Chapter 084: Blade

After Luo Tong took office, he restructured his 10,000 soldiers, and he still had the previous rules, asking for soldiers and not generals. Although this move violates the system, there is such a big Buddha as Li Shimin behind it, and no one will have nothing to draw.

Luo Tong's eyes fell on Princess Yaochi, Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Chuliang, Almaty, and Li Yesi, these five people were undoubtedly his most trusted henchmen.

After the routine morning meeting, Luo Tong began to carry out a drastic restructuring of the left guard.

The decisive battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks was about to begin, and he attached great importance to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. He knew that if he wanted to make a career in the military, personal courage and wisdom were essential, but it was equally important to have a strong force with enough strength.

The real powerhouse is made by training, and what Luo Tong has to do now is to race against time to give these soldiers enough training time, and they need to be redistributed, to completely disrupt the original habitual system, and everything is overturned and started over.

In the past, some people have long jumped out to refute, who wants to mess up their rhythm for no reason. Now no one objected, and the soldiers understood that the more Luo Tong moved, the more it meant that he had enough ambition to make a career in the left guard. They believe that Luo Tong can lead them to develop together, and everyone is full of energy.

Regarding this kind of major rectification, the officials of the former Modao Army all participated in it, discussed the advantages and disadvantages, and expressed their opinions. It took almost a morning for Luo Tongcai to synthesize everyone's wisdom and draw up a preliminary plan.

"That's it for now!" Luo Tong raised his waist for a long time, looking at the enthusiasm of the discussion atmosphere, and the people who were still unfinished showed a happy smile, they are the superiors who have the motivation to drive the people below to work harder.

After lunch, these new officials arranged a new mode of operation according to the decision of the meeting, and for a time the entire army was busy.

Luo Tong was not idle, reviewing the accumulated official documents. Take the official documents aside, dispose of those that can be handled, and throw those that can't be handled to Qin Qiong a headache, and if you can't do it, throw it to the military department!

Luo Tong's big move did not have much impact on the well-trained ordinary soldiers! In less than a week of running-in, the normal rhythm was restored, the black sheep were eliminated, and the combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

The Modao Formation is a sharp weapon to deal with the Turkic cavalry, and Li Shimin has high hopes, Li Shimin is still very optimistic about Luo Tong's ability, and also hopes that Luo Tong can really train a large-scale Modao army against the Turkic cavalry. Of course, there is no way to take it out.

The newly cast Mo knives are all in place, the Fuyuan crossbow can basically be satisfied, and the war horses are also ridden by the whole army, which can be described as extremely luxurious!

Regarding the quota of war horses, there was also a turmoil, although the Tang Dynasty attaches great importance to horse politics, but the dynasty has hundreds of thousands of troops, who doesn't want to get more war horses. The general of the local governor, the general of the sixteenth guard, did not look at the number of war horses every year, and he was so angry that he fought against each other for a few horses.

Li Shimin immediately made up the war horses needed by Luo Tong's Modao Army, who is not jealous and dissatisfied? Li Shimin annoyed the generals of the Tang Dynasty, and had to release cruel words: The war horse is one-seventh of Luo Tong's own capture, and you can share six-sevenths of the spoils of a seventeen-year-old boy with peace of mind, and you have to worry about it, you are not shy and I will blush for you. If you want a horse, you can grab it yourself.

As soon as these cruel words came out, Li Shimin's ears immediately got close.

Those generals, generals, and local governors were so embarrassed that they couldn't wait to find a crack to drill down, and after they went back one by one, they practiced like thunder, so hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Datang suffered, but in exchange for the doubling of combat power.

Luo Tong, who was a catfish once, just laughed when he heard it! It's not that he is greedy for the 10,000 horses, but he needs soldiers who are good at riding, good riding is the most basic requirement to go to the prairie to rob, the Tang army is congenitally deficient in riding, and the congenital deficiency can only be met through training, and training must have horses, otherwise everything is empty talk!

As soon as all the supplies were in place, large-scale training began.

After Luo Tong won the Xuanjia Army and 25,000 cavalry, as his mother's left guard, he trained according to Luo Tong's Mo Dao Formation, so the more than 7,000 soldiers who newly joined the Mo Dao Army were no strangers to the Mo Dao Formation.

There is a clear difference between the 3,000-person Mo Dao Formation and the 10,000-strong Mo Dao Array. A small array of Modao that is suitable for 3,000 people may not be suitable for a Modao array with more than 10,000 people. On this point, Luo Tong was still somewhat prescient. His research on the formation was still in the initial stage, and if he wanted to make a suitable Modao array, he had to rely on Li Shimin's help.

During this period of military training, Luo Tong focused on asking Li Shimin for advice on the key to the Modao Great Array. Li Shimin is like a god, looking at the entire early Tang Dynasty, only Li Jing can be compared, and his understanding of the army is beyond the reach of Luo Tong.

Li Shimin had already expected that in the case of a shortage of war horses, the Modao Formation was the first weapon to deal with the Turkic cavalry, so he did a lot of research in ordinary times. The understanding of the Mo Dao Formation completely surpasses Luo Tong, and it is even farther above Luo Tong in terms of formation.

He didn't hide Luo Tong's advice privately, not only instructed him to improve the Modao big array from the Modao small array, but also opened a small stove for him and instructed him on the method of marching and arranging the formation. However, Luo Tong's comprehension of the art of marching and arranging the formation is far inferior to the tactical tactics, although Li Shimin teaches by word and deed, but he only understands seven, seven, eight, eight.

