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Chapter Twenty-Five: The Visit of the Samurai

Outside the political hall of the Tang Imperial City, a group of forbidden army warriors stood straddling with swords, their eyes did not squint, and they were majestic. In the political hall, the chief officials of the three provinces, the left servant of Shangshu shot Pei Lian, the right servant of Shangshu shot, the subordinate province accepted Chen Shuda, and Xiao Yu of Zhongshu was noisy in the political hall, blowing his beard and glaring at his eyes, his face was red and his ears were red, and he could not be separated.

The Sui Dynasty placed five provinces, Shangshu, Menxia, Neishi, Secretary, and Neishi, the secretary province was similar to the later pavilion, and the Neishi Province was a special eunuch institution, and the three provinces of Shangshu, Menxia, and Neishi presided over the central power. The three provinces restrained each other and were jointly responsible to the emperor. Among them, the decision-maker is a high-ranking official of the internal history and the official is called the internal history order; The deliberators are high-ranking officials under the door; The institutions that deal with daily government affairs are Shangshu Province, Zhishang Shu Ling, and one person each from the left and right servants.

After the death of Dou Wei, after Pei Lin and Li Yuan discussed, the Inner History Province was renamed Zhongshu Province, with Xiao Yu and Xiao Shiwen as the first Zhongshu servant of the Tang Dynasty.

The first thing Xiao Yu did when he took office was to prepare for Li Shimin's expedition. According to the system, the province is responsible for day-to-day government affairs, the province of Zhongshu makes decisions, and the province is responsible for auditing.

Since Shang Shuling was given to Li Shimin, the left naked clothes of the Tang Dynasty generation became

The policy formulated by Xiao Yu was to ask the Ministry of Civil Affairs to prepare an army of 100,000 to consume a year's money and grain, including 1.5 million stone grain, 500,000 stone forage, 200,000 pieces of cloth, and the Ministry of Industry needed to make 5 million crossbow arrows, 3 million arrows, plus 30,000 horizontal knives, and 50,000 sets of armor.

Chen Shuda was anxious at that time, it was not that Datang couldn't get so much money, food and equipment. Last year and this year, Guanzhong Dafeng, the tax revenue alone amounted to more than 3 million stones, and Bashu and Hexi could also release 1.6 million stones and 400,000 stones into the customs after three months. Food is there, but it's too difficult to transport so much food.

In this era, the ordinary transportation capacity is limited, and the two-wheeled carriage is two thousand pounds tall. However, the Tang Dynasty could always mobilize more two-wheeled carriages than about 5,000, and if they were all transported by two-wheeled carriages, only 1.5 million stone of grain would require as many as 75,000 carriages, and the gap was too great. Even if 5,000 carriages are transported day and night, in a year, one carriage can only transport more than 50 times, and there is still a gap of two-thirds.

What's more, it is simply wishful thinking to transport materials such as forage, armor, blades, spears, and fierce fire oil, which is simply wishful thinking for Datang's poor transportation capacity.

The transportation capacity of the Tang Dynasty has improved by leaps and bounds, mainly because four years after Zhenguan, Li Jing attacked Yinshan at night, defeated the Eastern Turks, and obtained millions of cattle and horses, and at that time the Tang Dynasty court was able to mobilize hundreds of thousands of chariots and horses.

Xiao Yu Xiao Shiwen stood up, poured a cup of tea for Chen Shuda and Pei Lian, first served it to Pei Lin on the table in front of him, and the back end to Uncle Chen, and said eloquently: "Wang Shichong's rise as a military lord is by no means a waste of fame, his Jianghuai soldiers have successively defeated Liu Yuanjin, Zhu Xie, Meng Rang and other traitors, and even Li Mi, who defeated Yu Wenhua and hundreds of thousands of elite Xiaoguo troops under his command, was also defeated under his hands, and the King of Qin sent troops to fight Wang Shichong, 100,000 foot cavalry army, no less, soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first, we are the prime minister, the food of the king, If you can't worry about the king, wouldn't it be a plain corpse meal, so what face is there to rank in the court? ”

Chen Shuda was also speechless, and he didn't understand the truth that Xiao Yu could understand. If he didn't even understand this, Li Yuan wouldn't let him replace Liu Wenjing and become a Nayan and rank in the prime minister's country. However, it is one thing to understand, but it is another thing to be able to do it. Chen Shuda said slowly: "Then how to solve the transportation problem?" Bashu Mountain is high and far away, even if it is recruited, it will take too long, delaying the major event of the Eastern Expedition, but there are only more than 670,000 households left in Guanzhong, except for the 100,000 army, how many young and strong can be left? I'm afraid that there are less than 50,000 people, and 50,000 people may not be able to complete the task of transporting heavy loads......"

