"Father-in-law."

"Jian'er, why are you here?" Seeing that it was Han Jian, Tian Lingzi was a little puzzled. The other party didn't stay in Huazhou, why did he come here.

"There is a matter that the child feels necessary to report to his father-in-law, and if it is too late, I am afraid it will cause trouble." Han Jian said in a deep voice.

After returning to Chang'an, Han Jianbian was appointed as the Huazhou Assassin and Tongguan Defense Envoy to guard Tongguan, and Li Shitai, another fake son of Tian Lingzi, was named the Tongzhou Assassin History.

At this time, in Jingzhao Mansion, in addition to Jingzhao Mansion itself, only Huazhou and Tongzhou were still under the control of the imperial court.

Around Gyeongzhao Mansion, to the south is Shannan West Road; To the southeast is Shangzhou, and Yang Shouliang is currently here.

In addition, around Jingzhao Mansion, Li Changfu occupied Fengxiang (Li Changyan died of illness, and his brother Li Changyan took over as the envoy of Jiedu) and Zhu Mei occupied Suining, which were not very subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court, not to mention the area east of Tongguan.

Don't look at the fact that the imperial court has returned to Chang'an now, but the actual place under its jurisdiction is also around Jingzhao Mansion, which is also the area of the Huangchao disaster before. So as soon as he returned to Chang'an, Tian Lingzi appointed his cronies as the assassins of Huazhou and Tongzhou.

"What's the matter?"

"The child heard that the soldiers below during this period of time were a little dissatisfied because of the reduced rewards, and the children were worried that if it continued for a long time, it would cause a rebellion in the army."

Han Jian is not alarmist, and such a thing has not happened before, only when he was in Chengdu, because of the reward, the Yellow Head Army rebelled.

Now that I have just returned to Chang'an, if there is a rebellion again, it will be quite troublesome. So after learning that the army was beginning to be dissatisfied, Han Jian came to report to Tian Lingzi so that things would not develop to the point of uncontrollable.

"What?" Hearing this, Tian Lingzi couldn't help but think of the rebellion of the Yellow Head Army, and that time he almost asked him to report to Lord Yama.

He also knew the reason why the officers and men in the army were dissatisfied, but if the rewards were not reduced, the treasury would have run out of money.

At this time, the imperial court could only rely on the taxes of Jingzhao Mansion and several surrounding festival envoys, such as Fengxiang, Suining, and Yanyan were not rich places, and the festival envoys in these places did not hand over all the taxes.

Dongxierchuan and Shannan Xidao handed over the taxes before, and Li Ye even took out 700,000 yuan to the imperial court, which was also in place half a month ago.

But even then, the treasury has no money. Because the taxes in other places were not handed over at all, the imperial court moved back to Chang'an at this time, but it was no different from the small imperial court. And even Nishikawa has reduced the taxes it pays, let alone other places.

The tax revenue is not much, but at present, it is necessary to maintain the officials of the entire central court, as well as the salaries of tens of thousands of troops.

It's just that the Shence Army, in order to maintain its rule, is ready to expand after returning to Chang'an, but because of lack of money, it has only expanded by less than 10,000 people at present.

Even if there is 700,000 guan handed over by Li Ye, there is only less than 600,000 guan left in the treasury at present. This amount of money seems to be a lot, but it is obviously not enough to maintain such a large imperial court.

And Princess Changning is about to get married, according to Li Yi, the emperor's intention, not to mention that it is prosperous, but at least it must not lose the majesty of the royal family.

Now you have to use money everywhere, but Tian Lingzi doesn't have any way to get money, so naturally he can only reduce the rewards of the soldiers, and wait for the later taxes to come up. But I didn't expect that just after the reward was reduced, the soldiers below began to be dissatisfied, which is not a good thing.

"Father-in-law, is the treasury out of money?" Han Jian said tentatively.

Although Tian Lingzi did not answer positively, his expression proved that Han Jian guessed correctly.

"Shannan Xidao has money, and he was able to come up with 700,000 yuan last time, why not let him come up with some more money?" Anyway, Han Jian also offended King Shou to death, so it doesn't matter if he continues to play to the death and offend.

"This is not a long-term solution, Shannan West Road is not a rich place after all, King Shou has just taken out 700,000 yuan, and it is not appropriate to force it too much at this time. If you force the opponent, it will be a troublesome matter. Tian Lingzi shook his head and disagreed.

forced King Shou to rebel, and he really didn't have a way to take King Shou. As long as King Shou stubbornly guards a few Shu roads, he can only watch. At that time, the connection with the East and West Erchuan will be cut off again, and the taxes of the East and West Erchuan will not be escorted to Chang'an, so for the time being, Tian Lingzi does not want to force Li Ye too much.

"Father, the child knows that there is a place where it is rich. The festival in the river made Wang Chongrong monopolize Anyi and Xie County, and only donated a part of the salt for the state every year, but most of the profits were in the pocket.

According to children's estimates, the salt ponds in these two counties may make a profit of up to one million yuan or even more per year. If the salt ponds in these two counties can be obtained and nationalized, the problem of the empty treasury can be greatly alleviated. Tian Lingzi's other son, Kuang You, said.

Millions? Hearing this number, Tian Lingzi's heart jumped, if this is the case, this must be taken as everything.

In the past, the successive envoys of the river festival only handed over 3,000 times of salt to the imperial court every year, and the rest was used as military salaries. Therefore, the imperial court did not know how much profit the salt ponds in the two places in the river were profitable.

