-end villas, and the location of these villas was all close to the west of the Sanggan River, which was the most beautiful place in the city, adjacent to the government affairs district in the north.

And how to sell these villas is what Chu Suiliang, the assassin of the history, and Zhou Chun, the largest real estate developer in Shanyang, have to do.

In Sun Xiangfu's view, the previous model of relying on rules and regulations to manage the local government is outdated, and if you only rely on restricting the behavior of the people, even if the people are obedient, they can only starve to death at most.

As long as there is more output, the economy is better, and the people have food, drink, and clothing, they will certainly not be able to get into chaos.

Rich tycoons like the imperial court are one of the main sources of customers in Shanyang, as well as the Hu merchants in the Western Regions, they will also be a large consumer group, so the emperor's northern tour is an opportunity for Shanyang to develop the economy, and it must be seized.

Xuezheng, of course, is to learn a full set, today it is Zhou Chun who teaches a few future assassins, Sun Xiangfu asked his subordinates to prepare a banquet, and the dinner table is their class.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what the development of Shanyang depends on?"

Zhou Chun was ordered by Sun Xiangfu to be the keynote speaker of today's banquet, that was his honor, he was just a businessman, and he was able to preach to several officials above the fifth grade, which was almost impossible in the past.

"Naturally, it's because of the reasonable planning of the Metropolitan Governor and the magical planting technology of the farmer." Xu Jingzong took the lead in slapping the sycophant.

Hearing this, Zhou Chun naturally didn't dare to deny it, nodded and said, "This is natural, however, this is more general, if you look closely, you will find that it is the commercial system that supports the development of the entire city." ”

"Business system?"

Everyone is full of poetry and books, although Datang now intends to improve the status of businessmen, but all of a sudden, it is impossible for everyone to change their views on businessmen, so they disagree with Zhou Chun's statement that business supports Shanyang.

"Yes, it is the commercial system, because of real estate developers like me, the people of Shanyang can quickly settle down, because of coal, iron, tea, spirits, spices, leather goods, salted fish and bean paste, honey, grain, perfume, etc., and other commodities, the tribes on the grassland, the Hu merchants of the Western Regions, and the merchants of the Central Plains are willing to come to Shanyang to trade, so that the people of this city can earn income by manufacturing goods, so as to gain a foothold here for a long time."

After Zhou Chun explained the importance of business to a few people for the development of a place, Sun Xiangfu came out to speak, "Cangli knows etiquette, food and clothing are enough to know honor and disgrace, you wait in the future as a landlord, the most important thing to consider is to seek benefits for the people, only let them have enough food and clothing, our country will be stable and prosperous."

I asked Zhou Chun to tell you about the importance of business to local development, that is, you should first give up the prejudice against business in your heart, in my opinion, Shinong industry and commerce is not a ranking of status classes, but only a division of four occupations.

Without industry and commerce, no matter how large the output of agriculture is, it will be in vain, you may not know! If it weren't for me opening Wangjiang Tower, the things grown in Xingfu Village would not have been able to be sold at a good price, and now it is not Xingfu Village that has prepared cargo ships in advance to transport the melons and fruits grown by the people of Guanzhong to all parts of the country for sale, and the things grown by the people of Guanzhong may rot at home. If it weren't for the large amount of cotton grown by the people of Guanzhong in Xingfu Village, it would be processed into cotton clothes, quilts, and cotton cloth. It's still just a flower for people to look at.

Didn't I do these things, no one in the court took care of it at all, and no one saw such a problem?

There must be, but even if they see it, they won't care, because no matter what, they can make a profit, let the people keep things in their hands, they can buy them at a low price, and then hoard them, so that the demand in the market is not satisfied, and the output is not returned, which will hinder the development of the country.

And what we need to do as officials, that is, scholars, is to help the world, help farmers, industry, and commerce to straighten out the market, formulate orders, and do guidance and coordination, which is not nobler than other groups responsible for output, but the social division of labor is different. In the pre-Qin period, didn't the scholars who were not engaged in production also have a low status?

Put yourself in the right position, then let's talk about how to make the rapid development of the rule.

First of all, you have to sharpen the knife faster, now, in agriculture, industry, commerce, I Shanyang have made some progress, what should be sharpened, is the knife of the scholars, formulate a good order, do a good plan, optimize our trading links, attract others to come, sell our goods, is the way you sharpen the knife, grasp and solve these core problems, you will become sharper and sharper, for the country, will be more and more. ”

Sun Xiangfu is a later generation, he knows the benefits of taking the road of economic development, when a country is richer, its external attraction will be stronger, if the country can also be strong tolerance, to absorb all people, then, it is destined to become the core of the world.