Everything in Shanyang City was new to these first-time Hu merchants, they couldn't imagine that there would be such a tall city in a grassland land on the border, however, when they entered the city gate, they were even more surprised.

This is a completely different city style from other Han Chinese cities, there are no tall walls in the city, there are no carved wooden buildings, a straight cement road leads to the center of the city, a water of brick buildings on both sides of the road neatly arranged, after the gate is opened, these houses are directly a kind of street shops.

There are many shops selling hot milk tea, cakes, pot helmets, noodles, pastries, dried fruit snacks, before coming to Shanyang, they have heard that there is a commercial street in Shanyang, all kinds of goods are available, is this commercial street open at the city gate?

After walking less than 500 steps, these people know that this is not the case, this mode of living on the street and opening shops, all the streets in Shanyang City are the same, these shops are only for the residents of the city to consume, the real commercial street, the scale may be even larger than this.

Coming to the location along the Sanggan River in the center of the city, which is the concentration area of the inn, the reason why Sun Xiangfu designed it this way is because he wants all the merchants who come to Shanyang to visit at least half of the city, even if you don't need to buy and ship, can't the snacks and tea along the street attract you? No matter how big or small the consumption is, it can become a lot if it is a small amount, when the flow of people in Shanyang is large, even if it is a shop selling milk tea along the street, it is not impossible to make a few profits a day.

Regardless of the grade of the inn in Shanyang City, the design is very humane, there is a large warehouse with special inventory, and there are all kinds of forage to help feed horses and camels.

The most humanized design is that everything is clearly marked with a price, and it is written that there will be no additional charge, and when you are at the door, you can decide whether to move in according to your own economic strength.

Although the Hu businessmen are rich, but they are more frugal, after seeing the low-end, mid-range inn preparation, are happy to choose to stay, because even if it is a low-end inn, the accommodation conditions are definitely not worse than many big inns in Chang'an, and the price is much cheaper than Chang'an, after all, this is a border land.

They didn't know that the reason why Sun Xiangfu lowered the prices of these low-end inns was to satisfy their psychology.

What is the price of coal in Chang'an? What is the price of coal here? What is the price of forage in Chang'an? What is the price of forage here?

In terms of raw materials, it is more than three times cheaper than Chang'an. Then there is the disaster and famine in Guanzhong, and prices have risen. Of course, even in normal times, the price of Chang'an has always been higher than the overall level of Datang, and it is not easy to live in Chang'an, which is not a lie.

Shanyang's price of this kind of basic service items for eating, drinking, housing and transportation is not high, because the majority of the goods are in the commodity transaction, and Sun Xiangfu has done these foreshadowing, just to make them like Shanyang's business environment, so as to create business opportunities and sell a large number of goods made by Shanyang.

Seeing that the Hu merchants lived in the inn and settled down, Sun Xiangfu and his subordinates went to the military camp in the north of the city, anyway, it was still early for dinner, after these Hu merchants stayed in the inn, they should take a stroll around the city, and after they learned about Shanyang, Sun Xiangfu's commodity promotion meeting would be better, and now, he will first finalize the business with Li Jing.

"General Li, have you planned everything?"

"Well, this raid on Jieli is very important, and Your Majesty has a secret decree for you."

Only Li Jing, Su Dingfang, and Sun Xiangfu were in the barracks, and Sun Xiangfu unfolded the holy decree brought by Li Jing and looked at it carefully.

Raid Jieli, must be thunderous, in the case of no one thought of it, otherwise it is easy to fail, yes, Li Jing will not send troops this time to send reinforcements and the like, that is, even logistics, Li Shimin also asked Sun Xiangfu to send it secretly, this is Li Shimin's first request to Sun Xiangfu.

In addition, he highly affirmed a series of things that Sun Xiangfu did in Shanyang, and while fully trusting him, he put forward a second request to him, that is, to maintain the relationship with the Xue Yantuo Department and the Hui Ministry, no matter what, Datang cannot conflict with them at this time, because Hebei Province is not stable.

Also affected by the Guanzhong disaster, the northeast border of Goryeo, United Murwei, Jian, Xia and other departments, with bad intentions, this may be related to Wang Lin's series of plans, there is no news of Feng Ang and Zhao Long on the sea, and I don't know if the matter has been resolved.

In addition, Li Shimin also urged him to establish the military system of the Anbei Protectorate as soon as possible, such a large territory, after so long, only a few thousand soldiers and horses, it is too unseemly, once a big conflict breaks out, in the case of Chang'an not taking care of Shanyang, everything he did in Shanyang is likely to be to make a wedding dress for others.

In this regard, Sun Xiangfu feels that what Li Shimin said is reasonable, the nomads outside the customs are not all so easy to talk to, there is no army in hand, if you develop the economy too well, people will be red-eyed, but he is also suffering from the lack of population base, and he does not want to interrupt the development of Shanyang, so that the people and craftsmen will put down their hoes and tools to join the army.

