After a day of hunting, Li Yu and the others returned to Anshi with rich loot. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The two little white tigers are cute, and the three daughters of Xin'er are hugged in their arms and can't leave their hands, and Xin'er also named them Xue Jin and Xue Lin.

In order to raise these two little white tigers and remove the wild nature that may appear in them as they grow up, we now feed them the milk that they have been able to get with great difficulty, and feed them cooked food when they can eat meat, so as to develop a habit.

Not long after Li Yu returned to the city, Sima Xue Jun, who had just returned from southern Liaoning today, immediately came to ask for a meeting.

"Xue Sanyang, I'm back so soon, presumably the matter of the whole army in the three states of southern Liaoning is okay, right?"

Xue Jun and Xue Yao are both brothers, but the latter is the eldest brother and the former is the third brother. In the first year of Linde, he was drafted on behalf of Tang Gaozong to abolish the edict, offended his mother, was framed for rebellion, and was imprisoned and executed.

Both brothers are very shrewd and capable, probably because Xue Jun is seven or eight years older than Li Yu, and the difference in age is not too great, and there are many common topics, and Li Yu got to know him at a very young age. Therefore, when Li Yu opened the mansion, the two brothers were both officials of the Yanwang Mansion, but Xue Jun's official position was higher than that of the eldest brother.

For several years, Xue Jun was a member of Li Yu's cronies among the subordinate officials of the royal palace, and was relied on as his right-hand man along with Sima Li Yuan in handling government affairs.

"Your Highness, the whole army is going very well." Xue Jun smiled lightly and said: "The original Liaonan Sanzhou Thorn History has a total of 5,000 soldiers and horses, and after more than ten days of rectification, it can be used by our army. The middle and senior generals in the original army were still entrusted with their original positions according to His Royal Highness's orders, but only a few hundred soldiers were left in their hands, so they could only suppress the people in the city. The remaining 4,000 soldiers and horses were all drawn out to Anshi City, and they were trained together with the newly recruited Liaodong recruits and then mixed into an army. ”

"We've got four more available soldiers!" Li Yu sighed with satisfaction, and then said with some distress: "For these new troops recruited from Liaodong, the appointment of generals is another troublesome problem. ”

When the Tang Dynasty vassal king was appointed as the highest local military and political governor, if he was young, the local military and political affairs led by the vassal king were all in charge of the royal governor. Li Yu is the governor of Youzhou, but now he is not in Youzhou, and Li Yuanzi, who was originally in charge of Youzhou affairs, still stays in Youzhou to deal with the affairs of the Governor's Mansion.

Then as the second person in the civil system of handling government affairs in the Yan Palace, Xue Jun plays an important role.

"Then it depends on whether His Highness wants to form these Liaodong local soldiers into a separate army, or does he want to directly mix them with the existing army to form an army?"

"Of course, it was a separate army, and Liaodong fell into Murong Xianbei first and then Goguryeo in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty. As far as the local Han people are concerned, although they still recognize themselves as Han Chinese, their centripetal force towards China is no longer as strong as it was hundreds of years ago. Otherwise, the cities on the east bank of the Liao River would not have resisted my Tang Dynasty so fiercely. ”

Li Yu frowned and continued: "So it is impossible for us to use these local Han soldiers in Liaodong without defense now, it is more conducive for us to guard against them by forming an army alone, and if there is an incident, it will not affect the whole army." As for the lieutenant generals of this Liaodong local army, the generals at the brigade commander level and above are appointed by removing soldiers and middle- and low-level officers who have made previous military achievements from the existing army. ”

"Forming an ......army alone," Xue Jun sat on the collapse and touched his chin and said, "This is not bad, and the possible threats are contained in a small area." ”

The palace talked about the current situation in Liaodong between Li Yu and Xue Jun and discussed how to deal with it. As far as the 24,000 local soldiers from Liaodong who arrived in Anshi were concerned, Li Yu formed an army alone with a cautious attitude, but this was not a long-term solution.

Tens of thousands of fellow villagers are grouped together, and it is no problem for a short time, but after a long time, problems will eventually arise, and various benefits will arise in the war. Li Yu did not want to see such an army, which he regarded as unstable, finally come together to form a military group composed of locals in Liaodong.

