While thinking about it, Zhou Kong quietly entered the account:

"What are you thinking?"

Bailiyan was busy coming back to his senses and answered:

"Oh, the king has just called, and a fleet of more than two hundred armpits has appeared two or three hundred miles north of Sangbei County, heading east, and I wonder what their intentions are for this trip."

"The Xian army now has more than 200 warships, and with the fortresses on both sides of the river as a cover, it should not be vulnerable to a battle."

Bai Liyan shook her head and said:

"The enemy who came this time has twenty ironclad canning ships, and the artillery has a long range, and even if the frontal enemy can win the battle, our army will pay a considerable price, and the enemy must not be underestimated. By the way, are you here? ”

"I want 1,500 stone of flour, 2,000 stone of refined white rice, 100 stone each of bacon, bacon, and sausage, 50 stone of vegetable oil, 20 stone of salt, 10 stone of sugar, and 2 stone of candy."

Bai Liyan was taken aback when she heard this, and hurriedly asked her:

"What do you want so much food for?"

"Eighty-seven villages in nine counties including Liang County under the rule of Yongping City, nearly 100,000 people have fled, and there are tens of thousands of people in Yongping City, the two together are 200,000 people, half of them have no fixed place to eat, and the war continues to this day, these people have no land and no support, and their livelihood is worrying for a long time, I want to take out some military rations to help the victims."

"This ......"

Zhou Kong's request inevitably made Bailiyan embarrassed, although Liang was a wealthy prince, but its system was not perfect, the law was not perfect, and the relevant social mechanism was completely absent, and the war could not take care of the life and death of the local people. Moreover, it is still a local attack, and it is too late to rush for life, and disaster relief is simply unrealistic.

The Xianjun should have provided all the expenses for the troops by the Liang State, but so far the Liang State has neither given a penny nor a grain of grain, and now the Xianjun is asking the Xianjun to take out a few thousand stones of food for foreign disaster relief, which is unreasonable.

Although Xianguo is rich, the reserves of the warehouse are not falling from the sky, and they are not used to be good and good. These are all material wealth created by the people of Xianguo, without any return, and they are used to give alms to unrelated interest groups, and he Bailiyan can't do this.

But his wife's face was unavoidable, and after some weighing, he continued to say unfinished words:

"Okay, let people open porridge sheds inside and outside the city, and you can't let the local people eat like this, you let people go to the three counties of Liangguo Guanling, Peishui, and Pingnan to raise enough rice, vegetable varieties and farm tools, and after buying, they will be distributed to the local people, and those whose homes are south of Yongping will be repatriated to the local government, and those whose homes are north of Yongping will be evacuated to the counties and villages south of Yongping, and they will organize farming on the spot. In the coming year, the agricultural tools and seeds issued will be repaid with grain. ”

"Why don't you ship it from within the country, isn't it convenient?"

Zhou Kong was puzzled, and Bai Liyan shook his head:

"From the country only to transport seeds and farm tools, it is not cost-effective to use transportation capacity, unless you use Cao, which is slow and needs to be detoured, so it is too late. If you use a car, it is too late to transport the wounded and ammunition, and there is no time to transport such unrelated and identical things, and the cost will not be too low.

Besides, there are some things that can be done outside, and the king and the cabinet will turn a blind eye, and if they are done at home, the king will be dissatisfied. I'll give you the approval right away, so go ahead and do it quickly. ”

Bai Liyan wrote down the approval note, and Zhou Kong said happily after reading it:

"I knew you'd agree."

Bai Liyan said with a calm face:

"It's just this time, don't take it as an example, you can remember it."

"Remember, then I'll go."

After Zhou Kong left, Raglan said secretly:

"You want the local population to become a supply center for the Xian army."

"Yes, with the current situation, Liang Guo himself is difficult to protect, even if he has money, he will not give a penny or a grain of grain, even if he gives, it is a symbolic comfort.

The expenses of the 100,000-strong Xian army were not small compared to the convenience of logistics and economic costs at home, as well as the expenses of medical treatment and casualties.

The local population is more than 200,000, and if you include Gyeonggi Dongjun, there are more than 700,000 people, and the war cannot be fought for a while, so we can make appropriate use of the local economic potential and reduce the supply pressure of the Xian army.

In addition, it may be necessary to garrison troops for a long time in the future, and the Liang State is the key point of charge, and it is inevitable that the princes will send heavy troops to the Liang State after the alliance, and establish a set of local supply and production systems in advance, which will be beneficial for the Liang State to send troops to sweep the west coast of the Changsun Peninsula in the future.

In addition, there has been no valuable news recently that has been monitored. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Of course, armpits, are there?"

"There are not too many, there is constant shelling every day, and the equipment capacity of the cargo ship is limited, and it is not possible to carry out high-level filtration, so there is no way to obtain information about the war zone. But didn't you send an empty boat, and when you are in place, bombard the howitzer positions, and without long-range fire, they will be honest. ”

"It's easy for you to say, it's so easy to drop bombs at a height of 1,000 meters."

"Then it can't be helped, but it's better than nothing, isn't it."

Bailiyan transferred a 655 type airboat from China, which was a prototype built last year, with a load of 105 and a theoretical maximum speed of 119 miles under the standard load.

For this reason, the airboat can only use the mechanical gyroscope to locate and navigate, but there must be precision errors in machining, and no matter how precise the machining is, there are errors, so it is necessary to constantly correct the course to offset the error.

