In July of the seventh year of Tianbao, Zhao Ziliang was busy with the comprehensive deepening and reorganization of the Han Navy, a new round of intensive training was launched and in full swing, the soldiers were not afraid of the scorching heat, the entire Han Navy barracks were in full swing, the morale was high, and no one wanted to lose face between soldiers and soldiers, officers and officers, and generals and generals. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, at this moment, Wang Can, the commander of the Han Navy Scout Battalion and the head of the Tianyan Spy Network, brought Zhao Ziliang the latest news of the imperial court.

"General, the news that just came from Chang'an today is not urgent information, so the message transmission channel uses a conventional way, so the time is a little slower."

Zhao Ziliang held the handle of the waist knife, watched the soldiers of each battalion on the school field practice, and said after listening to Wang Can's report: "Oh? What is the news? ”

Wang Can said: "On the second day of the first month of April, the general of the left prison guard, the governor of the province, Gao Lishi, and the hussar general, were in awe at home and abroad. It is reported that the prince also calls him a brother, the princes call him a weng, and the concubines call him a lord. Li Linfu, An Lushan and others all thought they would be prime ministers because of it. Gaolishi built Baoshou Temple outside Chang'an City, the temple fell into the bell, when celebrating, the officials and nobles gathered together, the bell once had to give money to a hundred (through), there are flatterers to strike the bell 20 times, the least also hit the bell 10 times! ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled and shook his head when he heard this: "This Gao Lishi・・・・・・ although Gao Lishi is in power, but he is gentle and cautious, and he is kind to others. Any other news? ”

Wang Can said: "After Gao Lishi was added to the hussar general, An Lushan was given an iron coupon by the emperor!" According to the news from our inside line in the palace, An Lushan is quite good at amusement, and the concubine often summons him into the palace to talk and amuse, and often dances with him, and the emperor is very happy!"

"Iron coupons?" Zhao Ziliang's face turned cold, "It seems that the rise of this fat pig is unstoppable!" Why hasn't Li Linfu, the old ghost, died? ”

Although Li Linfu has almost no achievements in politics, Zhao Ziliang also has to admire the power and scheming skills of this person, and almost all of the capable ministers and famous generals inside and outside the court have been killed or disabled by him, and some of the remaining people are all ordinary people.

After half a ring, Zhao Ziliang suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "Is there any other news?" ”

Wang Can said: "Yang Zhao's relocation department is in the middle of the matter, in the imperial history, and the branch is judged. The three elder sisters of the concubine Niangniang were canonized as Mrs. Korea, Mrs. Qiuguo and Mrs. Qin. The three human rights are all over the world, and they are pampered and bribe-taking. The king of Yunnan (King of Nanzhao) Pi Luo Ge died, and his eldest son Ge Luo Feng (adopted son) succeeded to the throne because of Wen Tao Wuluo, and the second son Chengjie failed in the seizure of the heir, was expelled and his whereabouts are unknown! In May, Ge Shuhan built a Shenwei army on the shore of Xihai Lake, and Tubo came to attack, but was defeated by Ge Shuhan's troops! ”

Zhao Ziliang sighed: "Li Linfu, this old ghost is not dead yet, and now the Yang family, which is a relative of the emperor, is about to rise again, and the Tang Dynasty is about to enter a stormy time!" It seems that we are going to step up the pace of army expansion and training! ”

Wang Can arched his hand and said: "What the general said is very true, if you don't prepare early, then the world will be in chaos, and we will be caught off guard!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked: "From last year to this year, how many people have we moved from the mainland?" How many households? How much is conscription? ”

Wang Canyu reported: "There are more than 56,000 people one after another, with about 36,000 men and only about 20,000 women. There are about 18,000 households in total, and these are all displaced people who have lost their land in various parts of our country, and in recent years, the land has been seriously annexed, and the people have lost their land seriously, and they are only afraid that there will be more and more people who have lost their land in the future! In the past year and a half, we have recruited 18,000 soldiers from the interior, and in addition to the 7,000 people captured by Xilin, the remaining 11,000 people are now all arranged to practice around Xilin Guard, but because they exceed the establishment stipulated by the imperial court, they are not counted as soldiers, and they have no name, and they can only be paid by the general himself."

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Wang Can: "Tell me to go down, the matter of recruiting soldiers in the mainland will be stopped for the time being, but the matter of recruiting displaced people cannot be stopped, as long as there are people willing to come, they will all be accepted!" The matter of recruiting soldiers can not continue any longer, recruiting too many soldiers will attract the attention of the imperial court, but recruiting displaced people will not, if we want to recruit soldiers, we can completely recruit from the displaced people who come here, as long as there is a good military salary, there will definitely be people who are tempted."