This is also due to Luo Tong's character, as a character who takes the line of the brave war faction, he has a congenital weakness for the kind of detail of the war faction. How to deploy the Mo Dao Great Array, he still learned it, and it can be used on the Mo Dao Array.

On this day, Luo Tong continued to train in the barracks. didn't know that the court was already arguing.

It turned out that after Luo Tong's papermaking workshop had the children of the Mo family joined, the production process was improved again, and the daily output of new paper increased by 30%, after two months of full production, more than one million pieces of new paper were made, and more than 100,000 sheets were left after printing more than one million books.

The production capacity of new paper and books surprised Luo Tong and Li Shimin, both of whom felt that the time was ripe, and without waiting for the new paper to go on the market, Li Shimin announced in the court the construction of libraries in the Tang states, so that the people of the world could be educated.

Li Shimin is shrewd, he doesn't mention any poor scholars, let alone a family of door valves. It's just that starting from educating the people, there are not many people who say that the Tang Dynasty reads and writes, which is not a matter of dignity to the Heavenly Dynasty. It should be like the holy master Confucius, who has no class to teach and promote the culture of the Tang Dynasty, and the library is built just so that the people of the Tang Dynasty can have books to read.

Kong Yingda, Yu Zhining, Xu Wenyuan, these Confucian scholars, the first to get up and raise their hands and feet in favor, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, the eldest grandson Wuji, Gao Shilian, Su Shichang, Yao Silian, Xue Shui, Chu Liang, Yu Shinan, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chi Jingde, Hou Junji and other officials of Li Shimin's lineage have no objections, Wei Zheng, Wang Qi, Ouyang Xunyuan's former ministers also vaguely understand Li Shimin's intentions, and they also agree loudly.

All the bigwigs of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs unanimously agreed that the officials of the gate valve family who were marginalized in the upper and upper echelons of the court were powerless to stop it, and could only wipe their sweat vigorously, and after all, an official said: "Your Majesty, this building a library is indeed a great thing that will benefit the present generation, but I and I have a vast territory in the Tang Dynasty, if you want to build a library, the states and governments will add up to hundreds, the price of paper is amazing, and the cost of books is higher. The project is too big, and my Datang treasury is worried! ”

Li Shimin waved his hand and laughed: "My Datang treasury is indeed not abundant, but there are many ownerless mansions in various states and prefectures of Datang, as long as they are repaired, and the bookshelf and table are the Datang Library, one hundred taels in one state, and only ten thousand taels in one hundred states, which I can afford in Datang." As for books, I joined Luo Tong with the Mohist craftsman Shi Zhiguo to improve the papermaking technique, and created an ink history paper that is not inferior to rice paper. It can be said that except for the 10,000 taels of silver cakes and the tiny money of the library staff, the imperial court did not need to spend a penny. In addition, Rotong has improved the printing technique, and there are no problems with printing. Ink history paper will not be on the market soon, and you will know it by then! ”

Luo Tong named the new paper as ink history paper, the book named ink book, but also to join the Mo family Shi Zhiguo consent, "ink history" not only represents the Mo family and the history of the country, but also contains the meaning of the history of the Mo family, the new paper is of far-reaching significance, as the contemporary Mojia giant, Luo Tong will naturally not miss this opportunity to reshape the name of the Mo family through the ages.

The impact of the construction of libraries and the invention of ink and printing with movable type spread even more dramatically.

Especially among those poor scholars who want to study but have no money to study, it has caused a great shock, making Luo Tong's status among the poor scholars leap and bound, and he has become a figure admired by everyone, almost treating him as a reborn parent.

Luo Tong has never tried to read without a book, but this kind of thing was very common in ancient times, especially for scholars born in a poor family.

Hanmen is a general term that refers to poor and lowly families, and Hanmen scholars are scholars born in poor and lowly families. Such people often have the desire to learn, but are unable to learn.

Luo Tong's library project and the invention of movable type printing and paper gave them an opportunity to learn and hope to become talents.

This feeling Luo Tong couldn't understand, but this kindness, Luo Tong who was walking on the street felt it, and people who knew him stepped forward to say hello, some words were not clearly said, but the emotions revealed in the other party's eyes made him feel different.

When public opinion reached its peak, the paper shop officially opened in mid-June.

As Luo Tong expected, as soon as the ink history paper was listed, it immediately caused a sensation in Chang'an, and there were two articles. Extremely cheap, but only slightly inferior to rice paper, such things immediately caused a sensation throughout Chang'an.

In order to prevent large-scale purchases by large households, it is specially stipulated that only ten tickets can be bought at a time, and no one is an exception, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Even with such restrictions, the inventory of 130,000 sheets was still sold out within two days, which shows what a buying frenzy Mo Shizhang has caused in Chang'an.

A two-text ink history paper in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty caused no less sensation than a hundred atomic bombs exploding at the same time. The paper produced by the workshop is in short supply, Luo Tong asked Mo Yu to take out forty percent of the daily output to make books, and the other sixty percent to sell in four paper stores in Chang'an, these ink history papers were bought out on the same day, and some readers even willingly waited all night in order to buy these papers.

In the face of this mysterious paper, Luo Tong did not hide behind the scenes, but stood up and directly said that this new type of paper was invented by him and the Mohist craftsman Shi Zhiguo, and there was nothing to hide.

Rather than letting people find out that he secretly contacted Shi Zhiguo, and then caught the handle, it is better to tell the world clearly. He is friends with Shi Zhiguo. It's a friendship to get together, but it's Shi Zhiguo who opens the store, not him Luotong, so it's not a crime, and there are no ulterior secrets between them. People are like this, the more you seem to be secretive, the more people care, and if you make it clear directly, no one cares.