At the same time, affected by the wind direction, air density resistance, air shock wave and navigation correction, the actual speed is much lower, and the four six-cylinder deflagration internal combustion engines do not work continuously 24 hours a day, and need to be rotated uninterruptedly, and the actual speed is much slower due to indirect shutdown for repair and maintenance inspection.

Bailiyan planned to use air boats to carry out high-altitude bombardment of axillary howitzer positions in order to destroy the threat of ground fire to the Xian army.

But he is also well aware that the effectiveness of the airships is worrying because they have caused more crew deaths than they have killed their enemies.

Bai Liyan didn't expect the airship to achieve any brilliant results, he just wanted to use it to show the armpit that humans were fully capable of striking it in the air. One today, ten tomorrow.

After pondering for a moment, Bai Liyan picked up the phone again and made a long-distance call to Zhen Kuo.

Zhen Kuo succeeded to the throne in 654 when the war began, and when the Liang State mourned in 647, Bailiyan instructed him to resume production at home, maintain the status quo abroad, and seize the time to recuperate.

In 650, after getting Peijun, Chunjiang and Shangxue three counties, the strength of Sun Guo was restored, after three or four years of cultivation, its finances were still not restored to the national strength of the four counties, and it has been relying on the economic blood transfusion of Xian for a long time.

Liang Guo was in a state of flux, the market was in serious disorder, prices were fluctuating, the aristocracy and wealthy people hoarded a large number of commercial goods, tightening the supply of goods, Baili Yan expected that Zhou Kong would not be able to purchase seeds and farm tools smoothly, so he could only get some from Sun Guo.

Zhen Kuo agreed very happily, and happily agreed to Bailiyan's request.

"Yongxing Hou, please rest assured, the widow will deliver the improved seeds and farm tools to Gyeonggi County within 20 days and hand them over to the Xian army."

"Sun Wang Meiyi Benhou is grateful, and he will be rewarded when he comes to Japan."

"Hehaha...... Yongxing Hou has the grace of rebuilding in my grandson's country, and the widow is to help each other, and it is difficult to repay the grace of Guixian to restore the country. The widow heard that there are still four beauties under the knee of Yongxing Hou who have not yet come out of the cabinet, and I don't know if Yongxing Hou can give the widow a thin face to be a matchmaker. ”

Hearing this, Bai Liyan finally understood that Zhen Kuo's kindness was obviously not given in vain, although the amount of seeds and farm tools was not large, and it was not as affordable as the import of Xianguo for so many years, but it was a personal discount.

After dealing with him for nearly ten years, Bai Liyan knows that this person is a person who is quite good at political investment, and when he suddenly mentions marriage, he must have a deeper intention.

But now that he is the lord of a country, it is not okay to refuse clearly, and it seems that it is not appropriate to drag, Zhen Kuo is a smart person, and he knows very well the purpose of Bailiyan to help Sun Guo, and he also knows very well that the rise of Xianguo is irreversible.

In order to achieve the greatest political interests of the country, even if it drags on now, it will still try every means to grind hard in the future, and repeatedly refusing will have a negative impact on public opinion in the outside world. It's good that the king of a country has been a matchmaker again and again, and this face can't be left unpaid, not to mention that Sun Guo is the key object of his support, which will have a great impact on the future pattern.

Quickly weighing the pros and cons, Bai Liyan took Zhen Kuo's words and said:

"I don't know who King Sun wants to be a matchmaker for?"

"How about the widow's brother Yiyang Hou."

"Oh...... It turned out to be Yiyang Hou... In this case, how about discussing it after Liang Guo understands it during the war? ”

"The widow also has this intention, so according to the words of the Marquis of Yongxing, wait for the war of the Liang State to be settled."

Yiyang Hou Zhentai, Zhen Kuo's half-brother and half-mother, is 21 years old this year and is properly married. Zhen Kuo acted as a matchmaker for Zhen Tai, obviously not simply out of political and economic considerations, but more likely to take the opportunity to introduce some technology from Xianguo as a dowry.

In 648, when he was only thirteen years old, he was sent to Xianguo to study technology and political management, along with the young sons and daughters of the craftsmen and magnates of the Sun Kingdom. Zhen Tai and other noble young children were arranged to enter the special class of the Chenling Middle School and received a five-year course education, and they had a deep understanding of basic science and basic mathematics.

When Zhen Tai returned to China, it was when Jiang Hai died and Jiang Yu ascended the throne, and the exposure of Yongxing, Ruitian, and Xuanyun was more known to Sun Guo. Zhen Kuo acted as a matchmaker for him, obviously hoping that Bailiyan could export some technical benefits and introduce some talents.

Hanging up Zhen Kuo's phone, Bai Liyan thought about the value of this marriage, he has five daughters who are now suitable for leaving the cabinet, among which Bai Li Hongyan is the youngest, just turning sixteen. But he promised Lord Qiao that Hong Yan would not marry far away, and of course it was impossible to marry abroad.

Therefore, only the four daughters who can marry are Baili Jiao, Baili Xia, Bai Li Nan, and Baili Manman, and the two daughters of Jiao and Xia are the most outstanding. Nan'er follows her mother Chunfang, gentle and virtuous, and likes fabric sewing. As for Baili Barbarian, his temperament is quite similar to Tang Tao, although he has a beauty billet, he can't go to the elegant hall, and this marriage really makes him tricky.

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