Wang Can arched his hand and said: "My subordinates understand!" ”

In the evening, Zhao Ziliang returned to his home in the city from the barracks, and as soon as he entered the door, the housekeeper Wang Ru greeted him: "The general is back!" Brehan came, waiting in the lobby, as if he had something important to report to the general! ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang was stunned for a moment, thought about it and instructed Wang Ru: "Go and change your clothes, you take him to the study and wait for so-and-so!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang came to the study after removing his armor and changing into his regular clothes, Brehan was already waiting in the study, he saw Zhao Ziliang coming in, and immediately got up and saluted: "General! ”

Zhao Ziliang closed the door and pressed his hand: "Sit down!" ”

When Zhao Ziliang walked to the desk and sat down, Brehan sat down, and Zhao Ziliang asked, "You are not in Xilin to guard and sit in the town, what are you doing in Tingzhou?" ”

"The stakes are so high, the last general will have to come in person!" Brehan said as he took out a red stone from his bosom and handed it over, "General, look at this!" ”

Zhao Ziliang took the red stone, felt his hand sink, he immediately changed his face, and leaned closer to the lamp to take a closer look, only to see the red stone flickering brightly.

Zhao Ziliang put the stone under his nose and sniffed it, his eyes froze, and he raised his head and said, "This is hematite, where did it come from?" ”

Brehan showed joy and said, "The last general was not sure before, but he didn't expect it to be an iron mine!" This is a He Luoshi herdsman to Xilin Shou to catch the city stall as a strange stone to sell, when the end of the general happened to pass, found that the color of the stone is not ordinary, so buy back for Gao and Cen Lord to see, Cen Lord said that it is very likely to be iron ore, so the last general found a blacksmith, several blacksmiths said that they have not seen this color of iron ore, but they all suspect that it is likely to be iron ore, so the last general will bring this stone to Tingzhou! ”

Zhao Ziliang kept flipping and checking the stone, and asked, "Has the source of this stone been found?" ”

Brehan nodded and said: "I found out, the last general sent someone to follow the Nahe Luoshi herdsmen to the foot of a mountain in Cheling, and only found the source of this stone under pressure, at the foot of a mountain at the northern foot of Cheling, the last general personally went to see it, the buried layer of this ore should not be deep, and some iron ore is exposed outside, which is very convenient for mining!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed and said: "Okay, great! With this iron ore vein, our weapons and iron armor can be completely self-sufficient, even if the imperial court does not escort weapons and arrows and armor over, we can also forge it ourselves, you immediately go back and organize prospecting technicians to go over to check the situation of the ore vein, let them find out how to mine! After arranging the affairs of the army, he rushed over in a few days."

"In that case, the last general will set off to Xilin overnight to guard and capture!" Brehan said as he got up and was about to leave.

Zhao Ziliang stopped him: "But it's not in a hurry, just have dinner here, rest for one night, I will ask them to prepare some dry food and meat for you, tomorrow morning you eat something and bring dry food and meat and then it's not too late!" ”

"The last general obeys!"

In the next few days, Zhao Ziliang supervised the reorganization and put it on the right track, and after explaining the affairs of the army to Chen Qing, Gong Ren, Dugujun, Liu Wei and others, he quickly rushed to Xilin with his own soldiers to guard and arrest.

When Brehan heard that Zhao Ziliang had arrived, he immediately took Gao Shi, Cen Shen, Zhao Hu and others to greet him.

"General, let's go to the Capture Mansion to rest first!"

Zhao Ziliang politely refused: "A certain person came out in a hurry, there are still many affairs to be dealt with in the army, and we can't delay it for too long here, let's go to the ore vein now, and after reading it, we have to rush back!" ”

"In that case, let's go!"

So, the group rushed to the foot of the northern foot of Cheling where the iron ore vein is located, and everyone hurried for a day's journey, and finally arrived at the location of the iron ore vein at dusk.

Because it was late, and Cheling belonged to the branch vein of the Tianshan Mountains, the wind here was strong at night, the temperature dropped quickly, and the light in the mountains was not good, so it was not clear to see, so Zhao Ziliang and others could only rest near the vein for one night. The house where I lived was a temporary military tent set up by the Xilin Guards, but it had sheepskin mattresses, so I didn't feel cold at night.

After a night, early the next morning, Zhao Ziliang got up very early, practiced martial arts for two hours as usual, washed up, had breakfast, and came to the location of the ore vein under the guidance of Brehan and others.

The rocky hillside is full of open-pit red iron ore, Zhao Ziliang knows that the main component of this red iron ore is ferric oxide, which makes Zhao Ziliang happy that it is actually an open-pit mine.

Zhao Ziliang asked, "Where is the prospecting technician?" Can you speculate on how much iron ore reserves there are? ”

An old man with a white beard lifted his robe and bowed down and was about to kneel, Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and said, "No need to be polite, you just say it!" ”

"The villain obeys!" The old man put down the hem of his robe and said: "General, according to Xiao Lao'er's prospecting experience, this ore reserve is definitely not small, as for the specific reserves, Xiao Lao'er can't calculate it, but Xiao Lao'er can guarantee that as long as it is not mined indiscriminately and a reasonable mining hole is carried out, this iron ore vein should be able to be mined for more than a hundred years!" ”

"Is that true?" A hint of surprise flashed on Zhao Ziliang's face, and he immediately asked.

The old man said with a straight face: "Little old man dares to vouch for his head!" ”

Zhao Ziliang doesn't believe this, I don't know how many years you old thing can live, maybe you'll burp tomorrow, you use the head to guarantee a fart? But he could also see that this old thing should still be very confident in his own inference. (To be continued.) )