Therefore, he can only wait for the sale of land and the relocation of the people to be finalized, and then recruit soldiers from the serf children of the family, which he has planned a long time ago, as long as they are willing to move the people, they will be used by Sun Xiangfu, just like Sun Xiangfu used the Wang family soldiers before, in order to protect the land and land, they have no choice.

This kind of situation of young soldiers may continue after next summer, which can't help but remind him of the importance of Dongzhu who lives in the mansion, her brother is currently the biggest force on the grassland, and having a good relationship with her should put a lot of pressure on Xue Yantuo's side.

After reading Li Shimin's secret decree, Sun Xiangfu burned it easily, and then looked at Su Dingfang and said, "Bother General Su to open the arsenal and hand over the grain and grass prepared by our Anbei Protectorate and the weapons and equipment to General Li!" In addition, before the battle of the raid on Jieli was over, you and your 3,000 cavalry were deployed by General Lee. ”

For military strategy, Sun Xiangfu has no qualifications to teach Li Jing, he only knows that the soldiers eat better, wear warmer, and equip more advanced and sophisticated equipment, which is definitely true, yes, some things developed by Happy Village have all been mass-produced by him, and at present, there is no problem at all in assembling Li Jing's more than 10,000 people.

"The old man wants to see what good things you have hidden in the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate." Li Jing smiled and said, of course, he wanted to check, but not out of curiosity.

As the commander of the first army, he must know all the power he has so that he can use it flexibly in war.

After a while, the three of them arrived at the arsenal of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, where Sun Xiangfu was the chief official, but he was handed over to Su Dingfang for specific management, after the door of the treasury was pushed open, only the three of them entered, and there were rows of neatly placed shelves.

"This is, telescope? This is also among the items handed over? ”

Li Jing has a telescope given to him by Sun Xiangfu here, usually very precious, he made a big leather case and hid it around his waist, I don't know, I thought it was a weapon, but when he entered the armory, he saw no less than a dozen telescopes on the shelves at a glance.

"That's right, the R&D craftsmen of Happy Village lived up to expectations, fired transparent glass, made this kind of telescope, we no longer have to rely on expensive and scarce crystal ore in the future, but the firing of glass is also extremely difficult, this is all the number they made, only twenty, the general can give one to each officer above the battalion colonel, how to flexibly use the function of the telescope in the war, I believe that General Li has already made a bamboo in his chest, this is not necessary for me to say, but the importance of this thing to the Tang Dynasty The general should knowLoss is not tolerated, so severe punishment and custody mechanisms must be put in place. ”

"Well, the old man knows that no matter what, these telescopes will be brought back to you with all the mustaches and tails."

Li Jing said, eager to hang these telescopes on his body immediately.

However, when his eyes looked behind the telescope, his eyes narrowed again, it was Sun Xiangfu's crossbow that was used a lot in the defense of Mayi City.

"So many repeaters?"

"Of course, we have tens of thousands of cavalry on the expedition, and there are only 5,000 repeaters here, each with three arrow magazines, and in addition, a thousand boxes of spare arrows, a total of 100,000 arrows."

Su Dingfang reported according to the prepared amount.

5,000 repeating crossbows, 100,000 arrows, this is to let yourself use his kind of hooligan play?

Thinking about the picture under the city of Mayi, Li Jing shuddered, the picture was too sour.

Fine iron cavalry guns, sabers, and new-style saddles, these are all originally prepared by the expeditionary force, Sun Xiangfu does not need to build them, what he got for Li Jing is a new type of military ration.

"General Li, inside these boxes, all are meat sauce, soybean paste made of yak meat on the grassland, with dogwood and diced salted fish added to it, and the taste is very good, in addition, there are many naan cakes and spirits that can be preserved for a winter, the taste is full, and there are many nutritious cooked dried beans, and the soldiers have thick cotton armor, plus these food and wine, they can survive for a long time in the snow······"

"With these things you provide, why worry about the benefits that can't be extinguished."

Looking at the room full of treasures, Li Jing said happily.

"Then I wish General Li a successful start in advance, and without further ado, General Li can immediately let the soldiers adapt to the training and use of these new equipment and military rations, and I will have to deal with those Hu merchants."

"By the way, I still have some personal matters to mention to you, our Anbei Protectorate is short of people! Jieli, if you can capture it alive, you must capture it alive, in this way, those people under him will definitely not resist to the death, if you can get a part of it to enrich my Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, the boy's investment in the general is not in vain. ”

Li Jing smiled when he heard this, "Sending so many good things to the old man is something else to ask for, okay!" If this battle can be successful, the young captives can give you some first. ”