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"Please also ask the army/town marshal/marshal/envoy to complete one or two"

Looking at their eager expressions in unison, I felt as if I heard a voice roaring in the void

"Buy, buy, buy, chop off your hands if you don't buy......"

"Eight arrows and eight stars, whether there is one or not, as long as 398"

Of course, this time, Luo Fan fell in love with the artillery that played a big role in the battle to conquer the city.

Although in order to let my artillery team break its promise and join the sequence of attacking the city, the other side has already issued an additional military fee of at least 2,000 yuan per day.

But apparently they are more interested in acquiring and using this mass killing weapon themselves. So, I just made a little bit of a mouth, and it provoked such a reaction.

Of course, I can also imagine and understand their feelings and interests. At least in the eastern and western parts of Liaoning, and even in the northern part of Pinglu Dao, the most are mountains and hills, and even continuous mountain ranges, as well as the large and small walled city passes that have been followed and established in accordance with these terrain victories in successive dynasties.

You must know that it is these continuous mountain city systems that once dragged down most of the armies of Emperor Yang of Sui and Goryeo, and also made the results of Tang Taizong's two eastward crusades unfinished and had to stop and retreat in the face of the harsh winter.

As the largest force in Anton, after Luo Fan has this kind of weapon, whether it is used to conquer and uproot dangerous points, or to erect a few doors to guard the key points on the wall, it can undoubtedly play a role in strengthening the wings of a tiger.

Therefore, even if it is a small cannon that can only fire shots, they can also get a high price of 800 yuan, which is 760,000 wen when exchanged for copper coins.

You must know that with the gradual exploration and improvement of materials and processes, this kind of all-iron small cannon with an inner chamber that is easy to wear has been replaced by a scattering cannon with a more solid and durable tube body and a thinner and longer soft steel interchamber.

The revolver cannon, which was originally used to fire lead, was also renamed the zero-type retractor.

Therefore, the specific production cost is less than one-tenth of this quotation, which is the advantage of standardized scale production capacity under the industrial base.

The four-inch short field cannon with copper tires and iron bore of the mountain version of the horse can be sold at a sky-high price of 2,000 yuan. If it's a long-barreled standard version with a gun mount, or a lightweight-reduced cavalry version, it's 3,000 yuan.

Although this price is a bit expensive in the official quotation full of cats in the Southern Dynasty Daliang, if you add the transportation of the sea route and the difficulty of obtaining it within the national dynasty, it is not too expensive to get there.

In other words, after the defeat of the old enemy Xue clan, the princes of Andong led by the Luo Domain, who also had a serious loss of strength, will have no strong opponents in the short term, and will enter a period of rule left by digestion, recuperation or hard work, and the stage of gathering strength.

During this period, if the corresponding number of artillery can be relied on, then with less troops and other inputs, a relatively solid outer defense line can be re-established. This plus and minus gain is not comparable and can be replaced by the huge cost of purchasing artillery.

They have a taste of recklessness, and directly take real gold and silver as a deposit, and some of the gold and silver objects used to weigh are obviously still with Roche's inscriptions or the fineness of those that have been stored for many years. It looks like he's taken out of his old books.

Of course, in terms of artillery, you may consider selling some old goods, anyway, if this thing does not form a sufficient scale and quantity, it is difficult to show its advantages. And the other party bought it back under the fact that there are more monks and less porridge, and they will definitely not be used in a special concentration.

Moreover, the corresponding artillery rules and specifications, tactical concepts and military skills, experience in use and technical parameters and other details, and even the coordination of supporting arms can not be bought casually with money.

After all

This is also an inseparable part of modern army construction under the background of the support of the primary industrial base, and it is not a traditional force full of feudal colors like Luo Fan, which can be easily mastered and used.

Subsequently, I met Luo Zhanji, the lord of the domain, who was obviously a little uncertain and could not hide his fatigue but his face was flushed.

"I need to be supervised and witnessed as a third party......

"Give the Xue clan in the city one last chance to surrender? ……”

I looked at the other party with some surprise, it was hard to imagine that after such an incident, he still had enough determination and courage to make such a decision against public opinion.

Of course, there are many conditions. The most fundamental is one, as the home of the top vassals who have pacified Anton for generations,

At the cost of handing over the golden seals and honor guards of the previous dynasties, and giving the main members of the upper echelons of the Xue family to drink medicine and commit suicide to preserve the dignity of the family cemetery where their bodies were buried.

It is necessary to ensure the personal safety of all the remaining Xue clan members, subordinates, and relatives except for the main family members within three generations; Then, under the custody of Luo Fan, all men, women, and children were exiled to the cave island (Sakhalin Island) of the Ghost Country, and it was supervised by the Guwei Department.

Of course, although there are sequelae in the long run, for Luo Fan at this stage, the significance of the complete surrender of the Xue clan as an old enemy must be greater than the martyrdom of the city or the fight to the last young man, and give those scattered Xue vassals the reason and excuse to remember, and so on.

In addition, Luo Zhanji also continued to say that after the war, he intended to cede to me the Huaizhen forces, which were located in the southern two states of western Liaoning, as a follow-up payment;

However, these two states are located at the northern end of the Liaoning West Corridor, although there are large coastal flatlands and relatively densely populated areas, and the sea route from Huaidong is also very short; But if I really want to send someone to occupy it, it will really become the outer barrier of the Luo Domain, and the shield against Pinglu Dao.

This is a dignified and righteous conspiracy that drives Eli, and it is really difficult for people to make a choice for a while, and it is not so easy to make a decision.

At the beginning of my expedition, I didn't plan to jump into the big pit of western Liaoning, but just wanted to get some port and rights and interests convenience.

Finally, he mentioned one more thing in passing.

