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In the city of Chengdu, Wang Yuan lives a busy, fulfilling and comfortable life. In September, Li Xin'er was about to give birth to a boy for Wang Yuan as she wished. The joy of the Wang family can be imagined. Even the people of Jiannan Road and Longyou Road were very happy when they learned that Wang Dashuai had given birth to a son.

Wang Yuan doesn't care, people from the new world don't have much prejudice against men and women, but for being in Datang, the arrival of this boy makes people feel that Wang Yuan's life has been fulfilled. It is true that Wang Yuan should indeed be satisfied, if there is no upcoming chaos in the world, Wang Yuan's life will be much more comfortable and relaxed. And now, he can't. The birth of his son brought him a greater sense of responsibility, and he had the responsibility to do better and protect this little life that he had brought him into this world.

News of An Lushan's rebellion arrived in Jiannan on November 17. That evening, Wang Yuan was having time to sit in the flower hall with his one-month-old son in his arms, talking and laughing with his wives and concubines. When Zhao Qing hurriedly came and told Wang Yuan the news, Wang Yuan was shocked and almost threw his son away.

Although he had been mentally prepared, although he had been actively preparing for this matter, when the news of An Lushan's rebellion came, Wang Yuan's surprise was still indescribable. I've thought about a confusing question countless times. Since I don't belong to this era, the history of this era should not go according to the original script. However, in the past few years, Wang Yuan realized that he was wrong in this way. Instead of changing, history seems to move forward with a distorted acceleration. Everything came too fast and too violently, and people were caught off guard.

For example, this rebellion in An Lushan, according to historical facts, should be six years later in the fourteenth year of Tianbao. And now it is only eight years after Tianbao, and An Lushan is already full of wings to launch a rebellion. And he could have had plenty of time to prepare for this chaos, but he had to meet it in a hurry. Fortunately, I have long been aware of this, and for the past two years, all my basic principles of conduct have revolved around this chaos.

Since last year, Yang Guozhong's various behaviors after becoming the prime minister indicate that An Lushan will rise up at any time. Fortunately, An Lushan endured it for nearly two years, because he was not completely ready. And it is the precious time of these two years that has given Wang Yuan the opportunity to actively develop.

The current Jiannan Army and Longyou Army have a full strength of 125,000 troops. In terms of cavalry, the cavalry troops under the command of Liu Jun have reached 50,000 people, basically reaching the number of cavalry and infantry required by Wang Yuan, including 5,000 heavy cavalry and 300 elephant cavalry. In terms of infantry, according to Wang Yuan's vision, nearly 40,000 people have achieved the integration of far and near, that is, equipped with bows and arrows and close-quarters blades, which can be attacked from afar, and can be melee combated, and the organic combination of modularity of multiple arms can form an organic battle sequence in a short time.

This is not enough, because the measures to encourage joining the army are effective, and there are still many redundant soldiers after the recruitment is full, so Wang Yuan simply re-established the regiment training. Combined with the regimental training system that had already been carried out before, two reserve systems of nearly 40,000 troops were established. When he lost his troops, Wang Yuan would rush these 40,000 people into the army in a short time. And the regimental training soldiers and horses who regularly maintain military training can also quickly enter the role and become qualified Jiedu soldiers and horses.

In addition, the heavy siege equipment has also formed a relatively large scale, and the two armies of Hexi and Jiannan currently have 3,000 siege catapults, more than 500 siege vehicles and rushing vehicles, 300 Fuyuan crossbows, and 10,000 detachable and docking ladders designed by Wang Yuan himself. Two hundred collapsible moat assault pontoons. These are just conventional siege equipment, and the biggest secret is the Shenwei cannon in the artillery camp. Although the number of Shenwei guns has only increased to 220 due to the cost of the gun, the main parts have been updated to metal parts, which can be used for a longer period of time, which is more convenient for transportation, maintenance and assembly, and can avoid the chance of damage caused by wooden components.

In addition, the Shenwei cannon has been modified in terms of range. The original Shenwei cannon used the fall of the counterweight to drive the launch of the throwing rod, and the counterweight was of a fixed weight, so the control of the range could only be solved by firing different types of thunderbolts. Now the improved counterweight system uses weights to add or decrease weight to control the launch distance. This allows for more flexible control of the range. The detachable stacked bronze castings are used as counterweights, which not only make up for the fragmentation damage and difficult adjustment of the original bluestone for the counterweights, but also make the counterweights easy to disassemble and transfer because of the reduced volume and disassembly. This is a big step forward in mobility.

Thunderbolts were also improved, and clay pot thunderbolts gradually withdrew from the Jiannan Arsenal's manufacturing sequence because they were too easy to break and required a lot of manual firing. Too much time is consumed in between. Now Wang Yuan uses iron shells, which have a higher safety factor when transporting iron ammunition, and after the counterweight of the Shenwei gun is stacked and detachable, the specifications of the ammunition have also been unified. After the pouring mold is formed, the uniform specifications of the shell can form a streamlined operation, which greatly speeds up the manufacturing speed. Also, after switching to iron, the Thunderbolt has an increased capacity and does not need to be filled with too many contents to increase the power of the explosion. Because the fragments of the bursting iron shell are good killers, which can replace the iron sheets, thistles and other substances that were originally added to the ammunition.