Listening to the words of his righteous son, Tian Lingzi remembered that Hezhong had fought for so many years since the Huangchao Rebellion, and there were many victories and few defeats, if there was no strong financial support, how could he persist until now. It seems that this Wang Chongrong has indeed made a lot of profits on the salt pond.

"It's not a simple matter to get Wang Chongrong to hand over the salt pond, and these festival envoys are not very obedient to the will of the imperial court now." Tian Lingzi said in a deep voice.

"Father-in-law, the child has a plan." Han Jian hurriedly said, which made Kuang You very dissatisfied with him, "The righteous father can salute first and then the soldiers, and let Wang Chongrong hand over the salt pond in the name of the imperial court first, if Wang Chongrong does not obey, he will issue an order to transfer Wang Chongrong and let the righteous father's henchmen serve as the envoy of this festival." ”

"Wang Chongrong won't be so obedient." Kuang You dismantled the platform like a demonstration.

"Then in the name of the imperial court, an order was issued to gather troops from Fengxiang, Yanyan, Jingyuan, Suining and other places to crusade against Wang Chongrong. I believe that they must also be very interested in the salt pond in the river, and the children do not believe that Wang Chongrong can withstand the attack of the army of Zhuzhen.

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In this way, the father-in-law can not only gain access to the river, but also weaken the strength of the towns, killing two birds with one stone. ”

Tian Lingzi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Han Jian with satisfaction, "This method is good, you must get the salt pond in the river." If Wang Chongrong is interested, our family can let him change places as a festival envoy, if the other party does not obey, then don't blame our family for being polite. ”

Tian Lingzi naturally knew why Han Jian was so active, and it was estimated that he was also greedy for the position of the envoy of the festival in the river. This is not a bad thing, as long as you are faithful to him, what does it matter if you let the other party be the one who is in this moderation? However, the top priority is to find a way to get the salt pond in the river.

Li Ye doesn't know the course of history, and so far, he hasn't changed much because of him. The main reason is that his current strength cannot affect the course of history.

However, Tian Lingzi's desire to clean up Wang Chongrong is a good thing for him, at least he can clean up for the time being.

And it's not just this good news recently, under the escort of more than 2,000 cavalry he sent, the war horses that traded with Tubo have also been transported back in batches.

The reason why so many cavalry was sent was mainly because he was worried that the Tubo people would eat black, and it was also to deter the Tubo people. When they saw the cavalry of the Tiance Army wearing well-armored armor and riding tall horses, the Tibetan tribes with shabby weapons were really shocked.

Although in terms of horseback riding, the Tiance army may not be as good as these Tibetans, after all, these nomads can basically ride horses since childhood. But only in terms of equipment and momentum, it is even more important for the Tiance Army.

After all, the Uighur horses were taller than the Tibetan horses, and their momentum was naturally stronger.

With the deterrence of the cavalry of the Tiance Army, the transaction naturally went smoothly.

As soon as the 8,000 war horses arrived, Li Ye distributed the 8,000 horses to the Tiance Army, so that the cavalry of the six infantry compartments were all matched. The surplus war horses were used by Li Ye to strengthen his own personal soldiers, and expanded the team of personal soldiers to the scale of 4,000 people, so that each of his personal soldiers had war horses.

Except for most of those horses, Li Ye distributed most of them to the rear compartment of the Tiance Army and the Shenji Battalion, and the rest were sold to the outside.

In addition, Li Ye also asked people to find an open land in the territory of Xingyuan Mansion and established a pasture for breeding horses and mules.

Xingyuan Mansion is not suitable for grazing, but it is no problem to only use it for small-scale breeding of fine war horses. Compared with war horses, Li Ye is more interested in mules.

Mules are not nothing, this thing appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it is all as a rare thing, it is rare, even in the Tang Dynasty. Mules became draft animals on a large scale, or in the Ming Dynasty.

Although mules could not be used as war horses, they were better than horses and donkeys in carrying goods. The fecundity of mules and donkeys and mules is extremely poor, but the vitality and disease resistance are strong, the feed utilization rate is high, the physique is strong, the limbs and hooves are strong, the staying power is rich, and it is easy to control, so that the service life can be as long as 20~30 years, and the service value is higher than that of horses and donkeys.

Therefore, if there is a mule, it can completely replace the pack horse in the army and become the logistics backbone of the army.

However, when Li Ye's side was secretly developing his strength rapidly, there was always someone to find something for him to do, and Gao Renhou, who was not in the south, finally couldn't help but make a move on Jianzhou after enduring it for several months.

After all, Li Ye had dealt with Gao Renhou, and he also knew that this person was more arrogant and looked down on him and Chen Jingxuan. Li Ye actually controls the gateway to Dongchuan - Jianzhou, and Gao Renhou will naturally hold a grudge, otherwise Dongchuan would not have sent troops when the three states rebelled before.

It's just that Li Ye didn't expect that when Gao Renhou hadn't completely unified Dongchuan, he would start to attack Jianzhou. Did your protagonist aura appear? If you don't trouble others, others will take the initiative to come to your door.

At the beginning of April, Gao Renhou sent generals to take advantage of Zhang Shi'an's birthday, with the assistance of his rebellious Jianzhou generals, to send 5,000 troops to attack Jianzhou. Zhang Shi'an was defeated, and after resisting for a day, he could only lead hundreds of his own soldiers to retreat to Jianmen Pass, and then ask for help from the Tiance Army.

When the news reached Xingyuan Mansion, all the high-level officials of Shannan West Road were greatly surprised.

Now that the imperial court has returned to Chang'an, at this time, Gao Renhou suddenly attacked Jianzhou, should the Tiance army send troops to help, or not send troops?

(End of chapter)