When the Goguryeo rebels were annihilated and the situation in Liaodong was stabilized and effective rule was established, Li Yu planned to mix these local soldiers in Liaodong with the young men recruited from the disaster victims who would later move from the interior of the Tang Dynasty to form a new army. Realizing the situation that the newly formed army was dominated by people from the mainland of the Tang Dynasty and the local Han soldiers in Liaodong accounted for a minority, that is, the contact between the local Han soldiers in Liaodong and the Han people in other regions of China was increased, which was more conducive to their reintegration into China.

Xue Jun, who was about to leave, suddenly thought of something and turned around and said, "Your Highness, there is one more thing. Today, after returning from southern Liaoning, there happened to be a letter sent back by Zhang Gensheng about the progress of iron ore mining. ”

As soon as Li Yu came back from this letter, the people in the government had already seen it with the scriptures, and the progress of iron ore mining could be said to be the top priority that Li Yu was most concerned about now, and he had already made some calculations in his heart.

"I want to take a look at the iron mine and leave tomorrow. After I left, Xue Sanyang temporarily took over the affairs of the capital. ”

"No!"

More than 10,000 Goguryeo Qingzhuang captured by Zhang Shi were escorted to the area where Zhang Gensheng discovered iron ore in the south of Anshan and Liaodong City in the later generations. It's been a while, so I guess how can iron ore be mined!

Early the next morning, Li Yu went straight to Dagu Mountain under the escort of Xue Ne and five hundred Yanyun Iron Cavalry.

It is only more than 60 miles from Anshi to Dagu Mountain, and it will take half a day to get there.

When Li Yu arrived, he was greeted by a bare hill that was no more than 200 meters high, and many people on the mountain were working like ants, and the sound of digging and knocking stones could be heard by Li Yu and his party several miles away.

There is a small rectangular city with a width of more than 700 meters, which is close to the small river in the west. It seems that this is the small city that Zhang Gensheng proposed to build at the foot of the mountain to be used for the residence of the mine personnel and the ironworks.

I didn't expect Zhang Gensheng to move quite fast, and he built this city in less than a month, but the city wall is not high, only seven or eight meters long, and the typical rammed earth construction is not a strong city. Dagushan can also be regarded as a large rear under the control of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and it is not very likely to be attacked by the enemy.

What's more, half of the Yanyun Iron Cavalry Right Guard Army led by Zhang Shi was stationed here to guard those Goguryeo slave laborers, no matter how you look at it, there will be no danger.

It's just that an elite cavalry like Yanyun Tieqi is used to watch a group of slave laborers, and the typical cattle knife used to kill chickens made Li Yu feel pain for a while. However, there were not enough soldiers and horses in his hands, so he could only let Yanyun Iron Cavalry, who was a mobile force, first assign a part of the soldiers and horses to take over, and after a month, he would be replaced by other soldiers and horses to take charge.

"Who's coming?" Dozens of light horsemen rushed out from the small hill on one side and rushed towards Li Yu and his party.

"His Royal Highness King Yan is coming, hurry up and greet him!"

The cavalry who was on guard ran over to take a look, and sure enough, it was King Yan, and they all dismounted and saluted, and after receiving Li Yu's exemption, they sent a person back to inform the general Zhang Shi.

"Hahaha! Your Highness, why are you here in person! Zhang Shide rode out of the city barracks on horseback after the report, and his loud voice came from afar.

"The iron ore is very important, I have to come and take a look, lest you mess up!" Li Yu smiled, and didn't care whether Zhang Shi saluted or not. Except for the civil officials who taught dogma among the subordinate officials of the original royal palace, most of the military attachés were mixed with Li Yu so much that they did not distinguish between you and me, and they did not take the concept of respect and inferiority to heart in private.

"Your Highness, can't you still trust my Lao Zhang? Look at this city, in twenty days, I forced those lazy worms to build it! Zhang Shi laughed and boasted proudly.

"Your Highness, enter the city and take a look at the masterpiece of my old supervisor Zhang!"

Li Yu and his entourage were welcomed into this newly built small city by Zhang Shi, and when they entered the city, they saw that only a few buildings in the city were located due north.

Most of them were tents, simple barracks scattered in the southeastern part of the city, fenced off from the periphery by a fence built of thick tree poles.

There is also a small barracks in the northeast corner, close to a few poor buildings, and the tents in the camp are neat and orderly.

There was also a small barracks in the northwest corner, and there was also a wooden fence, but it was not as tall and thick as the camp in the southwest corner, which made Li Yu a little interested.