Of course, the cost of ammunition has also increased a lot, the increase in the cost of drugs has led to an increase in costs, and the cost of pig iron is also very high. However, compared with the cost, the improved explosion power, range and flexibility have been greatly improved, and the increased cost of 30% is still extremely cost-effective. Of course, the cost has only increased by 30%, thanks to Liu Xunzhi's credit. While hoarding grain and cloth, he also collected iron tools according to Wang Yuan's request. After befriending the owner of a government-run iron mine in the southeast, he bribed him a large amount of low-cost pig iron ingots. Although this kind of behavior that harms the public and private interests is not good, Wang Yuan chose to turn a blind eye. Because he needs them so badly.

In terms of city defense construction, in the past two years, under Wang Yuan's compulsory order, the city defense of more than a dozen major state capitals in Jiannan and Longyou has been greatly strengthened. The city walls were heightened and widened, the moats were dug wide and deep, many arrow towers were built at the head of the city, and several urn cities were also built, which basically improved the city defense of some state capitals that were originally extremely weak.

In terms of material reserves, the 20 granaries and material warehouses in Chengdu Prefecture are close to full, and in two years, Liu Xunzhi filled these granaries with cheap grain and cotton and linen cloth for Wang Yuan, and the grain reserves have reached an astonishing amount of 7 million stones. This is also the ideal number in Wang Yuan's mind. With so much food, Wang Yuan no longer has to worry about the problem of military rations, and these grains will become grains of gold, which will come in handy when necessary.

Overall, Wang Yuan seems to be idle in the past two years, but he has actually done a lot of trivial things. For these trivial matters, Wang Yuan can be said to have broken his heart and said it openly. Many times, the people under him didn't understand why Wang Yuan did this, and Wang Yuan couldn't say it clearly, so he could only force them to do it, which also caused many contradictions and incomprehension. But Wang Yuan believes that this contradiction and incomprehension will turn into admiration and worship over time, because he is the only one in the world who knows that An Lushan is going to rebel, the world is going to be in chaos, and all preparations are necessary.

Of course, all this also made Wang Yuan almost bankrupt. The three million guan money borrowed from Mrs. Qin Guo had been spent a year earlier. This also includes the 800,000 guan profits generated by the salt mines. After that, Wang Yuan had to negotiate with the wealthy families in Jiannan and Longyou, and forced them to borrow money in the name of himself and the imperial court. In the end, Wang Yuan began to use a so-called golden coupon to issue blank checks to these wealthy businessmen.

The so-called gold coupon is that Wang Yuan issued a kind of bond with usury interest at maturity in three years with the guarantee of Jiannan and Longyou's finance and taxes. Of course, Wang Yuan formulated some detailed rules for this, that is, the dividend that can be cashed out after three years of purchasing 10,000 gold coupons is 11,000 yuan. 50,000 guan can get 20%, and 100,000 guan can get 30%. Wang Yuan doesn't care whether such an interest rate is reasonable or not, he just uses these blank checks to attract money. These half-coercive, half-luring methods allowed Wang Yuan to raise another two million Guan people's wealth. In two years, a huge sum of more than 6 million yuan was spent, which is simply staggering.

Of course, Wang Yuan's outrageous behavior, naturally some people stabbed the court to denounce, but in the past two years, the court first liquidated Li Linfu by Yang Guozhong, and because Yang Guozhong fought with An Lushan, there was a lot of trouble, and he had no time to care about Wang Yuan's. Yang Guozhong just let Chen. Xilie gave Wang Yuan a warning in the name of the political affairs hall, telling Wang Yuan not to mess around, not to make the resentment of Jiannan and Longyou boiling, but these words were all forgotten by Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan still has one last method that has not been implemented, if this method is implemented, I am afraid that it will scare everyone's souls. Wang Yuan planned that if he really reached the point where he had no money to do things, he would carry out a big liquidation against the wealthy in Jiannan and Longyou. This kind of reckoning has only one purpose, to kill people and rob their families, and kill their own wealth. At a critical time, Wang Yuan will never be soft, he will try any way.

Fortunately, Wang Yuan didn't have a chance to use this method. An Lushan is opposed, and it is the right time to rebel, otherwise Wang Yuan may really arouse a lot of public resentment in Jiannan and Longyou.

The holy envoy of the imperial court arrived late the next morning after Wang Yuan learned the news. But this does not affect Wang Yuan's judgment of the matter. Wang Yuan had already discussed this matter with his generals all night, and everyone thought that they were afraid that the Jiannan Army and the Longyou Army were about to be dispatched to quell the rebellion, and even Wang Yuan was ready to go out at any time. However, the content of the holy decree surprised Wang Yuan.