Pei Lin raised his eyelids, if Hedong had not been ravaged by Liu Wuzhou and mourned all over the wilderness, he could have requisitioned 100,000 people from Hedong and 780,000 stone grain to easily complete this transportation task. It's just a pity that now crying is heard almost everywhere in Hedong, and there are new graves in villages and villages, where can manpower be mobilized?

At this moment, an attendant entered the political hall and respectfully saluted Pei Lian, Xiao Yu, and Chen Shuda: "Pei Xiang, Xiao Xiang, Chen Xiang, and Your Majesty are summoned to meet you in the Ganlu Palace." ”

Pei Lin stepped forward silently, and flicked his sleeves. The big sleeve seemed to inadvertently touch the lower hand of the waiter, but the waiter obviously felt a sinking in his hand, as a walk in the palace, he had already understood the way Pei Lin handled people, Pei Lone's handwriting has always been not small, and he felt that the weight in his hand was at least ten taels or more.

Even if it's silver, it's ten dollars. He worked in the palace for three years.

The waiter smiled with a smile on his face: "What does Pei Xiang want to know?" ”

Pei Lin can be in front of Li Yuan, and the saint is undiminished. It is absolutely impossible to say that he is Jian Zai in the emperor's heart, the key is that Pei Lin has a close relationship with the palace, and he can know in advance whether Li Yuan is in a good mood or not, as well as what Li Yuan is thinking in his heart. If you want to say that you want to be interested and figure out the Sacred Heart, Pei Lin is definitely unique in Datang.

Pei Lin lowered his voice and asked, "Your Majesty is calling, what is the matter?" ”

The chamberlain smiled and said: "So that Pei Xiang knows that the slave vaguely heard His Royal Highness the King of Qin mention the Eastern Expedition and transportation." ”

When Chen Shuda and Xiao Yu heard this, their hearts became even more depressed. The two of them are both new to the stage, and their foundation is not stable, if they can't even do this important thing now, I'm afraid they won't be able to convince the public, you must know that the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, there are many people who want to be the real prime minister.

When Pei Lin heard this, he motioned for the attendant to lead the way in front.

Chen Shuda and Xiao Yu followed closely behind, but the two of them were uneasy in their hearts, in stark contrast to Pei Lian, who was full of confidence and had an unfazed face.

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It is undeniable that Li Daozhen's money was delivered in a very timely manner. At least it can meet Chen Ying's current expenses, Chen Ying is preparing for such a project for the first time, and naturally acts according to the habits of later generations.

Costing should be done very carefully. Of course, Li Shimin didn't see that he really wanted to build a dock fort when he came to the construction site, but Chen Ying was still very careful. Everything is mainly based on preparations such as repairing ditches and burning bricks and tiles, after all, winter in Guanzhong comes early, and it should snow in a month or two at most. At that time, there was no way to carry out outdoor works.

On this day, Chen Ying and Ge Tong modified the mechanical parts of the convertible, especially the lubrication of the bearings, so as to reduce friction and improve efficiency, just when Chen Ying and Ge Tong were too busy. Hearing Chen Jinyong's report, a distinguished guest came to the door.

Chen Ying knew that it was very impolite for him to go to meet a guest with oily hands and disheveled clothes. Just take a bath and put on new clothes, Lan'er heard that a distinguished guest came to the door, so she also got up in good spirits, dressed neatly, and came to the main courtyard to serve.

Chen Ying was dressed up, but the two carriages slowly drove into Chen Ying's courtyard. A thin man, dressed in a purple uniform, wearing a dark soft foot hood, black official boots on his feet, and a goldfish belt around his waist.

Chen Ying can be sure that he has not seen this person, he can wear purple belt gold, and he is definitely a member of the third grade or above in Datang. Just when Chen Ying secretly guessed who the person who came, the thin man bowed his hand and said, "General Chen is fine, Shi Tong took the liberty to disturb him." ”