"There is someone from the Xue family, and you want to see me......"

What's going on, I'm a little confused.

"It's my business, I'm here to play soy sauce and beat the side drum, and it's not a tenacious ...... that can decide the overall situation."

Confused like this, I decided to meet the person on a conditional basis.

It was only after returning to the garrison of this army that a rather thick material was placed in front of me.

This is a preliminary assessment of the princes of Anton, including approximate data on property, resources, population, and mobilization potential.

It is also an important basis and basic data for future research and judgment on the dynamics and reactions of the princes of Andong led by Luo Fan. Among them, the most important and the most comprehensive collection is undoubtedly the ruling structure and political organization represented by Luo Fan.

Generally speaking, the feudal pastoral system headed by Andong Roche was not much different from the small feudal lords in the Silla domain, and even had some of the same origins.

For example, according to the simple level of counties, townships/market towns, and villages in the interior, there are city heads, township heads, town managers, and land heads/village heads under the leadership.

The lord of the city and above are called the city according to the size and the number of households, and the large one is called the city and the small one is called the city;

Take a few cities and a dozen cities as (large) states/? (Small) counties, compared with the system within the same country, are respectively represented by the size of the (state) assassin history, (county) Taishou, Changshi, Beijia, Sima, and the title of chief book, general judge, military member, and counselor;

In these places below the lord of the castle, they were either directly under the administration of the vassals appointed by the feudal family, or they were assigned to relatives and retainers at various levels, and existed as vassals of the nature of the feudal estate.

In exchange for the corresponding obligation of the other side to guard the frontier, open up the frontier, and even provide soldiers and armaments under the conscription of the family.

For example, as the lowest acting official, even if it is the smallest land, he has to send 20 people to serve the vassal family every year; In the largest land, not only must they be served, but they must also have a number of regular soldiers and auxiliaries who are armed according to the composition of one to three.

Moreover, because of the long-term turmoil and war, the corresponding land endowment is also very heavy, reaching almost half of the land production, which is still directly handed over to the land, excluding various local specialties and soil offerings.

Therefore, coupled with the many retro titles and systems of the layered structure, some of the ancient styles of the Spring and Autumn Period are strictly observed and reproduced.

It's just that in the geographical proximity, these princes who were the northern border domains were more likely to be affected and affected by the central political changes of the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, there are often examples of exiled clans or political losers who are forcibly named and imprisoned in the corners of the border in disguise.

For example, the assassin and military lieutenants appointed by the court and the central government were so dead that they could only spend all day drinking in their own back house and desperately trying to create people's clan lineage.

There have also been cases where the imperial court used a corner of the frontier military town to suppress and pacify disputes between princes, or uncontrollable chaos in the princes' territories, or to carry out a campaign to hang the people and attack a prince who refused to accept mediation.

Therefore, in the heyday of the Tang Weijia Sea,

Even the old princes and great feudal clans who had been in the domain for many years had to tremble under the huge shadow of the central dynasty, and carefully used the methods of endless tribute and sending their sons and daughters to serve all year round to curry favor and maintain this vassal relationship.

Therefore, on the contrary, the princes of the South China Sea, who are far away from the emperor of the sky, are much more at ease, and theoretically they can be like the emperor of the soil in their own territory, and enjoy the extreme pleasure of luxury.

As long as you don't go too far and make your retainers and countrymen complain, so much so that you rise up against the chaos, basically the country and the dynasty will not have much excuse or reason to interfere, or there is a need for the motive of the laborers to move people overseas.

As for the Tu tribe and Fannu under the leadership, even if there are many deaths, it has something to do with the big people in the court.

Despite this, under the operation and arrangement from the Nanhai Governor's Mansion to the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, the princes who were originally known as the 800 overseas families have been abolished and reduced through successive dynasties, and now there are two or three hundred scattered families led by the five veins and eight leaves.

In particular, during the Yongjia Great March, there were countless feudal families who died or disappeared on the thousands of miles of rout of the Western Army's eastward advance, resulting in the extinction of heirs from overseas continents and civil strife and strife.

The top feudal clan represented by the five veins and eight leaves has also been absorbed into the political level of the central court at the cost of sharing political rights and interests from generation to generation, and has become one of the many prominent and noble eunuchs of Guangfu. On the contrary, the original territory and hometown have gradually faded out and marginalized.

As a result, in the face of the squeeze and advance from the center of the imperial court, the overseas princes also joined forces to fight and rebound several times, and finally led to the establishment of the Zong Domain, a special existence in which overseas princes wrestled and coordinated with the center of the imperial court.

Although the changes over the generations, most of the time, the clan courtyard is a place of similar decorations and scenes, so that it is regarded as a well-paid place for people to live and retire, jokingly called "nursing home" and "corpse accumulation hospital", but there is one key, but it is always inconvenient.

That is, any edicts and edicts related to overseas feudal clans have no effect or righteousness in the territory unless they go through the process of deliberation of the clan court.

Therefore, in the Southern Dynasties, there are only two kinds of family gate valves in the real sense.

One is the system of honorable eunuchs who are shaded by the state, which represents the qualifications of political tears and many privileges in the economic and other fields, and is mainly concentrated in the power center represented by Guangfu.

The other is the vastness of the Outer Sea Domain, which is like half of the Tu Emperor's sub-vassals. Even the nobles of the Cantonese Mansion, no matter how much they looked down on them, had to retain certain feelings of envy and jealousy in private for their rights and conveniences.

Of course, there are also those who combine these two attributes and colors, but they are only a very small number of existences that can go to the top, and they are deeply tabooed and restricted by the shogunate authorities.

As for the so-called county lords in other places that lack these two attributes, they can only be regarded as local tyrants in front of them, that is, local tyrants for short.